Planning Life's Milestones: Intentional Approaches to Birth and Death with Alisha DiMasi on the Healers Cafe & host Manon Bolliger

In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, RBHT, speaks with Alisha DiMasi about the connections between birth and death. They discuss the importance of community support, planning, and intentionality in both experiences. Alisha shares insights from her work with Threshold Care, focusing on green burial education, home funerals, and the emotional aspects of saying goodbye to loved ones. For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/alisha-dimasi     Highlights from today's episode include: Alisha DiMasi  17:54 We could be keeping our loved ones at home after they die, and we could be the ones the family washing the body, you know, which is more of a ritualistic washing, not like a scrub, a dub, dub washing, um, and having a multi day vigil. Alisha DiMasi  These are hard conversations, and it's hard to say goodbye, but don't underestimate what a gift it is to plan ahead and give some information, because the people that are left behind want to do what you wanted to do, Alisha DiMasi  But talking about death is very life affirming, okay? Because if we're talking about this final, this finality, what could reflect back to us more the amazing and incredible opportunity we have here today to be alive, right?   ABOUT ALISHA DIMASI Alisha DiMasi, Well Within’s founder, comes to you as an occupational therapist, mother, and deeply curious human. Over her studies and career, she has worked with infants through elders in public and private schools, hospitals, and assisted livings. During Alisha’s many years in the local public and private residential schools she served students with a wide range of physical and cognitive & dis-bilities. Those years highlighted for her the importance of parent and caregiver; engagement and the power held within the home setting to support a child’s growth. Through her own mothering she witnessed the transformative capacity of coregulation. Alisha’s involvement with Threshold Care began in 2016 and gave home to a longtime interest in burials that were environmentally sound and financially accessible.  Her involvement with Threshold Care nurtured an interest in holistic end of life care.  It was an education to compare Threshold’s work to the end of life practices she saw in the assisted livings. In 2021, she became a board member. Through her two pregnancies and home births, Alisha became a student of Trust. It was also then she began looking in wonder at the multitude of parallels between birth and death. She continues to study the power of these portals and the rites of passage marking the space between them.  Alisha’s experience as a parent has been expansive, beautiful, and grueling, often within moments of one another! Alisha holds exploration in high regard and has many interests. She loves building community connections, loves to sing, and is learning to play her first instrument- a banjolele.  Alisha has lived her personal study in: physiological birthing, respectful parenting, natural motor development, the natural care of our bodies; including in acute and chronic illness; permaculture design, living with loss and grief & and the sensory integration changes that can accompany trauma, and most recently but certainly not least—Human Design.  Alisha lives in Lyndeborough with her two children and husband on their small homestead. Core purpose/passion: I am a multi-passionate person and what has risen above the rest in recent years is my desire to support individuals and family systems in finding, feeling, and claiming their power during everyday interactions with themselves, their children/family, and the outside world. Website | Facebook |    ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER, FCAH, RBHT  As a de-registered (2021) board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver.  My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  'What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship' and 'A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress'.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals. So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience". Manon’s Mission: A Healer in Every Household!  For more great information to go to her weekly blog:  http://bowencollege.com/blog.  For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips   Follow Manon on Social – Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Twitter | Linktr.ee | Rumble   ABOUT THE HEALERS CAFÉ:  Manon's show is the #1 show for medical practitioners and holistic healers to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives.  Subscribe and review on your favourite platform: iTunes | Google Play | Spotify | Libsyn | iHeartRadio | Gaana | The Healers Cafe | Radio.com | Medioq |   Remember to subscribe if you like our videos. 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