Joellyn inspired my daughter to examine aspects of her life and spirituality that she had never processed before. My daughter began to consider that death is a rebirth of spirit and consciousness and not a finality of being… Joellyn began assisting my daughter in her rebirth… and seemed to open an energy pathway to God seeking his guidance and wisdom. Her calm presentation, extensive knowledge, as well as years of experience…calmed me and kept me focused on my daughter’s needs… Her compassion and skills gave my daughter the comfort, support, and unconditional love that had been missing all her life.
- Janet W.

MEET JOELLYN

Joellyn St. Pierre,
D. Div., Founder and Director, is an ordained interfaith minister with a doctorate in divinity focused on Death as a Transition. For 25 years she enjoyed a professional career in theatre with 7 Broadway shows to her credit, including “A Chorus Line,” and “Pippin,” national tours, regional, stock, dinner theatre, commercials, industrial shows and night clubs. She served as Director of Dance for the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training, founded a performing arts school in Orlando, FL, as well as teaching, directing and choreographing nationwide.

When many of Joellyn's dear friends and associates from theatre began dying from AIDS, her entire life changed. Death became an initiation into a new life; that of a Death Midwife. Since 1991, she served those dying and their loved ones throughout the country with various hospices and AIDS organizations. Currently, she donates her services to Norfolk General Hospital’s palliative care unit.