On Grief, Desire, & Liberation — With Oceana Sawyer

Tending the Roots: Composting Conversations

In this episode we discuss grief as a metabolizer of experience and its role in our lives and the world to come.

An End of Life (EOL) Doula, Oceana specializes in the liminal spaces of active dying and grief. She is currently researching the intersection of embodied grief and somatic abolitionism as well as developing and holding space for healing through a sensual (all the senses) lens.

Here work with the Rooted Global Village is focused in the area of somatic grieving as a liberatory praxis as well as holding space for people of the African diaspora.

A certified home funeral celebrant, living funeral ceremony facilitator, and Conscious Dying Educator, Oceana also holds graduate degrees in counseling psychology and organizational development. You can learn more about her on her substack, and on instagram.

Oceana’s Links: Substack: https://oceana.substack.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oceanasportal/