A friend til the end - end of life doula

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A friend til the end - end of life doula

I hold a peaceful space for those dying, and their families, by providing support and companionship.

24/06/2025

I love Hospice Nursejulie - this is a great clip, am looking forward to listening to the full podcast.

I remember not long before my Mum passed, she was having a conversation with someone I could not see. When I asked her who she was talking to she said “your Dad of course” like I was a fool 🤣. He had died only a few weeks before.

20/06/2025

Weekend vibes in this house. Coffee ☕️ Spanish lesson on Duo Lingo and some gardening and house jobs before dinner out with friends tonight.

Will be conscious of the ripples. 🧡

19/06/2025

Hello again 👋🏼
It’s been a little while between posts, hasn’t it?

Since I last wrote here, life has... well, lifed.

I’ve been navigating a marriage breakdown (my second, because why not make midlife extra spicy 🌶️), selling a house, holding it together for my beautiful teens, and having some big, brave conversations with myself about what really matters.

But through it all — grief, change, heartache and hard choices — I’ve been reminded, again and again, why I love this work so deeply.

In the past few months, I’ve had the honour of doula-ing two beautiful souls at the end of their lives. Sitting by their beds, holding space, helping their families breathe, remember, and just be.
No fancy titles, no big agendas — just presence. Love. Humanity.

And I’m so ready to dive back into doing more of this sacred work.

So if you’re new here, or you’ve been quietly following along — welcome. A Friend Til the End is where we talk about death (with heart, not horror), planning (with grace, not panic), and living well now, while we still can.

More posts, offerings, and soulful conversations coming your way soon.
I’ve missed this space — and I’m glad to be back 🖤

Love,
Debbie
x

24/11/2024

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28/10/2024

A tragic accident in our small town on Friday took the life of a young man who was the same age as my Son, and whom was in two of his primary school classes all those years ago.

I have not been able to think of much else since then, his poor family, his friends, his ;loved ones.

I saw this on the same day, only an hour or so after the accident.

I hope this with every fibre of my being.

23/03/2024

Joy. My favourite. 💛💛💛

22/03/2024

What a lovely little Saturday morning treat, this popping up in my memories.

Thing 1 - the happiest smiliest little cute head ever. I remember taking this photo, I had flown over to see my parents in Spain, surprised them, they’d not met their Grandson and it was one of the highlights of my life, seeing their faces when they realised we were there, and spending those precious weeks with them hanging out.

Dad - so healthy, tanned and happy to have us there. He loved hanging with Harps, he really got so much joy from it, it was brilliant to witness.

I wish I could spend a day with them both when they were like this.

Thing 1 Tiny. Cute. Happy. Sweet.

Dad. Healthy. Relaxed. Happy. Tanned. Alive 😆

I love Facebook memories because they remind me every day that memories are really all that matters.

Happy Saturday everyone 😘

PS: thanks for the olive skin gene Dad, I love me a tan too!

19/03/2024

As I sit here working on something VERY exciting, I just learned that around 60% of Australians do not have a will.

I just CAN NOT believe that (although I can really, because when I ask all my friends, more than 60% of them say they don't ha ha!).

Isn't that WILD and CRAZY?

Get organised, the peace of mind is SO valuable.

Also, if you need the estate planner of the CENTURY (totally a title I just gave her) my friend Sam TJS Law is your gal. She doesn't know I am posting this, so I hope she has heaps of time for all the new clients she's gonna get!!!

GO. AND. SORT. YOUR. WILL. OUT.

Love, me xoxoxo

11/03/2024

I am just off the phone with my friend who was telling me she had received an invite to a celebration of life which was happening BEFORE her beautiful friend has passed.

How cool is THAT? There will be 80's tunes, good food, drinks and fun and I am SO in love with this idea of a living wake, being there for your party, seeing all those faces, feeling all the love 💛⭐️😍

Another reminder to enjoy the small things each day, because we just don't know what the future holds, but at some point, for ALL of us, it will be the end.

Have you thought about how you would want it to look for you and your loved ones?

Monday musings.......have a great day! x

15/09/2023

SMEJ ❤️

The reason I started my journey to becoming an End of Life Doula.

Her passing taught me many lessons, but the one that really stays with me is “how we love is our legacy”.

She loved us all so clearly and loudly and convincingly that even when she’s not here I can feel it.

That’s a wonderful legacy indeed.

My Mum. The strongest woman I have ever known, with a huge side of mad 😜 and so many funny little quirks that make me smile often.

5 years of this chapter, yet still powerfully present here on 🌍 too.

Happy Saturday everyone.

Hug ya Mums if you can.

07/08/2023

On the day I die a lot will happen.

A lot will change.

The world will be busy.

On the day I die, all the important appointments I made will be left unattended.

The many plans I had yet to complete will remain forever undone.

The calendar that ruled so many of my days will now be irrelevant to me.

All the material things I so chased and guarded and treasured will be left in the hands of others to care for or to discard.

The words of my critics which so burdened me will cease to sting or capture anymore. They will be unable to touch me.

The arguments I believed I’d won here will not serve me or bring me any satisfaction or solace.

All my noisy incoming notifications and texts and calls will go unanswered. Their great urgency will be quieted.

My many nagging regrets will all be resigned to the past, where they should have always been anyway.

Every superficial worry about my body that I ever labored over; about my waistline or hairline or frown lines, will fade away.

My carefully crafted image, the one I worked so hard to shape for others here, will be left to them to complete anyway.

The sterling reputation I once struggled so greatly to maintain will be of little concern for me anymore.

All the small and large anxieties that stole sleep from me each night will be rendered powerless.

The deep and towering mysteries about life and death that so consumed my mind will finally be clarified in a way that they could never be before while I lived.

These things will certainly all be true on the day that I die.

Yet for as much as will happen on that day, one more thing that will happen.

On the day I die, the few people who really know and truly love me will grieve deeply.

They will feel a void.

They will feel cheated.

They will not feel ready.

They will feel as though a part of them has died as well.

And on that day, more than anything in the world they will want more time with me.

I know this from those I love and grieve over.

And so knowing this, while I am still alive I’ll try to remember that my time with them is finite and fleeting and so very precious—and I’ll do my best not to waste a second of it.

I’ll try not to squander a priceless moment worrying about all the other things that will happen on the day I die, because many of those things are either not my concern or beyond my control.

Friends, those other things have an insidious way of keeping you from living even as you live; vying for your attention, competing for your affections.

They rob you of the joy of this unrepeatable, uncontainable, ever-evaporating Now with those who love you and want only to share it with you.

Don’t miss the chance to dance with them while you can.

It’s easy to waste so much daylight in the days before you die.

Don’t let your life be stolen every day by all that you’ve been led to believe matters, because on the day you die, the fact is that much of it simply won’t.

Yes, you and I will die one day.

But before that day comes: let us live.

John Pavlovitz

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