About Maggie
Maggie Converse (she/her/they)
My offerings honor the lived experiences that we hold in our bodies.
I have worked with body-based practices since 2006 and integrate energy healing practices like Reiki and my own intuitive abilities to work with energy.
My work as a Death Midwife and Grief Companion came from a reckoning of living in a death-phobic, grief illiterate society.
I have been called to companion the bereaved and the dying as well as those who are ready to confront their own mortality and existential anxiety around death. I am fortunate to have been able to work with people near death and their families as a Bereavement Care provider in hospice.
Experiencing a monumental loss in December 2021 shifted the trajectory of my practice to focus on creating a new paradigm of support for suicide loss and the immense grief that follows.
I hold ritual and compassionate space for grief, death, loss and life transitions of all kinds. It is my honor to hold spaces where talking about death and grief are welcome. It is my honor to companion people through these initiatory spaces.
I get to live life with my earth guides. My two beloved dogs - Daisy and Ari. We reside on the traditional lands of the Chinook, Wasco and Wishram peoples who have stewarded this land for thousands of years - what is now known as Hood River, Oregon.
Thank you to my teachers and mentors ~ those I have had the pleasure to meet and study with directly and those who have influenced me from afar or from other realms. These teachers and mentors include: Francis Weller, Malidoma Somé, Martín Prechtel, Narinder Bazen, Nityda Gessel, Beth Leas, Melissa Crowhurst.
Education & Accreditation
Grief Ritual Training with Francis Weller
Funeral Celebrant and Ceremonialist training with Death Wives
Holding Space Consultant with Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
Nine Keys Death Midwifery Apprentice
National End-of-Life Doula Alliance member
Intuitive Astrologer, Levels 1 & 2 with Deb Silverman Astrology
Certified Trauma-Conscious Yoga Instructor with Trauma-Conscious Yoga Institute
Reiki Master Practitioner
Certified 500-hour E-RYT and Continuing Education Provider, Yoga Alliance