The Nature of the Journey

Imagine guiding your person through their final journey with acceptance, empathy, connection, and presence. The Nature of the Journey is your heartfelt guide for this deeply personal experience. Crafted with the care of a trusted trail guide, Chalmers offers a holistic approach to cultivate the end-of-life journey.

Discover how the senses of sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch, and beyond can inspire opportunities for moments of meaning, connection, presence, and pleasure. This book also explores the grief we carry, both before and after, the importance of worldview on how we face death, and how personal experiences shape this profound time.

At its heart, The Nature of the Journey underscores the importance of community. It reveals that dying is a deeply social event, highlighting the vital role of leaning on others and the comfort found in shared support. Let this guide be your gentle map to creating meaningful connections and finding solace during the final stages of life.

The Nature of the Journey

ISBN: 9781998129447

$34.95 CAD | Paperback / softback

Height: 9"

Width: 7.5"

Pages: 392

Publication Date: September 16, 2025

End-of-Life Doula Tracy Chalmers is a facilitator at Endwell and Douglas College, co-founder and grief educator and tender at The Grief Well, Certified Forest Therapy Guide, and Hospice Volunteer. She is grateful and humbled to be living on Coast Salish land known as the North Shore of Vancouver, in British Columbia. A friend to grief and death and servant to many, Tracy also considers herself a perpetual student. She is of Norwegian, Swedish, Scottish, and English ancestry, and values her roles as mother, daughter, wife, sister, friend, listener, and lover of the natural world and all of life. The work that Tracy does honors and is supported by countless ancestors.