Francesca Lynn Arnoldy is a community doula and death literacy advocate. She is the author of a guidebook, Cultivating the Doula Heart, a picture book, Map of Memory Lane and an interactive workbook, The Death Doula’s Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared. Francesca is a researcher with the Vermont Conversation Lab and was the original course developer of the University of Vermont’s End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Programs. She regularly presents on life-and-death topics with hopes of encouraging people to support one another through times of intensity. You can find her contemplating birth, death and life with the doula heart at francescalynnarnoldy.com.