About Sula
Sula Britt Johnson
About me and why I do this
I am a deeply passionate person - about life, and life’s cycles. I’m fascinated and driven by Love, where it takes us in life, how we relate to it - for ourselves, our relationships and our planet. I love to document life through photos and writing. I’m curious about humanity.
Raised by a single Mother who was an astrologer, a nurse and an advocate for change, I was introduced to the realities and repercussions of the patriarchy, and the wisdom traditions of energy work and astrology as a way of understanding our work within it.
I bring an honest, authentic and compassionate approach to the space. I pay close attention to the energy. Through deep listening and presence, I'm able to notice shifts necessary to facilitate a more comfortable, and honoring experience. I am an advocate for the life and the death that people ask for.
Dying is a sacred event, not just a medical event. No one knows how it feels to be dying, except the person going through it. My priority is to ensure that the dying person is feeling deeply witnessed, deeply cared for, and deeply honored - however that may be!
I see the person dying as a whole universe. As an energetic being who is preparing to separate from their body. A person on a journey that they control, I’m just there to facilitate the best path forward.
The conditions of our living make up our lives. I work to acknowledge the role oppressive systems play in our existence. For me, death work starts in life. Advocating for justice, for the right to live with the fullest expression of yourself, with safety and all the rights allowing you to do so is the foundation to my practice and my life’s work.
Dying needs to be heard and respected. I can’t take away the heartbreak and despair that comes with letting go, but I can be in it with you. Through nurturing the experience, I am here to witness and honor your life, walking through it, together.
Credentials, work experience:
Sula Johnson is the founder of Peacing Out. She lives and works in New York City, and is part of a growing movement made up of doulas, caregivers, and officiants looking to transform our relationship with death. She works both with individuals to support them and their families as they navigate the dying process. This includes emotional, spiritual and logistical support. She also works with companies and organizations to create programming and experiences that explore our mortality and give us expressions for our grief. Through workshop facilitation and one on one time with people, she creates spaces to thoughtfully explore end-of-life contemplations and planning.
She is an end-of-life doula with a certificate in Contemplative End-of-Life Care from the Institute of Traditional Medicine (Toronto, Canada). Sula has also completed additional training with the Open Centre in New York City with a focus on Home Funerals, and D-School with Martha Jo Atkins.
Sula is a life-long student of Tibetan Buddhism and has a background in event planning and cultural programming. Formerly a political advisor in Canada with the Ministry of the Status of Women, and COO of Rachel Cargle’s The Loveland Group, Sula is passionate about honoring the lives of women and gender non conforming people by advocating for racial equity, reproductive rights, gender affirming practices and gender-based violence. Bringing a feminist approach to death work, she returns to the foundational teaching of ‘your body, your choice.’ Sula works with people who are dying and their loved ones to create a ‘good death’ wherever that may be.