Welcome to my journaling and death work.
Reach out with any questions — evapberezovsky@gmail.com.
Reach out with any questions — evapberezovsky@gmail.com.
I support people of all ages in building a curious, creative relationship with death, grief, and life.
My work is rooted in the belief that our lives become richer when we get to know our own depths — our inner world, our mortality, our grief — and that this journeying doesn’t have to happen alone or solely in response to crisis.
My work is rooted in the belief that our lives become richer when we get to know our own depths — our inner world, our mortality, our grief — and that this journeying doesn’t have to happen alone or solely in response to crisis.
offering: guided journaling
What
Meet with me for guided journaling sessions where I provide prompts, cue writing time, and invite optional sharing. This offering does not require any journaling experience or focus on the quality of your writing.
Prompts are custom to you and themed around whatever’s on your heart related to death, grief, or life. Topic possibilities are endless. A few examples:
How
Why
To me, the journal is a private, nonjudgmental haven — a place to freely explore, or simply be with, whatever we’re carrying. Tending to our inner world in this way often leads to lovely things: presence, release, revelation. I adore helping others step into the journal’s potential through custom prompts, gentle guidance, and compassionate companionship.
Meet with me for guided journaling sessions where I provide prompts, cue writing time, and invite optional sharing. This offering does not require any journaling experience or focus on the quality of your writing.
Prompts are custom to you and themed around whatever’s on your heart related to death, grief, or life. Topic possibilities are endless. A few examples:
- Noticing how you’re feeling
- Setting intentions for a fresh season or new chapter
- Discovering values and what’s important to you
- Exploring how you wish to be remembered
- Being with grief
- Continuing connection with a loved one who has died
- Building a relationship with mortality
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Virtual (or IRL in Chicago)
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1:1 or groups
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Free consultations available
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Email me to book or for more information
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Book as a one-off or recurring series
Why
To me, the journal is a private, nonjudgmental haven — a place to freely explore, or simply be with, whatever we’re carrying. Tending to our inner world in this way often leads to lovely things: presence, release, revelation. I adore helping others step into the journal’s potential through custom prompts, gentle guidance, and compassionate companionship.
offering: legacy projects
What
Work with me to create a legacy project: a creative document that captures your life story or that of a loved one. These offer a deeply meaningful way to process and/or memorialize, whether you’re seeking to create a leave-behind for loved ones, or craft something primarily for yourself.
Format is entirely tailored to you. If you’re seeking to capture the life of a loved one — not yourself — the project can be created while the subject is still living or retrospectively, after they have died. We can land on a format together if helpful, and the possibilities are vast. A few examples:
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Oral history
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Legacy letters
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Ethical wills
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Living funerals
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Recipe books
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Book of quotes/memories
How
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Virtual (or IRL in Chicago)
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1:1
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Free consultations available
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Email me to book or for more information
- I can help with brainstorming, planning, and/or executing — open to being a hands-on collaborator, a hands-off sounding board, or something in between
Why
We all have gifts, we all collect stories, we all learn lessons, and we all have our own essence, rhythms, and intricacies. Legacy projects celebrate this magical truth, and they can be especially meaningful as an end-of-life planning practice or when navigating grief. That said, there’s never a wrong time to craft one!
To create a legacy project about our own lives is an incredibly powerful act of self-love — an opportunity to connect with ourselves and appreciate ourselves. Leave-behind legacy projects can also bring great comfort to bereaved loved ones.
To create a legacy project about a loved one’s life is powerful in its own right. The process offers a container for moving through grief, while the product honors the loved one’s memory and gives the bereaved something to hold onto. I’m here for it all.
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on death work
I arrive to death work as a graduate of Going With Grace’s end-of-life doula training program, a former hospice volunteer at N.C. Little Hospice, a member of the Minnesota Death Doula Collaborative, and a grieving human.
In general, an end-of-life/death doula is a non-medical support person who provides emotional, spiritual, and/or practical support to a dying person, their loved ones, or anyone who’s interested in engaging with their mortality. Learn more here.
My appreciation for journaling informs Into the Journal, an interview project that I edit and share on Substack. It examines how and why people journal, because no two practices are identical.
My guided journaling practice began with a series of in-person group workshops called Journaling Space, hosted at Resource in Minneapolis.
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“These sessions are wildly inspiring. In each one, I’ve found myself thinking about writing and my relationship to writing in a different way — and in particular, I’ve found new ways to see the world around me and my place in it. I deeply appreciate the container that Eva creates, whether it be through working with a theme, the thoughtful prompts with lots of permission to explore what is coming up, or the music. Each session is not only something that impacts me in the moment, but I feel the reverberations throughout the following days and weeks as I continue to reflect on Eva’s prompts and the insights that come from my reflections.”
— D in Brooklyn, NY
“My time spent journaling with Eva was so important to my heart and mind. Though I journal almost everyday on my own accord, having Eva offer thoughtful prompts and containers allowed me to get to essential places within myself, which revealed truths that both surprised me and felt deeply known. I left the session feeling more clear and had more grace for myself. I feel so thankful to have these moments to reflect back on and endlessly grateful for Eva’s curious and kind stewardship of the written word.”
— D in Brooklyn, NY
“My time spent journaling with Eva was so important to my heart and mind. Though I journal almost everyday on my own accord, having Eva offer thoughtful prompts and containers allowed me to get to essential places within myself, which revealed truths that both surprised me and felt deeply known. I left the session feeling more clear and had more grace for myself. I feel so thankful to have these moments to reflect back on and endlessly grateful for Eva’s curious and kind stewardship of the written word.”
— E in Minneapolis, MN