The After Project

08/19/2025

07/25/2025

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Someone asked me if I still feel anything when someone dies, or if I have become numb to death after all the years I’ve spent in end-of-life care, and all the goodbyes and deaths I have witnessed. The question caught me off guard, not because it was offensive, but because it reminded me of how mis...

07/12/2025

“Make sure your soul gains more than your hands.” Felt this one.

07/03/2025

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06/23/2025

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/health-canada-psilocybin-1.7566289

The Federal Court of Appeal is ordering Canada's Health Minister to rethink a 2022 refusal to grant exemptions to 96 health-care professionals from using dried hallucinogenic mushrooms as part of experiential training that will allow them to administer the drugs to patients.

06/19/2025

Dying a gradual death, as opposed to dying suddenly, has certain patterns that tend to accompany it. There are similarities that can be found in most people as they approach death from disease or old age.

Our personality and how we have lived our life up to this point are major factors in how we will live between diagnosis and death. Just because we are approaching death doesn’t mean our tools for approaching life are any different than they have always been.

We will meet the challenge of dying in the same manner we have met our other challenges in life. After all, dying is just one more challenge — a big one, maybe the biggest of our whole life — but still just another life experience.

If we are a controlling person, we will seek to have maximum control over this experience, too. We will probably tell the physicians what we will and won’t do. We will probably do volumes of online research (By the way, we all should do information gathering about our illness and treatment options.)

If we run away from our challenges, we will probably be in denial. The doctors are wrong or we will “beat this thing” no matter the evidence to the contrary.

If we are an introvert we may feel compelled to not tell others what we are thinking or feeling. Introverts need to be careful, as that is a lonely path.

If we are organized we will make sure our affairs are in order. We will have our living wills, advanced directives, and DNRs in place. We will make sure our important goodbyes are said.

You see where I am going with this. Look at how a person is living their life, and you will understand how they will live as their death approaches.

We don’t change our patterns because we are dying. HOWEVER being told death will come is an opportunity. It is an opportunity to address life differently.

06/12/2025

Death can bring loved ones together, but it can also put strain on family relationships. A death doula can be helpful for navigating the sometimes challenging conversations and dynamics that emerge at end-of-life.

We developed our guide, "End of Life Conversations: Navigating Challenges and Family Roles," in collaboration with the End of Life Doula Association of Canada (EOLDAC), to share insights into common struggles families face surrounding end-of-life conversations.

Download here. https://ow.ly/HPXP50VahqQ

06/08/2025

05/31/2025

~ Impermanence is the doorway to possibility, embracing it is where freedom lies

04/15/2025

I’ve yet to experience this space but am drawn to it and hear great first hand accounts.
Sharing this local spot hosting some amazing events in its space and this one centres grief. 🙏

04/14/2025

There is no right or wrong way to grieve. The only way to do it is allow yourself to feel whatever you feel. And the only way to help someone in their process is to allow them to go through it at their own pace, in their own way.

04/12/2025

💭“I was sitting at home looking at my loved ones’ urns and I just thought, this is their happy ending?? There has to be something more.”

🎧 Stream our latest podcast interview, Ashes to Earth on Life’s Undertaking by the dynamic duo .mike !💥

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