Carole L. Trepanier

Carole L. Trepanier Carole is an animist ritualist and global transition consultant specializing in endings & awakenings Carole L.

Trepanier of “The Death of Me” is an animist ritualist and global transition consultant who specializes in endings and awakenings--forms of Death. A small-town Franco-Ontarienne trained in Indigenous community care and counselling, Carole worked for over 20 years in community/international development engaged in holistic community care and transition/loss work (colonization, food security, climate

change, globalization, natural disasters, pandemics, poverty, human rights) around the world. Profound life initiations sparked a return to direct Spirit engagement, deep explorations of transition through traditional ceremony/practice, Ancestral lineage healing, focused ritual training, and a renewed service to all Life. Carole’s ritual offerings include energy healing, light trance journeys, trauma/grief work, unburdening ritual, death rites, psychopomp, home funerals, Ancestral Lineage Healing, Spirit engagement, and Earth transition/Earth-honouring ceremony. Sessions can be booked through her scheduler at: https://thedeathofme.as.me/

It's Advance Care Planning Day!
04/16/2026

It's Advance Care Planning Day!

04/07/2026

Grief is a sacred part of the human journey. Join us for a meaningful evening with Elder Harry Snowboy as we explore teachings that support healing, reflection, and connection. This 2-hour session offers cultural guidance on understanding grief, the importance of rites of passage, and ways to care for yourself, your family, and your spirit.
Together, we honour grief as a natural process and learn about cultural supports including medicines, ceremonies, and traditional resource people. A Q&A discussion is included.
📅 April 8, 2026
⏰ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
📧 Register: mark.carpenter@ncct.on.ca
All are welcome to come listen, learn, and share in a supportive space.

What a tender-hearted, sweet afternoon of deep deathy chats with community/neighbours during Community Deathcare Ottawa'...
03/28/2026

What a tender-hearted, sweet afternoon of deep deathy chats with community/neighbours during Community Deathcare Ottawa's first Death Doula "speed dating" event. Dozens of people sat across from me (the resident Witchay Mama, lol) to learn about spiritual death planning, unburdening/healing ceremony, Ancestral Lineage Healing, the needs of the dying, death rites, psychopomp, grief ceremony, afterlife constructs, spirit engagement, and more. We also exchanged personal stories of endings, awakenings, death initiation, unravelling, wisdom. Hearts were tended, eyes met, deep breaths were taken. Also a touch o' whimsy. More please!

Last night's "Together is the Medicine" online community grief ritual/healing was sweet, powerful and profoundly beautif...
03/27/2026

Last night's "Together is the Medicine" online community grief ritual/healing was sweet, powerful and profoundly beautiful. There was poetry, a call-in of Well-Seated Ancestors and Spirit Helpers, grief teachings, spiritual healing work, song, contemplation/journaling, Heart-Holding Ceremony, guided meditation and poignant shares. Most importantly, there was togetherness in these times. More of this, please. Deep bow to my co-facilitators, Kelly Butler: Reclaiming Death and Emma Griffin of En Terre Outaouais - Enterrement Naturel / Natural Burial. We are all held more than we know.

Let us go to the river and sing.

https://Hi all! Here's my original song "The River" performed live off the floor, layering my own voice with a 5 track looper (RC505). Since originally posti...

Pop by tomorrow for some deathy "dating" with Ottawa's deathcare community!  If you've ever been curious about what serv...
03/27/2026

Pop by tomorrow for some deathy "dating" with Ottawa's deathcare community! If you've ever been curious about what services we offer, what skills we carry, and the myriad of ways we can support you and your loved ones, join us for a sweet-hearted few hours of exploration/education. 🙂

Death Doulas, that is. 💀 Community Deathcare Ottawa is hosting a community "speed dating" event with local deathcare practitioners! It's an opportunity to briefly sit with each Death Doula and chat about their area of interest, specialization and/or skill. It's a wonderfully diverse group! (Also beer!)

For the first hour we will rotate through the room at timed intervals. The second hour is more casual, for deeper conversations and information-gathering on topics of interest.

