Do you have kids? If not, surely you were once a child yourself. Either way you’re probably familiar with the feeling of being small and starting to understand the world around you in ways that made it difficult for your parents to explain. Maybe it was the...
Pandemic stress is legit, friends, and has taken its toll in myriad ways. Still, there is so much to be grateful for. There have been many little lightning bugs illuminating the dark corridors of the last seven months. For those of us privileged to be quarantining at...
Modern Love is my weekly ritual. It quickly became food for my soul the minute I was gifted a New York Times subscription in 2008. Now in its 16th year, the column has grown into a mini movement: a book, a podcast, and a TV series on Amazon Prime Video. ...
You may not know this about me but I am super messy. Piles left here, there and everywhere - drives Johnny (my Boo) bananas! Not dirty. Just messy. I’m a neat freak when it comes to hygiene and cleaning, but for some reason clutter doesn’t bother me. You could eat...
Death doula - soul doula - end-of-life doula - death midwife - death companion - thanadoula - end of life guide - all of these terms point in the same direction and share a similar meaning. The word ‘doula’ comes from the ancient Greeks, meaning = ‘woman’s servant’...
Hello Beloveds! So, you’ve been having all the feels? Anxiety, anger, confusion, sadness, fear - overwhelmed by grief and our cray-cray crazy current state of affairs? I hear you, friends! These big, dramatic moments unfolding around us can serve as major...
OK, fam! Before we even get started, let’s clarify one thing: Being afraid of death, having anxieties around death, or even having an obsession with death, does not make you strange, morbid or an outcast. It simply makes you human! We humans are pretty advanced and...
If you’ve spent time with the dying, as I have, you can divide them into two groups: good dyers and bad dyers. What an awful observation, you might think. Not just to judge the state of another person’s mind, but to label someone as a bad dyer is in poor taste. It...
Dying is not a medical event, dear ones. Much of what it feels like to die is shrouded with poetic mystery. It is coated in the sacred and dipped in awe. This can all feel quite ephemeral - and it is. We dove in to listen to what people who have lived through...