Jennifer Collins Taylor

For 30 years, Jennifer Collins Taylor has personally and professionally explored the deep connections between life and death.

Originally from Iowa, Taylor has a Master's of Social Work from St. Ambrose University with a focus on end-of-life care. She is also a yoga therapist and a certified music practitioner, bringing harp music to the bedside of the seriously ill. When she can't be at someone's bedside personally, her instrumental harp CD, Life Beyond Words, is a source of relaxation, peace, comfort, joy and inspiration.

Taylor's personal experiences with grief and loss, combined with her intimate experiences interacting with the terminally ill, their friends and family through Hospice care, inspired her to write Living Life Dying Death: A Guide to Healthy Conversations About Death andDying to Inspire Life and Living. To support grieving individuals, she created the Mourning Bracelet, which reminds the bereaved to be gentle with themselves as they transverse the grief and mourning experience. Jennifer also conducts presentations on the value and power of open, compassionate, nonjudgmental communications surrounding matters

of life and death, and facilitates Gatherings, innovative meetings of family, friends and acquaintances for the purpose of sharing stories, experiences, beliefs, thoughts and inquiries about death and dying, life and living fully.

Currently Taylor lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., with her husband, Matthew J. Taylor, PT, PhD.Together they co-founded the Dynamic Systems Rehabilitation Clinic, a revolutionary treatment center for individuals experiencing pain, loss of mobility and reduced quality of life.