"Date" me to chat about Spiritual Death Planning, healing ritual/ceremony, Spirit supports, Earth-honouring/body practices, Ancestral Lineage Healing, unburdening/releasing help, energetic resolution, sacred space, death rites, life honouring, psychopomp (crossing/elevation/Ancestralization), grief ceremony, rebuilding/Dreaming, ongoing engagement in/with Spirit, and more.

I haven't dated in a while, but I can be scintillating! 😃

RSVP here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScF6WUxzw2Ml0UHl7qsgKIMO32e4HSivNirzNFo7QwcdfJR5A/viewform?pli=1

Death Doulas, that is.  💀  Community Deathcare Ottawa is hosting a community "speed dating" event with local deathcare p...
03/07/2026

Death Doulas, that is. 💀 Community Deathcare Ottawa is hosting a community "speed dating" event with local deathcare practitioners! It's an opportunity to briefly sit with each Death Doula and chat about their area of interest, specialization and/or skill. It's a wonderfully diverse group! (Also beer!)

For the first hour we will rotate through the room at timed intervals. The second hour is more casual, for deeper conversations and information-gathering on topics of interest.

"Date" me to chat about Spiritual Death Planning, healing ritual/ceremony, Spirit supports, Earth-honouring/body practices, Ancestral Lineage Healing, unburdening/releasing help, energetic resolution, sacred space, death rites, life honouring, psychopomp (crossing/elevation/Ancestralization), grief ceremony, rebuilding/Dreaming, ongoing engagement in/with Spirit, and more.

I haven't dated in a while, but I can be scintillating! 😃

RSVP here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScF6WUxzw2Ml0UHl7qsgKIMO32e4HSivNirzNFo7QwcdfJR5A/viewform?pli=1

Hi all.  I would be remiss if I didn't say a thing about what's in the ethers this week.  I've been preparing my ceremon...
02/17/2026

Hi all.

I would be remiss if I didn't say a thing about what's in the ethers this week. I've been preparing my ceremony groups for months for these times.

Tomorrow, Feb. 17th, the larger Life Ceremony brings us a ring-of-fire solar eclipse (an ending/death and your loving shove to new timeline) and the new moon (seeding/birth) in Aquarius (we the people, free-spiritedness, rejection of authority, the future, revolution, innovation, independence, eccentricity, intellect, the alien), all squared by Uranus (the shocking/unpredictable). The sky is signaling that Aquarian energies, with Pluto's engine (transformation, death/rebirth, power), will lead our personal and collective evolution 'til 2044.

Tuesday is also the Lunar New Year. 2026 is The Year of the Fire Horse, a potent high-energy period of swift change/transformation, passion, intense action and bold ambition. Rapid forward momentum follows the profound dredging and shedding we've been doing for the last year.

On Feb. 20th, Saturn joins Neptune at the 0 point (birth) of the Zodiac in Aries. It merges structure/discipline/responsibility (Saturn) with dissolution and dreams/spirituality (Neptune) in a pioneering/fiery sign (Aries) for a new 36yr cycle. This is considered a new reality reset--a powerful "genesis moment" for a new era of personal and collective identity.

So...no big deal. lol My recommendation for all eclipses is to go limp and allow. 🙂 Everything is happening right on time. You may notice there are life themes that could use more Aquarius magic. You may notice yourself differentiating from the programs/roles/expectations/survival mechanisms that somehow became your personality. All this is good news.

If you need support navigating the transformative shifts of this Life Ceremony, I'm here. To book a healing session: https://thedeathofme.as.me/

Love!

Artwork: Eclipse by Cedar Lee

Psst... As we close out 2025, I want to extend my deepest Love and appreciation for those of you who walked with me in p...
01/01/2026

Psst...

As we close out 2025, I want to extend my deepest Love and appreciation for those of you who walked with me in person and virtually this year. 2025 was wild, (Just me? lol) and it’s good to be with you to witness its ending. Deep bow to 2025!

I’m proud of the work done with “The Death of Me” this year. I’ve been deep in healing ceremony for most of 2025—with clients, and with myself. It was good to meet, heal and engage so many Ancestral lineages with you, to be in circle with the beautiful Shelter Together group, to deepen connections and nurture relationship with non-human kin and Helper Spirits, to witness your courage as you dove into your wounds and worked toward healed outcomes in ceremony. Some of you came to me for community deathcare support as you tended your loved ones, attended to their deaths, and honoured their lives. Thank you for trusting me with your hearts and the spiritual work.

