Andrea Deerheart is the passionate founder of The HeartWay. Using wisdom gathered from decades of guiding the living and dying, Andrea has provided loving care and healing for those on the journey of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying.
Andrea’s primary work and teaching focuses on supporting mindful and compassionate care as well as issues related to wellness, nutritional healing, death and dying, and grief and loss. She lovingly shares the precious gifts offered by her teachers - which especially include the hundreds who have allowed her to companion them in their most vulnerable and sacred times of suffering and dying. In addition, she offers several diverse programs for living a more loving and compassionate life emphasizing the relevance of lessons-learned surrounding death.
Andrea has a very diverse education background beginning at San Diego State University, receiving a Bachelors degree in Marketing and Sociology. Her studies took a dramatic shift, after several years in the field of Marketing Development, when she became a Hospice Volunteer. This work touched her soul and changed her life forever. She has spent the past twenty-five years working in her personally designed field of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. Andrea is currently a Doctoral candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute where her studies have focused on mythology, depth psychology, comparative religions, and death, dying and beyond. She also has interest, with more than twenty-five years teaching at local universities, in the fields of nutrition and body mechanics. Andrea is a sought-after consultant, writer, and poet in her fields of expertise.
Andrea Deerheart is a wonderful and loving mother of a beautiful daughter and resides in Southern California.