Member Profile

Dr. Jamie Eaddy is a grief scholar, thanatologist, grief companion, educator, and holistic spiritual care practitioner with two decades of experience walking alongside individuals, families, and communities navigating death, dying, grief, and profound life transitions. She is the founder of Thoughtful Transitions and The Ratchet Grief Project®, justice-centered initiatives committed to grief education, end-of-life care, spiritual care, and community-based healing.

As a practicing death doula and trainer, Dr. Eaddy understands her work as that of a threshold walker and crossroads companion—one who accompanies people at life’s endings, ruptures, and reconfigurations. Her practice is grounded in interdisciplinary scholarship and trauma-informed care, integrating grief theory, psychology, pastoral and spiritual care, somatic awareness, and neurospiritual frameworks that attend to how memory, imagination, the nervous system, and meaning-making shape experiences of dying, loss, and bereavement. Her approach honors the whole person—body, mind, spirit, relationships, and legacy—while remaining attentive to the social and cultural realities that influence end-of-life experiences.

She is a Fellow in Thanatology (ADEC) and serves as an educator, professor, and trainer working at the intersection of grief, death, dying, and spiritual care. She teaches graduate-level students and provides training for doulas, clergy, chaplains, mental health professionals, and caregivers. Her justice-centered lens shapes how she approaches education and accompaniment, particularly with those who have been historically overlooked and underserved.

She offers training through virtual and in-person formats, including cohort-based courses, and individualized or apprenticeship-style instruction. She is the author of the forthcoming book Befriending Grief: Re-Membering Ourselves After Loss