Grief and death doulas are people who are unafraid of your grief. We step right into the center of it with you and ask: how can I help?

I often provide personalized support for grieving people by taking a layer of organization and day-to-day functioning off your plate for a while so you have more space and capacity to process your grief. Grieving is exhausting and lasts (forever?) longer than most people around us acknowledge. Support is needed far beyond the first few days of a loss of someone of significance.

I can:

• provide scheduled meals cooked and delivered to specification (including child-friendly options available).

• organize meal trains and other community supports.

• be a flexible and non-judgemental presence to deal with cooking, cleaning, children and family members, direct grief support, and/or errands all in the same afternoon.

• help you coordinate end-of-life tasks.

• help you honor the life of the person gone.

• help you to process grief in personalized ways (creative expression, movement, rituals and ceremonies, grief groups for/with family/friend groups).

• go for walks, read aloud to you, listen to or read something and talk with you about it (podcasts, books, memes, etc.).

• be “alone together”; often people don’t want to be physically alone while they do not want active engagement the whole time either.

• if it’s in my doula realm, I’m game! As a wise person once told me: “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.” Please ask; if I can, I will. I’ll be offering openly, too, while honoring your yes or no as to what is needed in that moment. I do not serve beyond my boundaries. You can trust that.