Twilight Doula Group, An End of Life Doula Collective

01/30/2026

01/24/2026

Emergency Shelter Update | January 24, 2026
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Our emergency shelters are working together and in constant communication to meet the needs of our community during this period of extreme cold and impending winter storm. While capacity fluctuates daily, shelters coordinate closely to adjust, problem-solve, and make space whenever possible so individuals and families can access safety.
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A few important notes for today:
• United Caring Services (UCS) and the Evansville Rescue Mission (ERM) continue to provide three hot meals per day, available to anyone.
• ERM's atrium is open with snacks and hot coffee.
• ERM's Center for Women & Children is currently at capacity and operates outside of the White Flag program to support the safety and stability of the women and children staying there.
• UCS's White Flag program normally doesn't allow for adults with children, but has made an exception during this storm. However, space for families is very limited.
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If you need immediate shelter, please go to UCS or ERM (our White Flag shelters) or reach out to the individual shelters listed below. Even those listed that are currently at capacity may get last-minute openings, so it never hurts to call.
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We plan to provide daily updates on shelter capacity.
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Thank you to our shelter teams and frontline staff who are showing up every day to ensure our community has access to warmth, food and care.

01/17/2026

12/14/2025

Is the death doula movement dying? No 🤗. Of course not. But we are clearly having a moment. Thank you Suzanne B O'Brien for these compassionate, measured, and needed words about critical trust at the moment outer care clients need us most, 💜 💫

Is the Death Doula Movement Dying?Or Is It Being Called to Grow Up?There is a quiet question being asked behind the scenes of end-of-life care—by hospices, m...

12/05/2025

11/17/2025

Before we had funeral homes… before caskets, embalming fluids, or any kind of “industry”… we had cloth.
And we had care.✨

Shrouding is one of the oldest, most universal human rituals. Every culture, every faith, every region of the world has wrapped their dead with intention and love.

In ancient Egypt, linen meant purity and rebirth. They wrapped their loved ones layer by layer, believing each fold carried them toward the next world.

In Jewish taharah, the body is washed and wrapped in plain white linen (tachrichim) as a reminder that we all leave this world exactly as we entered it: equal, humble, and pure.

In Islamic ghusl, after the ritual washing, men are wrapped in three sheets, women in five sheets- modest, simple layers that reflect unity before God, regardless of wealth or status.

In early Christian tradition, bodies were laid in winding sheets. Even Christ is described as being wrapped in linen and placed in the tomb.

In Hindu rituals, the body is bathed, dressed in fresh cloth, and wrapped in white cotton, feet facing south toward Yama, the god of death.

Across Africa, Indigenous communities, and ancient Europe, families used bark cloth, woven mats, hides or whatever the earth provided, to give their loved one back to the land that sustained them.

And in Tibetan Buddhism, even in sky burial, a body is first draped in cloth as a final act of tenderness.

No matter where you look in history, the gesture is the same:
hands wrapping fabric around a loved one, sealing care with simplicity.

It’s never been about hiding death.
It’s always been about holding it.

A shroud reminds us that the body is just a vessel, it is one that carried a soul, a laugh, a voice, a heartbeat.

In Western culture we drifted away from these practices, replacing them with chemicals and metal boxes. But with the growing green burial and home funeral movements, families are rediscovering something ancient:
the final tending is something we can do ourselves.

When you wrap someone you love in cloth, you’re participating in a ritual as old as humanity.
It’s a closing of the circle and a return to the earth that is simple, sacred, and profoundly human. 🌿✨

10/24/2025

The bees hum through the asters one last time before frost, each note a reminder that endings can still be sweet. 🍂

This week’s reflection from Songbird in a Sacrifice Zone gathers those small lessons from the land — about balance, change, and letting go with grace.

“October’s Last Bees.”

May you find gentleness in your own turning seasons. 💜
https://tinyurl.com/SSZOct24

10/07/2025

10/07/2025

10/05/2025

🌙✨ Dusk & Twilight ✨🌙
At Twilight Doula Group, we believe that end-of-life planning is less about paperwork and more about love. Our new blog series, Dusk & Twilight, opens a space for gentle storytelling, reflection, and guidance at life’s sacred thresholds.

Our first post shares how advance care planning can be a blessing of clarity — a lantern lit for those who will one day walk beside us. 💜

📖 Read the full piece here: https://twilightdoulas.com/journey-into-twilight-with-us/