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EPISODE · Jul 8, 2025 · 59 MIN

Let’s Talk about Mental Health and Death/Loss: Fun Right?!

from The Inner Shift Podcast · host Kimothy Walker / Amy Friesen

Dina Bell-Laroche is a death doula, educator, author and educator. So, on this episode, we talk about mental health as it pertains to losing a loved one…or about how to start saying goodbye to your person.Dina has spoken around North America on the topic, as it pertains to everything from workplace culture to intimate family dynamics. As a trained thanatologist (ya, we had to look up the word, too!), she has helped people transition to a place of peace around loss….whether it has already happened or is about to….She was motivated by the loss of her younger sister to cancer…who was the mom of a young child. Dina was 31 years old. We also talk about how Dina has created, together with the Ottawa Cancer Foundation, a Japanese inspired “Wind Phone”...where people can sit in solitude to “talk” to their loved ones on an actual phone connected to the wind. There are thousands of wind phones around the world, inspired by a grieving cousin during a tsunami.Join us, as we continue to help people get through the tough sh#t in life….and talk about mental health.In full disclosure, Kimothy helped build the school in Nicaragua in Tracy’s name…though she was terrible working the water pump for cement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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