I believe the modern wellness industry is ignoring a fundamental piece of wellness: mortality. My cancer diagnosis at 29 made me realize that we’re doing wellness all wrong; our societal death-phobia is killing us. Through writing, speaking, and coaching, my mission is to change the way we think about the relationship between death and wellness. Nature-informed. Holistic. Integrative. Practical. When each of us heals our relationship to death and dying, we create space for the collective to heal together, and thereby our planet. I’m here to change the world. If it’s the last thing I do.
Death cannot be left out of the wellness conversation. Life and death are two parts of a whole.
In most industrialized, modern societies death and dying has become clinical, depersonalized, and most notably, feared. In my own experience with cancer at age 29 and in the years of reading, researching, and exploring that followed, it’s clear that true wellness in the body, mind, spirit (and Earth!) requires us to have a healthy relationship to fear. Fear, especially chronic, keeps the body in a stress response, which is the opposite conditions needed to foster healing and repair.
Health above all.
Holistic Health Coaching
Decluttering isn’t just for closets and inboxes — declutter your whole life in service of true wellness. Health is more than just the absence of disease, it’s about finding authenticity.
Terrain Advocate Support
Following the Metabolic Approach to Cancer / Health can be an overwhelming shift out of the cultural norms. Let me support you in making the changes your MATC doctor recommends.
What does de’Cluttering have to do with wellness?
Cancer has shown me that wellness encompasses everything: the people, places, things, thoughts, emotions, and beliefs in our lives. Living an intentional life is one where all of those elements align with what truly matters to you. I call the process of holistic decluttering, Intentionalism.
At the root of any transformation in body, mind, or spirit, decluttering is a necessity. You can’t welcome in new energy if there’s no space for it to land. Decluttering is the first step toward your new life. Yes, even if it’s just cleaning up your desktop or digitizing your passwords.
FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT
Julia de’Caneva
Julia is a young-adult cancer survivor (shout out to her thyroid tumor!) and deathcare enthusiast. She loves to support people in uncovering their most authentic selves through the process of holistic decluttering called Intentionalism. This process was born of 10+ years experience helping clients declutter their homes, digital world, lives, and small businesses.
She considers herself a Swiss army knife, of sorts. She is an IIN Certified Holistic Health Coach, Metabolic Regen Terrain Advocate Graduate, Going With Grace trained Death Doula, EOL planner, 200hr certified yogi, certified Yoga Nidra facilitator, UCLA Trained Mindfulness Facilitator, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, Life and Home Organizer, and former graphic & web designer. She seeks to fundamentally shift how we view wellness.
DID YOU KNOW? JULIA IS THE CO-FOUNDER OF
elemental focuses on Nature-centered wellness through somatic and mindful practices.
The delusion that humans are separate from Nature is causing us so much grief and suffering. True wellness lies not only within ourselves, but also in our connection to the humans and other-than-human beings around us all the time. True wellness is a practice of remembering and unlearning.