Anthea Grimason

Hi, I'm Anthea, a yogi, end-of-life doula and educator, psychedelic facilitator and counselor in training. I'm dedicated to supporting your healing journey in life, death and grief, carrying the thread of all the teachers, healers, guides and death workers who have come before me. Ireland born and rooted, South East Asia sprouted and California blossomed, I come with a rich tapestry of wisdom to share, from ancestors, lands and teachers.

To live authentically, as our highest selves takes work and an effort to turn towards the hard stuff. I'm here to guide you. This has been my own life's work and so I know the courage required. But we all deserve to live a life of joy, free from shame and trauma, and to take that final exhale, when the time comes, in comfort and peace without regret or fear.

Through this work I'm also motivated to address the silence, fear and stigma around illness and death in our society. We've lost connection to the natural ways of caring for each other and being with death and grief. It's time to return home to our innate wisdom and teachers of the earth and ancestors.

My path to this work was shaped by the death of my mother when I was only two years old. I often contemplated death as a child with nowhere for my grief to go, yet I gained a deep wisdom about the fragility of life at a very young age. Early experiences left me feeling strongly that we can do so much better in how we honor and support people through death and loss beyond medical models and social constructs where death is hidden and grief is silenced or stigmatized. Exploring Eastern approaches to mortality sparked a shift in my perspective, and the moment I learned about end-of-life doulas, I knew this was my calling and a path to better deathcare. I am passionate about weaving ancestral wisdom back into our modern approaches to death, creating a bridge where we face our mortality with truth, awe and compassion. "