Nowhere to Go But In: Reflections on Eldering & End of Life Work
by Rinah Rachel Galper, M.Ed. My Story My journey as an end of life doula really began when my father and my first spiritual teacher both committed suicide in 2000.…
About Rinah Rachel Galper
Rinah Rachel Galper is a seasoned coach, consultant, connector, educator, ordained spiritual support and healer, content designer, and facilitator. She has a Masters in Education, an Associate degree in Expressive Arts, two ordinations as a Kohenet and a Maggid, training as a Reiki master, end of life doula, ritualist, nature guide, and liberation ally, and over three decades experience working with diverse youth and adults across educational, community, and organizational settings. In her eldering, Rinah writes, speaks out, connects with and creates community spaces, mentors, spreads joy and inspiration, and engages in persistent and perpetual learning and teaching. Joyoushout represents the culmination and evolution of Rinah's extensive and intersectional commitment to social justice, teaching, healing, creative, and spiritual practice since 1985. Grounded in a lifetime of liberatory education and change work, Rinah continues to learn from the wisdom of the collective and her ongoing journey as a queer, white identified, anti-Zionist Jew, neurodivergent learner and unlearner, truth-teller, storyteller, healer, writer, and a woman in recovery. Rinah owes a debt of deep gratitude to her mother, Miriam Thompson (of blessed memory), a trailblazer in educational reform, labor organizing, civil rights, and worker education for over 50 years and countless other healers and mentors, past and present.