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Catherine Duncan

I've almost died more than once - and came back to teach people how to live. I will help you open your heart and soul to what it means to feel fully alive.

Best-Selling Author of Everyday Awakening
Integrative Spiritual Consultant
Podcast Host🎙️Everyday Awakening I am an Integrative Spiritual Consultant, Holistic Healer, Inspirational Speaker, and Blogger, committed to whole-person healing with a focus on emotional and spiritual health. As a childhood cancer survivor and having lived through a NDE, I am guided by both my professional and personal experiences. Connect with me and reconnect with yourself.

02/22/2026

At 11 years old, going through intensive treatment for a rare childhood cancer, I felt suspended between life and death.

No one talked with me about what was happening. The oncology ward was a horror show. Out of nowhere, I started to pray — quietly, secretly — to live to be 20.

Not long after, peace poured through me.

A presence not of this world held me in the darkest moment of my life.

That’s when I learned:
We are not separate.
We are an expression of the Divine.
And we are never alone. ✨

02/21/2026

If you weren’t there when they passed, please hear this.

Nobody dies alone.

In my years as a hospice chaplain and intuitive, I have witnessed something steady and true. When someone begins to transition, they are met by loved ones who have gone before. Familiar souls. Sometimes even beloved pets. There is a welcoming.

A gathering. A gentle holding.

Often they wait until you step out of the room. Not because they did not love you, but because they did.
They want to spare you the weight of that final breath. I have seen over and over that people choose when they leave their bodies.

If you are carrying guilt, you can release it.

They were not alone. They were surrounded. They were loved.

And they still are.

And so are you. ❤️

02/20/2026

A year at the bedside with the terminally ill will change you.
Death moves into your vision and life comes into focus.
You stop wasting time. You say what is true. You love without delay. You are not afraid.
There is nothing to be afraid of.
Life is now. This breath. This moment. This chance to live awake.

02/19/2026

10 Things To Do Before You Run Out of Time:

1. Breathe like it matters. Breathe in peace and breathe out any stress you may be holding.
2. Tell the truth to someone you love. Say the thing you keep postponing. I love you. I am sorry. I forgive you. Thank you. Let the connection be more important than being right.
3. Be with your body. Place a hand on your heart. Say to yourself, I am here. Feel the warmth of your hands. Your body anchors you in what is real.
4. Ask a truer question. What matters most today. How can I be kind to myself. What is one small step toward what I value.
5. Listen within. Ask one clear question. Notice ease, clench, or a quiet yes. Follow the small yes. Inner wisdom is here and now for each of us.
6. Make peace with one memory. Bring to mind a hard moment. Breathe in 4, out 6. Offer, May I be at peace. May they be at peace. Let softening replace the old story.
7. Do one generous act. Send a note. Drop off a meal. Smile at a stranger. Generosity rewires the nervous system toward safety and belonging.
8. Sit in the natural world. Feel wind on your skin. Listen to trees, water, birds. Nature calibrates your pace. Let the earth remind you how to be.
9. Create a small ritual. Light a candle at dawn. Write three lines of gratitude and feel the energy of love and gratitude. Touch your heart before sleep. Simple repetitions build resilient pathways.
10. Remember love is the reason we are here. Love does not leave. It changes form and keeps moving. Let love guide your choices today, not fear.

02/18/2026

Life rarely gives a warning. It just shifts.
If something changed suddenly, what would you wish you had done differently this week?
Call them. Say it. Try. Today.
Breathe in love, breathe out fear.
Let your heart lead.

02/17/2026

I almost died in Costa Rica. Beneath the water, a bright stillness found me. Peace overpowered fear. Something in me crossed over, and my life changed direction.
Some things cannot be explained. Only felt.

Have you ever had a moment that changed everything?

02/16/2026

If this were your last year, would this matter?

Breathe in peace, breathe out any stress.
Let the small stuff loosen its grip.

Most of what steals our peace will not register at the end.
What does matter is how we meet this moment.

Ask a deeper, truer question.

02/15/2026

During a near-death experience white water rafting in Costa Rica, I was thrown from a raft and pulled deep underwater. Helmet and life vest on, in pitch black water, I curled into a ball. Then a white light surrounded my body and a voice said, “Living or dying is fine,” and peace poured through my body. I let go into this peace. I didn’t know what was going to happen but trusted the peace in the moment and felt held by something greater.

We are not alone.

02/14/2026

You’re worried about the wrong things.
At the edge of life, no one longed to be smaller. They longed to be faithful to their soul.
To love, to risk, to live now.
Life is here. In this sacred breath.
Hand to heart. Inhale peace. Exhale fear. Take the next step.

02/13/2026

You don’t need a new life. You need to be present for the one you have.
I’ve sat with people at the end of their lives. Almost none wished they had done more - they wished they had been there for what they already had.
Most of us don’t lose our lives in one moment. We lose them slowly by never fully arriving.

02/12/2026

I’ve sat with people at the end of their lives for years.

And almost no one wishes
they had been more careful.

They wish they had:
• said what they meant
• stopped living for approval
• trusted themselves sooner
• taken the risk when it mattered

The regret isn’t about failure.
It’s about self-betrayal.

Most people feel that tension early.
They just learn how to ignore it.

02/11/2026

After years of sitting with the dying, here’s what I know:
They weren’t afraid of failure.
They were afraid of judgment.
And at the end, the question becomes:
Why did I let other people’s opinions decide my life?
Most people are too busy thinking about themselves to be thinking about you.

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