Doula (/ˈduːlə/): companion, advocate, assistant

Death awareness is at the core of all of my facilitations. Growth is only possible through the deaths of an attachment, identity, series of stories or environment. The full spectrum and cycle of Life is not without death. Death is in seasonal change, spontaneity, crises and preparatory and abrupt transitions. Death begins at Birth.

My role as a death doula is about compassionate accompaniment through the transitions, loss and death of all forms and seasons. Death doulaship is a lifestyle that embraces our human compassionate impulse to Be in presence with one another.

In exploring death, our teacher of the abyss and the unknown, we uncover societally normalized/numbed fears or stigmas around the cycles of our nature, implicit biases, and limitations that hold us from perceiving wider truths and possibilities. By investigating our own death-denial, we learn “what gets in the way of a good life, which in turn gets in the way of a good death.”

I study the transpersonal spectrum of death that is experienced beyond words — dreams, visions, extrasensory perceptions, synchronicities, symbolic occurrences, and more.

Student with Elizabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation of Mexico

End-of-Life, EOL Care include:

• Bringing closure to unresolved issues

• Facilitating life review process

• Facilitating end-of-life planning

• Exploring interventions for comfort

• Creating remembrances

• Meaning making and story telling

• Companionship through the end-of-life journey and grief

• Dreamwork nearing end of life

• EOL care can begin at any time