This year also saw new collaborations and invitations. My heart is still bursting from my experience singing and holding space for children at Ottawa’s Roger Neilson Children’s Hospice with Arif Jinha. I was invited to hold ceremony and speak about the benefits of Ancestral Lineage Healing with the Emissaries of Light initiation group, was invited to collaborate with Ottawa’s Soul Space organization to bring healing opportunities to Ottawa’s frontline workers, and taught about the role of spiritual preparation/ceremony in deathcare with Kelly Butler’s AP Doula training program. I was also happy to support the work of peers tearing down structures of oppression and building healed outcomes.

Of course, deepening into my own training and lifelong personal spiritual healing journey brought even more spice. This year offered further lessons re: limitation as I spent 5 months of this year sick in bed. My eyes struggled to see most of this year, so I rarely went into the world. There was a cancer scare, surgery and good news. (Most of my big spiritual teachings center around the death experience.) There were more losses of loved ones, endings of many a sort, and moments of great silence and solitude. Letting go, and letting go some more…holding the healed outcome in my mind’s eye, and choosing to allow it, again and again. I am happy to be healthy and in good spirits. Sometimes, when cooking, the most potent flavours are found after we boil things down to their fundamental essence. I figure I’m delicious. 😊

Moving into early 2026, here are some of the offerings in the mix:

New Year Stone Reading / 1.5hr Stone Divination and Healing Course-Correction
https://thedeathofme.as.me/

Starting Jan. 22nd! The Death of Me – Spiritual Death Planning Series (6 sessions)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1337022977607429/1337026387607088/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22home%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22search_results%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

10-Session Healing Package: Is this the year you face the things? For those looking to initiate Big Transformative Work, this is an opportunity to do so at a significantly reduced rate. Session types can be any of the following: Ritual Healing, private Spiritual Counsel, Ritual Training, Mentorship sessions. (Yes, you can mix and match as you see fit.) What would you like your life to look like after 10 sessions with me?
Book here: https://thedeathofme.as.me/TenSessions

Thank you, family, friends, clients, peers, Teachers and sweet-hearted lurkers! :) You are seen, valued, and precious to me!

Wishing you a GLORIOUS 2026! x
Carole

If you like to cozy up with a good book...
12/17/2025

If you like to cozy up with a good book...

I've opened up my calendar for “New Year Stone Reading/Healing” bookings, starting now!  :)  This 90min ceremony is an o...
12/16/2025

I've opened up my calendar for “New Year Stone Reading/Healing” bookings, starting now! :)

This 90min ceremony is an opportunity to peer into what 2026 holds for you, but it doesn’t end there. This is a healing—a blend of predictive Divination using sacred bundle stones, Spirit communication, healing work and time/space shifting. Together we get to see the Big Picture, work the stones to heal the relevant past/present/future wounds in play on your timeline, and bring about the needed course-correction toward a Healed Outcome for your 2026. (No small thing!) You can choose a theme for your New Year Stone Reading (health, purpose, relationships, work, home, growth, etc.), or see what life theme arises in the stones.

This ceremony is one of my favorites to facilitate, as it's such sweet time together with clients, the stones and other supportive Spirits, and it always ends with powerful healed outcomes, lightness and joy. Such a beautiful way to start 2026!

No, MAID isn't a secret organ-harvesting operation.  Consent to donate is separate from the decision to choose MAID.  Al...
12/12/2025

No, MAID isn't a secret organ-harvesting operation. Consent to donate is separate from the decision to choose MAID. Also, underlying health conditions often disqualify MAID recipients from donation. There is a strong misinformation campaign spreading across Canada about medical assistance in dying.

For accurate information about MAID in Canada, please consult the Dying With Dignity Canada website here: https://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/

Organ donation is not required to receive medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada. Despite conspiratorial social media posts alluding to an organ-harvesting operation, whether to donate organs remains a personal choice — no one can be forced to do it.

Visit our Media Centre at the link below to get the real facts from AFP Fact Check.

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