Death Doula Professionals

05/29/2026

The divorce wave of the seventies and eighties produced a generation of children who learned, out of necessity, to make their needs smaller. Those children are now providing end-of-life care for the parents who reorganized the household around adult necessity — and the implicit contract between them has never been formally renegotiated.

A death doula holds the full weight of that history.

Read more - https://deathdoulaprofessionals.com/blog/family/a-death-doula-holds-what-the-divorce-decade-left/

The divorce revolution reshaped American family life, and a death doula holds what that history still costs at the deathbed.

05/29/2026

Understanding what to expect can bring clarity, confidence, and peace of mind.

05/26/2026

The loneliness of being heavily needed by someone who does not truly know you is one of the least-acknowledged experiences in end-of-life caregiving. It is not burnout, not grief, not resentment — it is something more specific, and it carries its own weight long after the parent is gone.

A death doula holds this precise reality with the adult child who has rarely had the chance to speak it aloud.

Read more: https://deathdoulaprofessionals.com/blog/family/needed-by-the-parent-who-never-quite-knew-you/

Family caregiving at the end of life carries histories that shape its texture — a death doula holds the full complexity of parent-child dynamics with care.

05/25/2026

Happy Memorial Day

05/19/2026

Looking forward to attending this workshop. The anointing ritual is always something family remember as a special tradition. Hope you can join!

Calling my fellow deathcare workers! This Thursday (5/21) I'm leading a workshop on Anointing Rituals.

REGISTER HERE:
https://givebutter.com/anointing-rituals-2026

We'll talk about what anointing rituals are, how you can use them in your practice, and then we'll create and perform a ceremony. My goal is for you to finish this workshop feeling ready to incorporate this powerful, moving ritual into your own work with clients.

There is still room in the workshop. I would really love to see you there.

05/15/2026

The grief that arrives at a harmful parent's death is not simpler than the grief for a beloved one — it is more compound, carrying within it both the mourning for the person who existed and the mourning for the person who was needed and never came.

A death doula who works in this space does not require the adult child to perform a warmth the history does not support. They hold the full truth of the room alongside the person who has always held it alone.

https://deathdoulaprofessionals.com/blog/grief/death-doula-holds-what-a-difficult-parent-leaves-behind/

05/08/2026

When a parent is dying and young children are present in the same household, the adult responsible for both is managing two separate emotional realities in the same body, without a designated space in the care framework for either.

This blog post discusses what that position actually costs, what children at different ages are capable of understanding, and what a death doula can offer the generation that is grieving in two directions at once.

https://deathdoulaprofessionals.com/blog/family/a-death-doula-holds-the-parent-caught-between-two-griefs/

05/05/2026

One of the perks of this work is that I get to help fulfill wishes of clients!

05/01/2026

For years, the adult child who manages a parent's decline carries the quiet conviction that they will be ready. What arrives at the death is not a continuation of that preparation but something categorically different: the first encounter with a world in which that particular person no longer exists within it.

A death doula holds the adult child who discovers, to their own surprise, that composure through the dying was not the same as completing the grief.

https://deathdoulaprofessionals.com/blog/grief/no-amount-of-readiness-prepares-a-child-to-lose-a-parent/

04/29/2026

Thank you to the family of Mary Margaret and Bill Levine, whoever you are, for adding such a wonderful bench to our openspace.

Tucked in to the trees and with a view of the is a wonderful surprise to my daily walk!