Tending To The Roots Of Ritual With Joél Simone, The Grave Woman

1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Tending To The Roots Of Ritual With Joél Simone, The Grave Woman In this episode of Grief Out Loud,&nbsp;we&nbsp;talk with&nbsp;death&nbsp;&amp; grief&nbsp;care professional, educator, and cultural advocate&nbsp;Joél&nbsp;Simone, also known as&nbsp;The Grave Woman.&nbsp; Joél&nbsp;shares the story behind a childhood drawing that declared her future as “the grave woman,” and how that early curiosity about death grew into a lifelong vocation in funeral service, grief education, and cultural competency. Drawing from decades of experience,&nbsp;Joél&nbsp;reflects&nbsp;on&nbsp;the spiritual, cultural, and embodied dimensions of grief, including&nbsp;what&nbsp;she’s&nbsp;learned by listening closely to families, children, and traditions that are too often overlooked.&nbsp;&nbsp; Joél&nbsp;also talks about her work&nbsp;as founder of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Multicultural Death&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Grief Care Academy, including immersive learning experiences that center history, ritual, land, and lineage. Throughout the conversation, she invites us to rethink what ritual looks like and how tending to culture&nbsp;can&nbsp;provide grounding and support for grief.&nbsp; We discuss: How rituals - inherited and improvised - can be a form of medicine&nbsp; What the funeral industry still needs to understand about serving Black and African American families&nbsp; The importance of cultural humility, proactive learning, and not treating communities as monoliths&nbsp; How children experience death and mourning from their literal, physical perspective and what adults often miss&nbsp; The role of land, ancestry, and cultural preservation in grief, particularly within Gullah Geechee communities&nbsp; Why culture itself can be a powerful container for grief and remembrance&nbsp; Connect with Joél Simone: Website: www.thegravewoman.com The Multicultural Death &amp; Grief Care Academy Workshops &amp; Classes The Death &amp; Grief Talk Podcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/thegravewoman Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegravewoman/ Grief Out Loud https://www.dougy.org/news-media/podcasts <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/40168050/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/198792945