Conversation with Olivia Bareham

Wellevate Life Podcast

Born in England, with a BA in Education and a bachelor's in Natural Theology and Sacred Healing. Olivia is a certified Death Midwife, Home Funeral Guide, Interfaith Minister and Funeral Celebrant. In 2005, after the death of her mother, Olivia created The Sacred Crossings Institute with a mission of changing the culture of death and dying through education, death midwifery and home funeral support.
Olivia currently facilitates workshops in conscious dying and a certificate doula training program in ‘The Art of Death Midwifery’. In 2016, Olivia partnered with graduates of the death midwifery training program and together they created the Sacred Crossings Funeral Home.
In this episode we discuss:

• Olivia’s journey from a Special Music educator to Healer to death midwife
• The history behind the concept of ‘Death Mid Wife’
• Is calling this concept, ‘A Death Doula’ correct?
• Does it take losing a close one to perceive death differently
• What is the process followed by Oilvia as a Death midwife while dealing with a patient’s death?
• Do doctors get trained to deal with Death?
• Has going away from the community built this gap that makes dealing with death even more difficult?
• Does Olivia as a Death wives advertise or market this service?
• What usually happens while training a death doula?
• Sacred Crossing’s global presence