Imagine guiding your person through their final journey with acceptance, empathy, connection, and presence. The Nature of the Journey is your heartfelt guide for this deeply personal experience. Crafted with the care of a trusted trail guide, Chalmers offers a holistic approach to cultivate the end-of-life journey.

Discover how the senses of sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch, and beyond can inspire opportunities for moments of meaning, connection, presence, and pleasure. This book also explores the grief we carry, both before and after, the importance of worldview on how we face death, and how personal experiences shape this profound time.

At its heart, The Nature of the Journey underscores the importance of community. It reveals that dying is a deeply social event, highlighting the vital role of leaning on others and the comfort found in shared support. Let this guide be your gentle map to creating meaningful connections and finding solace during the final stages of life.

• The Nature of the Journey is a compassionate resource for navigating the end-of-life experience with acceptance, connection, and mindfulness. With a nature-inspired approach, it explores the senses, culture, and community, providing tools to foster meaningful moments and shared support in life's final chapter.
• Drawing on over a decade of bedside experience and exploring how we approach death through education, reading, meditation, course creation, facilitation, and workshops, the author has developed a 360-degree approach that offers new and creative insights into accompanying the dying.
• The Nature of the Journey guides readers to trust their natural wisdom and honor that we already have what it takes to show up for the dying, we just may need a little help remembering.
• This guide is an essential read for anyone supporting a person with a life-limiting illness, offering reassurance that simple acts can provide comfort. It helps you embody the role of a compassionate companion while reminding you that, though your journey is unique, you're not alone—many have walked this path before.
• The author is the founding director of the End of Life Doula Association of Canada.
• The author teaches an End of Life Doula course at Douglas College.
• The author has been interviewed on CBC, Real Talk with Ryan Jespersen, and CKNW.