Anne-Marie is author of seven books on death and dying (five of which are self-published) and arriving in winter 2027 her newest book on her transformative journey with breast cancer. Her first book Death Nesting won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) in 2020 and gold Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) in 2023.
Anne-Marie's spiritual and practical influence from her Sámi and Celtic ancestry have powered her decades-deep meditation practice and clairsentience. Her viewpoints are received as a profound, yet light and refreshing way of viewing the wholeness of the human/earth experience. As a death doula educator she has taught hundreds of students around the world and led in-person retreats internationally. She is founder of the nonprofit Village Deathcare and offers extensive BIPOC and ESL scholarships in addition to offering students fair trade in exchange for education. The Village Deathcare training is a full spectrum model from pre-birth through post-mortem and psychopomp care. It is community based and a complete reversal of the mainstream death doula business model. She is a mother of three and delights in time in nature, exploring the quantum and feeling alive.
A little bit more...
After two decades of professional event coordination for weddings, fashion shows, concerts, festivals and conferences, Anne-Marie halted everything to work with the elderly. Propelled by her work with the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and her love of an elderly homeless man, she became a hospice volunteer in 2013. She continued her path of care as a licensed nurse assistant and worked with the elderly in residential care and as a private duty nurse. She was the only full time over-night “nurse” and cared for a home of 12 to 14 elderly residents. During this time she was also the director of Meals on Wheels in the capital of Vermont and studied community herbalism.
She is a Life Cycle Funeral Celebrant®, meditation and basic goodness instructor and has two decades of training in Shambhala Buddhist teachings and working with children and teens (ages 3-18) as a teacher at Karmê Chöling Meditation Center. She has studied Phowa with Anyen Rinpoche, completed multiple courses with Pema Chodron, and is certified through Lama Tsultrim Allione as a facilitator in the Buddhist track of Feeding Your Demons®, where her focus is on opening conversations with death. Anne-Marie has passed the National Home Funeral Alliance proficiency test, and has supported dozens of families through Family Directed Funerals, home burial and green burial in the state of Vermont.
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