November 05, 2018

Tricia Barker:What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation

Tricia Barker experienced a profound near-death experience during her senior year of college, and this experience guided her to teach overseas, in public schools, and at the college level. Her near-death experience story has been featured on I Survived: Beyond and Back and covered in National Geographic.


Tricia’s memoir, Angels in the OR: What Dying Taught Me About Healing, Survival, and Transformation, will be available for purchase in the summer of 2019. This book tells a story of her near-death experience, teaching mission, and eventual triumph over trauma in her past. It also focuses on the importance being of service to the world.


Tricia teaches English at a beautiful community college in Fort Worth, and interviews near-death experiencers, researchers, and healers on her YouTube Channel. Tricia’s poetry and essays have been published in several publications including The Binnacle, The Paterson Literary Review, and The Midwest Quarterly.