End-of-life doula

  • An end-of-life doula provides non-medical care and support for those facing a terminal illness or death. We provide companionship, support, and guidance to individuals and families as they navigate through uncharted territory.

    I consider my work to be a spiritual practice. It is a way of living, seeing life through the lens of impermanence, and honoring transitions. This includes micro deaths, those small mini deaths we experience, jobs, relationships, aging, ego deaths, seasons.

    My work includes coming alongside the living and providing guidance to the ushering of change.

  • As an end-of-life doula I provide support the following ways:

    • Companionship and/or respite care

    • Legacy projects & Life review

    • Assisting with advanced directives and death care plan

    • Bedside vigil & rituals

    • Resource & logistical support

    • Family & Community Education

    • My work is ever evolving and all encompassing. To put it in a list creates a box and I prefer to color outside the lines.

  • Is an end-of-life doula only for the dying?

    Not at all! The sooner you work with an end-of-life doula the sooner you begin to live a more present and fuller life.

    My work is around transitions, which is what a death is. Death is not a finality but a transition from an old into something new. Transitions are welcomed and honored. We do not wait to shed this skin. No, my work is about shedding all things that bind us, old belief systems and paradigms and old habits.

  • Providing individual and community sacred space to witness and explore grief and loss. Grief is experienced in our everyday, as we go through micro deaths that occur in the very nature of being alive. We may grieve broken dreams, relationships, life cycles, lost jobs. There is healing in allowing grief to run through you, in honoring what comes with recognizing it is okay to feel the loss of something. We have been taught and conditioned to put on a mask of strength, to press on, and not pause and honor the lessons and love in our grief. My work includes opening up space to let in and move with grief and loss.