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đŸŒ± Life Healing, Death Transitioning đŸŒ±
- Normalizing Death Education
- 1:1 Grief Healing
- Reiki (1:1 or healing circles)
- Readings (1:1 or healing circles)
- Astrology Moon Mama
- Lover of Life

🩋 Have you ever felt called to do meaningful work that truly changes lives?Many people are drawn to this path after expe...
05/07/2026

🩋 Have you ever felt called to do meaningful work that truly changes lives?

Many people are drawn to this path after experiencing grief themselves, feeling the quiet pull to transform that experience into compassion, guidance, and support for others.

đŸȘ¶ Our Certified Death Doula Training begins June 29th, 2026.

This 6 week program is built from over 8 years of hands on end of life care and 6 years of teaching students across North America and internationally.

đŸ©¶ New for 2026
Revamped Course, Textbook, and Lectures!

đŸ–€ Students consistently share how this training has changed their lives, and families speak about the profound support they received through our graduates. You can read testimonials on Instagram in the DD highlight, or on our website.

đŸ€ 6 Weeks | 3 X each week
Materials, textbooks, and certification included.

Our certification is recognized across North America and internationally.

Learn more or register
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Send a message anytime with questions or to reserve your space. We love connecting with people who feel called to this work.

Are you someone who feels drawn to advocate, educate, and support others through life’s most sacred transitions?

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Mental health is deeply connected to end of life care. When someone is facing death, whether personally or alongside som...
05/07/2026

Mental health is deeply connected to end of life care. When someone is facing death, whether personally or alongside someone they love, emotions often become heavier, more complex, and harder to carry alone.

Fear, anticipatory grief, anxiety, exhaustion, anger, numbness, and even guilt can all exist at the same time. Compassionate end of life care recognizes that emotional and mental wellbeing matter just as much as physical comfort.

Supporting mental health at end of life means creating space for honest conversations, emotional safety, dignity, connection, and support without judgement. It means reminding people that they do not have to carry grief silently, and that being vulnerable during one of life’s hardest seasons is not weakness, it is part of being human.

Mental health is also incredibly important for Death Doulas. Taking time for healthy reflection, turning off the news, sharing difficult feelings, and reaching out is everything. Especially when working in a difficult field as this.
Burnout is real. When our brain is exhausted it has a hard time processing, and in turn our mental health suffers.

Michelle Williams became an unexpectedly important voice in grief conversations because of how honestly and quietly she ...
05/06/2026

Michelle Williams became an unexpectedly important voice in grief conversations because of how honestly and quietly she has spoken about loss, especially after Heath Ledger’s death.

She has spoken about how loss permanently changes a person, how grief does not operate on a timeline, and how people often expect mourners to “move on” far sooner than is realistic.

One of the most powerful things she normalized was continuing bonds. In grief education and death doula work, continuing bonds refers to the understanding that love and connection with someone do not simply disappear because they died.

Michelle has spoken in ways that reflect grief naturally, especially when discussing raising her daughter after Heath Ledger’s death. Rather than speaking as though he vanished from their lives emotionally, she speaks about the lasting imprint of love and loss.

Her openness has helped normalize several things that society still struggles with:
‱ Young widowhood and partner loss
‱ Parenting while grieving
‱ Grief that lasts for years
‱ Emotional numbness and disorientation after sudden death
‱ The idea that healing does not erase loss
‱ Protecting mourners from public consumption
‱ Living alongside grief instead of “overcoming” it

In many ways, Michelle Williams represents a quieter side of the death positive movement. Not activism through loud campaigns, but through emotional honesty, refusal to deny grief, and allowing mourning to remain human instead of performative.

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đŸ’ƒđŸ»Red Dress Day, observed on May 5th, is a day of remembrance, visibility, and truth. Across Canada, red dresses are hun...
05/05/2026

đŸ’ƒđŸ»Red Dress Day, observed on May 5th, is a day of remembrance, visibility, and truth. Across Canada, red dresses are hung in trees, on fences, in windows, and along roadsides, each one representing an Indigenous woman, girl, or Two Spirit person who has been taken, gone missing, or left without justice.

đŸ’ƒđŸ»The dresses move in the wind as if carrying presence, as if reminding us that these are not just statistics, they are lives, families, stories, and futures that were never allowed to unfold.

đŸ’ƒđŸ»There is something deeply unsettling and deeply sacred about seeing an empty dress. It confronts us with absence in a way that words cannot. It asks us to feel what has been ignored for far too long.

đŸ’ƒđŸ»There is a stretch of Highway 16 in British Columbia called the highway of tears. It has become one of the most well known and heartbreaking symbols of this crisis. For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been murdered along this highway, many while simply trying to get from one place to another. Limited transportation, systemic poverty, and the lasting impacts of colonial policies, pushing these communities to remote and isolated lands have created conditions where hitchhiking became a necessity, not a choice. And in that vulnerability, many never made it home.

đŸ’ƒđŸ»But the Highway of Tears is not just one road. It represents a pattern that exists across the country. It speaks to a system that has consistently failed Indigenous women, where cases are overlooked, under investigated, or dismissed entirely.

đŸ’ƒđŸ»To honour Red Dress Day means more than wearing red or sharing a post. It means being willing to sit with the discomfort, to learn the history that is often not taught, and to support real change. It means advocating for safer transportation, better investigation practices, and systems that actually value Indigenous lives. It also means holding space for grief, not trying to fix it or explain it away, but witnessing it with respect.

đŸ’ƒđŸ»The dresses you see today are not empty. They are full of presence, memory, and a call that is still echoing across this country.

