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Episode: 229

Don’t Learn This Too Late: Make An Authentic Life Now, By Getting Real About The End

with Alua Arthur

This mindset shift will change how you look at life, death, and everything in between.

Mel sits down with death doula and best-selling author Alua Arthur for a transformative conversation about how getting real about death can unlock the authentic, fulfilling life you’re meant to live.

Alua shares 3 powerful questions you should ask yourself today and reveals an inspiring exercise to perform on your birthday to help you live with more intention and gratitude.

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When I’m thinking about my death, I can see very clearly who I want to be.

Alua Arthur

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Alua Arthur

Alua Arthur is a death doula, speaker, and founder of Going With Grace, an organization dedicated to end-of-life planning and transforming the conversation around death and dying.

  • Book: Briefly Perfectly Human

    For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life.

    Briefly Perfectly Human is a life-changing, soul-gathering debut, by a writer whose empathy, tenderness, and wisdom shimmers on the page. Alua Arthur combines intimate storytelling with a passionate appeal for loving, courageous end-of-life care—what she calls “death embrace.” Hers is a powerful testament to getting in touch with something deeper in our lives, by embracing the fact of our own mortality. “Hold that truth in your mind,” Alua says, “and wondrous things will begin to grow around it.”

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