Grieving Life as We Knew It with Fawn Cheng

As a former hospice volunteer and end-of-life doula, Fawn is passionate about educating others on the benefits of confronting one's mortality and normalizing end of life conversations. In her 20's, Fawn read two books that inspired an interest in how to live a more meaningful life by normalizing death. Those books are: On Death and Dying and The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. The former is the original theory of the five stages of grief and the second, a practice for how to care for and show love to the dying.    As her journey progressed, her curiosity deepened into a desire to conceptually and experientially understand death, loss, grief, and their impact on the vitality of our lives. Fawn has studied Buddhist psychology and practiced meditation for over 25 years and in this time, continues to find indispensable the qualities of openness, curiosity, compassion, courage, and kindness as outlined in those studies, hence setting the pace for how she intends to move through the world. ⁣⁣   Fawn is the lead consultant for Denouemant, which provides concierge end-of-life planning services for high net worth individuals and family offices.   How Fawn’s differing relationships were shaped during Covid. Her experience with the global death that we’ve all experienced the past 2 years.  Reframing the ego—“I was gifted this human experience and I wouldn’t get to do this without my ego—the conditioning.” How Covid made her more malleable and tougher at the same time. How Fawn has decided to pick her battles and how that’s served her relationships. Fawn’s beautiful advice in navigating these critical times. How to allow these times to be what they are and let go of our assumptions.  Her process in letting go and grieving how we think the world should be. How to “stay flexible” with death. The impact that the death of her ex-husband just a few months ago had on her. “The ultimate freedom is always in the inside. All we can control is how we’re responding to each moment.” “The truth is, we are all terminal. Our death is imminent.” How do we live on this planet as we’ve got through this metamorphosis? These times are demanding that we rise and ascend. The gifts and subtle lessons that Covid taught Fawn. It’s important to ask yourself—how much more joy can we bring into our life? Channeling the vibration of joy—what that means and how we can do it. Learn more: FawnCheng.com