Live and Die Awake
On Love, Loss, and Living Fully
The story of a great love, a sacred dying, and the unraveling and rebuilding that followed.
- Publication
- November 4, 2026
- Publisher
- Rising Phoenix LIFE
- Author
- Julie Wright Halbert
- Foreword
- Cynthia C. Wright
- Inside
- Guided meditations and reflection pauses
- Subjects
- Grief, loss, end of life
November 4 is Cynthia's birthday. Julie's mother, and the grandmother of her sons, who wrote the foreword.
How a chapter works.
Memoir and guided journey in one object. Most chapters run the story, then a meditation with a code printed beside it, then a page to write on.
29
Chapters
From the first kiss to the last breath, and everything that had to be rebuilt after.
20
Guided meditations
Most chapters close with one, and each has a QR code beside it that opens the recording on this site.
30
Reflection pauses
The journaling exercise that follows. Bring a pen.
Twenty meditations,
in Julie’s voice.
Scan the code beside a meditation and the recording opens here, in the order the book walks them. It is the half of the book that does not fit between the covers.
- Opening MeditationLive and Die Awake: Rising from the Ashes
- Chapter 8The Descension and Shattering from Grief
- Chapter 13Choosing Rebirth
- Chapter 18Radical Forgiveness
- Chapter 29Becoming the Light
Every meditation has a page waiting at its own address, because every one has a code printed beside it. Julie reads them, and they open here on November 4, 2026, with the book.
Pre-orders are open.
Live and Die Awake publishes on November 4, 2026. Reserve your copy on Amazon now.
Copies for a group
Teams, congregations, hospice staff and book circles reading it together. There is no checkout for this yet and no published price, so it is an enquiry.
As a gift
The book, sent to someone who is carrying a loss.
Julie Wright Halbert
A leading national voice for grief literacy. Death doula, end-of-life educator, transformational soul coach. Founder of Rising Phoenix LIFE. Mother of two.