Kema Ward is a death and grief doula, author, and life coach. Her work supports people who are ready to look at grief, living, and transitioning with honesty. Her approach is intuitive, trauma-aware, and deeply attuned to the needs of Black women and women of color.
She has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and The Tamron Hall Show. The CNBC feature on relocating to Costa Rica has received over 1 million views, and her audience continues to grow among people drawn to intentional living, grief, liberation, and the wisdom that emerges from facing mortality.
The path into this work began with her own brush with mortality. In 2016, she was diagnosed with HER2+ breast cancer. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey took her family's home. In 2018, after treatment and after the storm, she and her husband sold what they had and moved their family to Costa Rica, looking for a kind of living that felt purposeful instead of performed. She gave birth to her son, a miracle baby, at home in April of 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic. Three months later, she lost her sister Erin. Grief took her apart, and then slowly and intentionally, put her back together. That is where her journey to becoming a death and grief doula began.
She is the author of For My Beloveds, The Power Within, and the memoir Where the Light Comes In, which tells the story of how death, symbolic and literal, changed her life. Her writing, teaching, and presence are devoted to a single truth: grief is not a problem to solve, it is a practice to return to, and when we tend it with intention and community, something shifts in us and in the people who come after us.
There are a few ways we can work together
The work I do is for people who know something needs to shift and are ready to do the honest work of shifting it. That could be transition grief or bereavement grief. You already know what you need. Sometimes you just need a space that can hold it.
Not sure where to start? Book a free 10-minute discovery call and we will figure it out together.