This work asks something of you.It asks you to slow down. To listen differently. To be present in a way most people have...
05/02/2026

This work asks something of you.

It asks you to slow down. To listen differently. To be present in a way most people have never been taught.

It asks you to look at your own relationship with death, grief, control, and discomfort before you step into someone else’s.

In person, that becomes even more real.

You’re not hiding behind a screen. You’re in the room. You’re feeling it. You’re practicing it. You’re being witnessed in it.

So no, this is not for everyone.

But if you’ve been the one people come to in the hardest moments, if you feel this pull that you can’t quite explain, if you know you’re meant to do this work in a real and practical way


Then you already know.

Become a Death Doula

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This path, our course, it’s not for everyone.If you’re looking for something quick, something light, something you can s...
05/01/2026

This path, our course, it’s not for everyone.

If you’re looking for something quick, something light, something you can skim through and call yourself certified after a few easy videos, this is not it.

If you want surface level conversations about death that stay comfortable and avoid the real parts, this is not it.

If you’re not ready to sit with grief without trying to fix it, to be in rooms where emotions are raw and real and sometimes messy, this is not it.

If you’re hoping someone will give you scripts and perfect words so you never feel uncertain, this is not it.

This course, this work, this path asks more of you.

To find out more and Become A Death Doula please visit our website!
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Today marks the last day of World Spouse Bereavement Month.Sending love to all who lost their partner. ❀
04/30/2026

Today marks the last day of World Spouse Bereavement Month.

Sending love to all who lost their partner.

❀

Subtle coercion at the end of life is rarely intentional, which is exactly why it goes unnoticed. It does not look like ...
04/29/2026

Subtle coercion at the end of life is rarely intentional, which is exactly why it goes unnoticed. It does not look like pressure, it sounds like care, concern, or guidance. But underneath it, there is an influence being placed on a dying person’s choices.

It isn’t just what is said. It’s HOW it’s said. It’s when it’s said. It’s who says it.

It creates a lot of pressure on the dying person to perform for others. In life and death our decisions, should be just that. OURs.

Where this becomes especially complex is that no one thinks they are coercing. Families believe they are encouraging.
Doctors believe they are informing. But the cumulative effect can steer decisions away from what the dying person might have chosen if they felt completely free.

As a Death Doula we get to slow down this moment. We get to ask:
“What do you want this to look like?”
“What matters most to you right now?”
“How do you feel when you hear that option?”

We can also reflect language back in a way that creates awareness without confrontation.
“I’m hearing a lot of hope around continuing treatment. I’m also wondering how you’re feeling in your body about that.”

It is not about correcting anyone, it is about making the space more honest.

Because true autonomy at the end of life is not just about having options. It is about being able to choose without feeling pulled, managed, or emotionally responsible for everyone else in the room.

That level of freedom is desperately missing in death care.

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Bill Murray speaks on death in a way that he weaves it into how he talks about being alive, and you can feel that he und...
04/28/2026

Bill Murray speaks on death in a way that he weaves it into how he talks about being alive, and you can feel that he understands impermanence on a very real level.

A lot of what he circles back to is presence. He has said, in different ways over the years, that when you fully understand you are going to die, it sharpens everything. It pulls you into the moment in a way that nothing else really can. Not in a dramatic or fearful way, but in a very grounded, almost quiet clarity.

There is also this thread in how he lives, not just what he says. He is known for showing up unexpectedly, talking to strangers, inserting himself into ordinary moments. That behaviour often gets written off as quirky, but when you look at it through a death aware lens, it feels more intentional. It is almost like he refuses to live in a disconnected or overly controlled way.

He leans into the randomness of life, into human connection, into moments that cannot be repeated. That is a very death aware way of moving through the world. He has also touched on the idea that people are often not really living because they are avoiding the reality of dying. They distract themselves, numb out, or stay busy, but do not fully engage.

Bill teaches us that death is like an undercurrent. Life matters because it ends. Connection matters because it is temporary. And when you actually let that in, even just a little, you start to live differently, more open, more present, and a lot less afraid of what is coming.

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One of the complexities of childhood trauma is that it does not always present itself as a clear memory. Many people can...
04/28/2026

One of the complexities of childhood trauma is that it does not always present itself as a clear memory. Many people cannot recall specific events, especially from very early childhood, yet they live with the emotional and physiological imprint of those experiences. The body remembers what the mind cannot always access. Early memory formation is limited, but the nervous system still encodes the feeling of what happened, whether that was fear, abandonment,
confusion, or instability.

A person’s response to death is not just about their current circumstances. It is shaped by how they have experienced connection throughout their life, beginning in early childhood. The individual who fears abandonment may struggle deeply with the process of letting go. The individual who learned to suppress emotion may appear calm on the surface while experiencing significant internal distress. The individual who developed strong self reliance may resist support, even when it is needed.

Recognizing these patterns allows for a more nuanced approach to end of life care. It invites presence that is
responsive rather than prescriptive. It allows space for the person to be met where they are, rather than where we expect them to be.

This reminds us that every person carries a history that extends beyond what is visible. That life, death, happiness, and grief are layered, shaped by both past and present. That healing is possible, not by erasing what was, but by creating space for what can still be, even in our final moments.

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My coaching is immersive, honest, and deeply practical, where we shape your skills, your scope, and your business in rea...
04/26/2026

My coaching is immersive, honest, and deeply practical, where we shape your skills, your scope, and your business in real time, not just in theory.

Find your clients, bring in real income, make an incredible difference.

If you feel called to this path but don’t want to figure it out alone. This program is where your work becomes real, grounded, and calls in the people who need you.

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