You don’t know how valuable planning and life logistical organization are until you have been through a death. Death is tremendously hard, even when you have everything in order. Gift yourself and your family the peace and ease of getting your information, preferences, legal documents, ceremonial wishes in place. Individual and group facilitation available.
Your body, your choice.
But so often we don’t know the options available to us. We have relied on the traditional funeral model because we were’t aware of Living Funerals, Green Burials, or Home Funerals. As a part of the planning process, we share information on options available to you and your loved ones so you are empowered to make decisions for death that honor your life.
End of Life planning 101 - For Individuals, couples, group of friends, or organizations
End of Life planning after a diagnosis
Dying is not merely a medical event; it is a transformative and sacred experience for everyone involved, especially the person who is dying. Engaging with an end-of-life doula offers essential support to the dying individual and their loved ones. We don’t teach anyone how to die, we witness and accompany people in their process, advocating for their deepest desires and wishes every step of the way. Doulas answer questions about the dying process, demystify and clarify what can feel confusing, ensure that death wishes are respected, provide companionship, and facilitate rituals for all participants in the journey of dying.
When someone is dying, it is the separation of their soul from their body. There are many layers and stages to loss. Rituals and ceremony helps to prepare and validate ones life and living.
It is legal to keep people home after death has taken place. Ritual bathing can be a beautiful way to say goodbye. Shrouding your loved one, sending them on their way with notes, flowers or personal objects can feel nurturing to those who are saying goodbye. These are examples of rituals and ceremony offered but there are so many more ways to mark each chapter of this journey that feels best to the person dying and their community.
Sitting Vigil
Vigil sitting is the practice of compassionate presence when someone is in an active dying stage. It is an incredible sensitive and sacred time. As a doula, I’m here to facilitate this environment in a way that honors the sacredness that it is through guidance and in person support.
Conversations around death demystify the process of dying and ground people’s perceptions in realities instead of projecting fear.
End of Life Planning - Supporting your team or organization by touching base with their mortality, their aliveness,
The Love Meeting - What do we love about life?! This workshop explores our deepest feelings around love and uses this information to create plans, facilitate legacy projects and more.
Death Cafes - Not a grief workshop, a death cafe is an open forum for people to speak freely about death and dying. Ask your questions, share a fear, connect over our collective confusion and avoidance.
Death Over Dinner - YES, you can have fun while talking about dying! Death over dinner is a curated dinner party experience that explores our living and our relationship to death. There is homework! There is food! There is Wine! There is Connection! Leave feeling ALIVE.
Workshops on advanced care planning and post-death options, death cafes, Climate grief, and more that play with and explore conversations around our mortality and relationship to life.
Gathering with people and talking about what is so often taboo to talk about reminds us that death is natural, and the fears we have are shared opportunities to learn and connect.
Peacing Together
Grief needs to be witnessed.
Grief needs to be channeled.
Grief needs to be supported.
We understand that the dying process is only one aspect of loss. There is no right way to grieve, no linear process to your relationships of love.
As a doula I offer grief exploration for the person dying, their loved ones and in a group setting.