You can digest & metabolize impermanence and find a more passionate & empowered life!

If you’ve stumbled across this website, it’s most likely because you are encountering impermanence.

The heartache can be disorienting. And - I know that this is not the worst thing that can happen to you. I will hold that belief for you until you discover that too.

Times of disintegration offer the opportunity to gently enter the process of reintegration and we gain capacity to be deeply re-sourced.

This has been my lifelong study and work since the age of fourteen.

One of the most important things for you to know is you are not alone. Alive and Mortal is comprised of a community that is available to you  - and through our attachments to each other, and the relationships we are co-creating, we are all surviving and many are thriving. 

I am glad you are here. 

 “Much of our grief comes from having to crouch and live hidden from the gaze of others, and in that posture we confirm our exile." - Francis Weller

CEREMONIES AND RITUALS…

THESE ARMS ARE HONED.

AS AN EXPERIENCED EVENT PRODUCER AND MINISTER. YOU CAN TRUST ME WHEN YOU PUT YOUR RITUAL IN MY ARMS. 

You can draw on my previous career as an event producer - who ran events as large as 4,000+ attendees per day - and my many years of experience as an interfaith minister.

Your ritual or service is a singular event... and this gathering of loved ones will never happen in this particular way again. This is a "sacred" time - a time set apart from the ordinary. I am experienced in holding the tender, profound energy of your sacred moments.

 I perform ceremonies and services because I love doing it and know it is a transformative experience. It is an honor to be invited into the important moments of people's lives. Every ritual or service is unique. Whether it is a memorial, baby dedication, renewal of vows or a wedding... I enjoy bringing people together and focusing on the things that matter most in this life. We can blend faith traditions or create something entirely new!

For couples who are marrying after a loss - I am a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator. PREPARE/ENRICH is a leading relationship inventory and skill-building program to significantly improves a couple's relationship. I schedule 1 - 3 sessions with couples to prepare and enrich their bonds.

“I have noticed that since I have started working with Kim that my grief has lightened and that my own sense of humor has reawakened. I definitely feel less loneliness. She is one of the very best I have encountered.” -SR

Kim Go
Author
MDiv, CLC

FOUNDER, ALIVE AND MORTAL

INTER-FAITH MINISTER
”ANAM KARA” (SOUL FRIEND)
RITUAL CELEBRANT
RESILIENCE COACH
PUBLIC SPEAKER
EXPRESSIVE ARTS FACILITATOR

“Kim gave me clarity in many ways. She introduced me to the tools I need to get through difficult situations. I liked the practical suggestions she made. I gained self love. She helped me see that it is ok for me to put myself first and that it was ok to set boundaries. I have recommended her to friends because Kim really understands. I never felt judged, I felt safe. After every session I felt I healed.”  - SC

"There are folks placed in this life that with a look, a breath, a word, they help anxiousness turn to breath easy." -JA

About Kim

Kim is an ancestrally-informed ritualist, sharing wisdom medicine of ancient and modern teachers and traditions. 

Her ancestors are thought to have lived primarily in the territories of the Lake District of Cumbria for hundreds of years. The ancestors began to slowly emigrate to the United States, with a majority emigrating in the later 1800s. Kim humbly resides on the unceded lands of the Luiseño and Kumeyaay people.

She participates in healing rituals, land reparations, offerings, as well as serving the the capacities of Anam Cara ("Soul Friend") and of Death Doula. Known in the online community as Kim Go. she is a former Minister of Congregational Life in a multi-faith congregation. She has lead numerous expressive arts workshops for various non-profit institutions. She also provides Compassionate Workplace support for grieving teams and work communities. 

She has taken post-graduate studies through the American Art Therapy Association for art therapy, and additional training as a Spiritual Director, Life Coach and Hospice volunteer. Additional training to be conversant in ancestral healing and nature connection has rounded out her skill sets.

Her most recent study has been focused on interactive social health initiatives to address dying and grieving people’s social needs. This includes social connection for dying and grieving people with evidence-based solutions to the “death and grief phobic culture” epidemic.

She is currently working on a book for coaching people to create their own healing rituals. Authorship currently includes her study-guide for the book Entering the Healing Ground by Francis Weller, and she has published articles and authored a book chapter for Open to Hope.

Kim graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Theater Arts and Music, and has a Master’s degree in Theology (M.Div). Kim’s M. Div focused on spiritual formation through the non-verbal, the natural world, celtic spirituality and creative arts. Her Bachelor of Arts was in theatrical set design, lighting design and music.

Through service at Alive and Mortal, she continues to fulfill her calling to serve the community particularly at the thresholds of impermanence.

“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.” - Rumi