Kathleen Westberg

After many years of working in the health care field, in hospitals, clinics and hospices and through my own experience as a massage therapist and clairvoyant, I’ve written a book about death, healing and spirituality. Dying is Weird: A Journey of Enlightenmentis the story of my family’s Turn-of-Century Catholic immigrant roots and my transitions from growing up in the rural Midwest to raising my own family and coping with the death of relatives through the passage of time. From my childhood I always had an other-worldly sense of death, and as I grew older I learned to expand my spiritual awareness by studying eclectic subjects ranging from Healing Touch and Swedish Massage to Reiki, Reconnective Healing, Polynesian Shamanism and traditional Native American sweat lodge ceremonies. I have also been profoundly influenced by the teachings of Edgar Cayce and the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) on health and holistic healing, the afterlife and many related subjects. Throughout all these experiences I found that I have a special ability to communicate with loved-ones who have passed away. It is my hope that Dying is Weird: A Journey of Enlightenmentwill help people of different ages and backgrounds attain a greater understanding and loving transcendence of the often difficult, sad and confusing experience of death.