Naila Francis

Naila Francis is a certified grief coach and death midwife, an ordained interfaith minister, a poet, and an accomplished writer. As the founder of This Hallowed Wilderness, she helps people transform their relationship to grief and loss through one-on-one coaching, workshops, presentations, rituals and community grief tending. Naila is also a co-founder of Salt Trails, a Philadelphia collective normalizing grief through community rituals, and a recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art + Change Grant, A former journalist, she found her way to the vocations of companioning others through grief and dying after suffering several personal losses in her own life, including the death of her father in 2012. You can learn more about her work at www.thishallowedwilderness.com