5 Questions #12: Naila

It's April 5th, 2020...This podcast is landing during a week when so many of us are holding anxiety, fear and exhaustion...and also are discovering inner strength and wisdom, resilience, compassion for self and others, community. It's the perfect time to talk with Naila, a person whom I think of as a ray of sunshine! Naila talks about connecting with her body through exercise, moving through grief, coping with isolation and she shares a beautiful, easy practice that we can all try for connecting with our heart centers. About Nailia: Naila Francis is a certified death midwife and From Grief to Gratitude™ coach, as well as a wedding officiant, poet and accomplished writer. Over the course of her journalism career, she profiled artists and entertainers such as James Earl Jones, Krishna Das, k.d. lang, Pink, Michael Franti and “Eat, Pray, Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert. Her words have also appeared in greeting cards. Raised on the Caribbean islands of St. Lucia, Barbados and Antigua, Naila is an island girl at heart. She considers herself an ardent joy enthusiast and is also an avid traveler, who especially loves spending time in Tanzania with “her kids” at the orphanage she helps to support.