No. While the work is therapeutic in nature, I'm not a therapist. The Submersion is educational and contemplative—it's about expanding your understanding, dismantling conditioning, and developing inner capacities. If you're currently working with a therapist, this work can complement that beautifully. If you're experiencing acute mental health difficulties, I'd encourage you to seek clinical support first.

Think of The Deep End as the map, and The Submersion as having a guide who walks the terrain with you—someone who knows where all the tricky bits are, who can point out what you might be missing, and who adjusts the route based on what you're actually encountering.

The Deep End gives you all the core material—the philosophy, the frameworks, the practices. It's brilliant for self-directed exploration, and many people find it genuinely transformative on its own. The Submersion takes that same material and makes it specifically yours, by applying each module directly to your life, your fears, your particular cultural inheritance and your specific blocks around mortality.

I also curate additional resources based on what I'm noticing about your process, interests, and where you're getting stuck or where you're hungry for more. In The Submersion, you also receive two personalised meditations, composed and recorded specifically for you in support of your personal journey. The first one addresses whatever's showing up for you—particular fears, edges you're bumping up against and the specific ways your nervous system responds to this work. The second one, at completion, holds everything we've discovered together and becomes an anchor that you can return to long after we finish.

The Submersion is also a committed three-month container, with a specific rhythm, and that structure itself creates both accountability and spaciousness. The work has room to settle between sessions. You're not just consuming the content of the course, you're being supported in living with it, and then bringing what's most alive back to our calls.

This work can be tender, disorienting and sometimes a bit wild. Having a guide who can say "that's normal," or "let's slow down here," or "I think there's something underneath that that’s worth exploring" is a very different animal from solo study.

(And if you've already purchased The Deep End, that cost will be deducted from The Submersion)

Not at all. While this work absolutely serves those who are grieving or living with a life-limiting illness, it's equally valuable for anyone who feels the call to develop a more conscious, intimate relationship with death before crisis demands it. Many people come to this work precisely because they want to prepare—emotionally, spiritually, practically—rather than waiting until they're in the thick of it.

Quite possibly, yes. Fear often signals something asking to be met rather than avoided. That said, this work asks for willingness more than courage—a willingness to slowly, gently, explore what lies beneath that fear. We won't be forcing anything. The work is rigorous but tender, and we'll move at a pace that honours your nervous system.

No problem. This work isn't tied to any particular belief system. Whether you approach death from a secular, spiritual, religious, or agnostic perspective, you’re welcome. We're exploring the universal human experience of mortality through multiple lenses—philosophical, practical, cosmic, and personal.

Beyond our 75-minute sessions every two weeks, you'll want to allow time for the contemplative practices, reading, and personalised exercises. This varies by person, but most people find that 30-60 minutes a week feels manageable and generative. The work is designed to weave into your life rather than dominate it.

First, you'll have email/WhatsApp access to me between sessions for support. Second, we calibrate as we go—this isn't about overwhelming you. If something feels too much, we pause, adjust, and find another way in. The goal is transformation, not trauma. Your nervous system's wisdom will be honoured.

At some point, yes. But we build toward that slowly and carefully. We start by exploring cultural and personal conditioning, expanding into cosmic context, and developing the inner capacities that make examining your own mortality not just bearable but meaningful. By the time we arrive there, you'll have scaffolding in place.