What is a Good Life? #38 - Breath, Death & Spirit with Anthea Grimason

On the 38th episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to have Anthea Grimason as our guest. Anthea is a Death Doula, Reiki Master, Certified Yoga & Breath Teacher, as well as a Psychedelic Guide, focusing on the research and healing impact psychedelics are having on people at all stages of life, including facing death.

In this episode, Anthea shares with us her journey of studying various philosophies and practicing numerous spiritual methods across several continents. We discuss how losing her mother at a young age, as well as her studies of Eastern Philosophies, has made her more comfortable with death throughout her life and guided her toward her present work. Anthea also delves into a number of her profound experiences of working with the dying as well as significant moments from her own life when she felt connected with spirit and guided by a deeper intuition.

We also reflect on our experiences with, and perspectives on, psychedelics, as well as elements of research that are being done in terms of their impact on people at the end of their life.

If you're taking life for granted and going through the motions, or you're feeling disconnected from yourself and your intuition, this episode will give you plenty to contemplate and provides numerous perspectives, anecdotes, and methods for you to consider.

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Running Order:

02:25 Would I be ready to die tomorrow?

06:32 Getting comfortable with death

09:24 Experiences at the end of life

13:00 Immense energy at the end of life

17:10 Huge shifts with Yoga, Reiki and Meditation

20:50 Thoughts on where we go after death

23:49 Why are we here?

25:45 The path to being a death doula

33:10 Being guided by intuition, cultivating intuition

35:40 The importance of spiritual health not only emotional, physical, and mental health

42:08 Psychedelics and death

50:09 The importance of inner-work around psychedelics

59:19 Summary of the conversation

1:00:04 What is a good life for Anthea?


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- Anthea's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthea-grimason-390b6125/

- Anthea's website: http://www.lifedeathbreath.com/

What is What is a Good Life??

A project to help you realise you are enough, by noticing and inhabiting life more fully.
What Is a Good Life? is a long-form conversation project exploring how people actually live, feel, and make meaning of their lives. Over the past four years, I’ve sat with more than 300 people — artists, parents, executives, wanderers, therapists, and strangers and invited them into a simple but profound inquiry, "What is a good life for you?"
The conversations explore presence, paradox, uncertainty, and the moments that shape a life - love and loss, trust and fear, clarity and not knowing. It’s an invitations to slow down, to listen deeply, and to bring you into conversation with your own life. There are new episodes every Tuesday.