Andrea Deerheart, Founder of The HeartWay: Embracing Life, Honoring Death

Dr. Andrea Deerheart is the passionate founder of The HeartWay. She has gathered knowledge and wisdom from decades of guiding many people of all ages through the inevitable trials and tribulations surrounding life and death, supporting them physically, spiritually, and psychologically.

Her work and teaching encompasses issues related to optimal wellness of mind and body – death and dying – grief and loss, and compassionate, mindful and supportive care.

Andrea lovingly shares the rare and precious gifts she has gleaned from her many teachers, most especially the hundreds who have allowed her to accompany them through the vulnerable and sacred time of their final suffering and death. She offers diverse programs that emphasize the inspiration, relevance, and comfort from the myriad lessons Andrea has learned from Embracing Life & Honoring Death.

The HeartWay is a conscientious organization driven by compassion. Our primary focus is to provide an integrative and comprehensive care plan that strives to strengthen the bodies and hearts of those during life transitions. The HeartWay’s unique approach is devoted to enhancing quality of life by utilizing resources, education, and personalized care.

The HeartWay is dedicated to reversing the culturally prevalent denial of death and encouraging a return of intimacy, reverence, and sanctity to death and dying.

The HeartWay seeks to inspire, educate, and offer fresh and creative end-of-life options that are not typically acknowledged in our Western medicalized approach to death.

The HeartWay envisions a world where no-one dies alone, fear-laden, and has the opportunity to be met with compassion, respect, and loving care.

The HeartWay is devoted to be an invaluable resource to the communities we serve by guiding those in end-of-life transitions, as well as offering support to their caregivers and loved ones. Through continual education, training, and advocacy The HeartWay provides a platform in hopes of inspiring an understanding of death that allows for an awakening in life. The HeartWay presents resources and tools to expand approaches in honoring death.

Embracing Life is…

Living in the moment
Seeking nurturing support
Pursuing new knowledge
Willingness to grow
Adapting to change

Embracing Life allows us to…

Know and truly accept ourselves
Engage ourselves with an open and accepting heart
Approach our lives with the ability to create
Choose our path
Give and receive love

Honoring Death is…

Allowing compassionate support
Integrating death into life
Willingness to be present in the moment
Making informed choices
Acknowledging our fears about death and dying

Honoring Death allows us to…

Embrace life until we take our last breath
Reconcile feelings and relationships
Experience meaningful connection with others
Trust our faith
Feel a deep sense of love for ourselves

Dr. Deerheart has a very diverse educational background, beginning at San Diego State where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and Sociology. After several years in the field of marketing development, her studies took a dramatic shift when Andrea became a Hospice volunteer. She continued to enhance her expertise by serving as a Hospice Social Worker, end-of-life guide (death doula), care manager, and grief counselor, providing much-needed support to many people facing the hard challenges of life’s major transitions.

She received her Doctorate from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where her studies focused upon mythology, depth psychology, comparative religions, and death, dying and beyond.

Dr. Deerheart also has more than twenty-five years of experience in the fields of nutrition, health, wellness, and body mechanics, which she continues to teach at Saddleback College. These skills and experience are the foundations for The HeartWay.

Andrea is available for keynotes, breakout sessions, workshops, lectures, community events, system conferences for healthcare, senior care conferences, and university programs.

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