Tiffany Lazic (Wales, UK) is a spiritual psychotherapist with nearly thirty years of experience in individual, couples, and group therapy. She is an international presenter, keynote speaker, and retreat facilitator. Tiffany is the founder of the Soul Alchemist Academy, offering liminal learning for modern mystics and psychopomps. Visit her at TiffanyLazic.com.

• ContentsActivities xiiiAcknowledgments xvThe Charge of the Psychopomp xviiIntroduction 1Part One: Seeking the LightChapter One: The Accidental Psychopomp 13Chapter Two: The Great Mystery Through the Ages 21Chapter Three: The Books of the Dead 29Chapter Four: The Sacred Dark and Light 41Part Two: Embracing the GraysChapter Five: Traversing the Liminal 57Chapter Six: The Passage Guides 63Chapter Seven: The Threshold Keepers 71Chapter Eight: The Gatherers 77Chapter Nine: The Rescuers 83Chapter Ten: The Visitors 89Chapter Eleven: The ComfortersChapter Twelve: The Harbingers 103Chapter Thirteen: Psychopomp Guidance 109Chapter Fourteen: Opening to Connection 123Part Three: Fleeing the DarkChapter Fifteen: A Candle in the Window 133Chapter Sixteen: Soul Death in the Age of Anxiety 151Chapter Seventeen: Shadow, Shame, and Inner Darkness 159Chapter Eighteen: Healing Bridges 175Part Four: Living Full SpectrumWhere Love Abides 197Chapter Nineteen: The Balm of Grief 199Chapter Twenty: Being a Modern Psychopomp 207Chapter Twenty-One: The Sacred Womb-Tomb 229Chapter Twenty-Two: The Death Midwife's Tool Kit for the Accidental Psychopomp 239Chapter Twenty-Three: The Soul Midwife's Tool Kit for the Temporary Psychopomp 245Chapter Twenty-Four: Donning the Rainbow Cloak 251The End 263Afterlife 269Remember Who You Are 273Appendix A: Cross-Cultural List of Psychopomps 275Appendix B: The Great Pumpkin Memorial Tour 281Appendix C: The Wondrous Glasgow Gift 311Selected Bibliography 321

"Lazic offers a compassionate and insightful guide to navigating life's most challenging transitions. Through a blend of cultural traditions, personal reflections, and transformative tools, she explores grief, shadow work, and healing with clarity and hope."—Dr. Kate Truitt, clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, and author of Keep Breathing"Courageously and tenderly, Lazic tells the story of her son's life and death and her own journey through the depths of grief. In her transparency, she is a trustworthy guide for all who face not only loss, but the shame that keeps us trapped and separates us from our essence."—Elizabeth Cunningham, author of The Maeve Chronicles and My Life as a Prayer"Through deeply compelling and quite personal experiences, the author takes the reader along a path of encountering the psychopomps and learning to harness their wisdom to bring transformation and healing to yourself and others."—Michael Furie, author of The Witch's Book of Potions"A truly necessary book. It traverses an often-difficult subject matter with skill and compassion, resonating with a hopeful and empowering message. To truly embrace life is to embrace the full spectrum of experience, and Lazic serves as a gentle guide into the depths of the self, even stretching as far as the transition beyond this life."—Moss Matthey, author of An Apostate's Guide to Witchcraft"Lazic's words are a beacon of hope, helping to navigate the reader through the complex experiences of death and grief. Psychopomps & the Soul is a compelling and beautiful book, both as an educational approach to the legacy of various liminal guardians from different cultures as well as an empathetic understanding of mourning and how to traverse life in its most challenging times...A must-read book."—Brett Hollyhead, author of Pagan Portals Sabrina"Written in Lazic's delectable, personal, and compassionate style, this multi-cultural guide to the experience of death, grief, and living life with authenticity is powerful and deeply transformative. One of the most endearing and visceral aspects of this book is its ability to explore, via the lens of death, how one might better live authentically."—Mhara Starling, author of Welsh Witchcraft and Welsh Fairies"A luminous guidebook for our times—an exploration of ancient wisdom made deeply personal through the author's own transformative journey through grief...Lazic invites the reader into a more vulnerable, authentic exploration of what it means to walk through the darkness. These personal stories lend the book a rare warmth and sincerity."—Jhenah Telyndru (MA, Celtic Studies), founder of the Sisterhood of Avalon and author of The Ninefold Way of Avalon"Poignant, powerful, and deeply reassuring, Lazic has created a compendium of comfort, guidance, and profound wisdom...Deftly woven with journal reflections, meditations, and psychotherapeutic exercises, this book stands alongside the esteemed depth psychology work of Estes, Bolen, and Weller."—Danielle Blackwood, Registered Counselor (RTC) and author of The Twelve Faces of the Goddess"A deeply profound work from an incredibly skilled teacher and guide...The real treasure is the jewel of acceptance and understanding drawn from her personal experiences with death. Tiffany invites the reader into an intimate knowing of the kind of grief that changes one forever."—Jenya Beachy, author of The Secret Country of Yourself"Lazic writes from a place of knowledge, empathy, and compassion. She has lived through the subject, and helps the reader to move through grief and loss with first-hand knowledge. This is a book of healing and of wholeness, of transformation and empowerment."—Joanna van der Hoeven, author of The Old Ways: A Hedge Witch’s Guide to Living a Magical Life and also the Witches of the New Forest fiction series.