Anne-Marie’s is an international speaker, award-winning author and founder of Village Deathcare 501c3 whose inspiration and purpose is incorporating deathcare into community. Of Irish Celtic and Finnish Sámi (indigenous Finno-Ugric) roots, she draws from her work as a death doula, a nurse assistant, life-long meditator, Reiki Master Teacher and mother of three. She is a certified Feeding Your Demons facilitator, Life Cycle Celebrant (certificate in funerals) and trained Home Funeral Guide. She is a core designer and advisor to a virtual reality therapeutics company developing a program for those working through end-of-life challenges. She lives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont where she practices magic, community deathcare, trains her Siberian Husky and delights in her family’s love.

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 from 2013-2016 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 elderly residents. During this time she was also the director of Meals on Wheels in the capital of Vermont and studied community herbalism.

 
Anne-Marie’s first book Death Nesting which was self-published in 2019 won an Independent Publisher Book Award. Death Nesting was picked up by the publishing house Inner Traditions and was released in 2023.  She is a  Reiki Master Teacher, 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 completed Dying With Confidence training in Phowa with Anyen Rinpoche, “This Sacred Journey: Living Purposefully and Dying Fearlessly” with Pema Chodron, is a Chöd practioner, 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 regularly supports families through Family Directed funerals, home burial and green burial. 

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