Yogis Choice

02/02/2026

✨ It’s official—I’m listed on my first Death Doula website. ✨

Two years of learning, growing, and following my heart have led me here. 💛

Dad, this one is for you. Your death inspired me to use my gifts to help others find sacredness, peace, and meaning at the end of life.

Holding space, guiding, and supporting people through life’s most profound transition is my calling—and I couldn’t have done it without the lessons your love left me. 🖤



DISCLAIMER

The Death Doula Ontario Network, its members and administrators do not offer any medical, legal or funeral advice or services. We provide valuable education and guidance for those managing end of life care.

02/01/2026

✨ The Art of a Mandala ✨

For a Buddhist monk, creating a mandala is more than art—it’s a journey. 🎨🕉️

🌸 Meditation in Motion: Every detail is placed with focus, cultivating mindfulness and inner peace.
🌌 A Symbol of the Universe: The patterns reflect balance, harmony, and the path to enlightenment.
🙏 Ritual & Offering: Sand mandalas are often offered to the community and then gently dismantled, reminding us of life’s impermanence.
💫 Personal Transformation: Patience, devotion, and presence grow with every intricate step.

A mandala is a reminder that beauty, focus, and impermanence live hand in hand.

How do you bring sacredness and ritual into your life?

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02/01/2026

🌿✨ Death is universal, but the ways we honor it are beautifully diverse.
Cultural awareness helps us understand traditions, rituals, and beliefs around death, so we can provide care and support that truly respects each individual’s journey. 🌏🕊

What do you honour? What’s your beliefs!

01/25/2026

It is not possible to die without having some psychological distress or suffering —and those emotions matter.
Fear, grief, anger, and uncertainty are not failures of the process; they are part of being human. What matters is that they are acknowledged, not dismissed as “just part of dying.”

Quality of life still matters at the end.
People tend to die as they have lived, and it’s unrealistic to expect we can change personalities or suddenly turn dysfunction into harmony. But when psychological suffering is ignored, it limits pleasure, meaning, and connection—and can even amplify physical pain.

Honouring emotional and psychological truth is part of compassionate care.

Presence, validation, and understanding can ease suffering in ways medicine alone cannot. 🤍

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01/19/2026

You can mirror another’s path, but their purpose is not your destiny.
Your spirit came here with a unique mission—and it can only unfold when you stand in your own truth.

01/17/2026

12/30/2025

Why we don’t create New Year’s resolutions at Yogi’s Choice

At Yogi’s Choice, we honour the wisdom that already lives within you.

New Year’s resolutions often come from the mind’s desire to control, fix, or rush transformation.
Spirituality teaches us something softer—and far more powerful:

When we listen deeply, life shows us the way.

The practice is not about becoming more.
It is about remembering.

January is not a command to start over.
It is a threshold—a quiet invitation to pause, breathe, and notice what is unfolding.

Rather than resolutions, we sit with:
• Intentions that rise from the heart
• Practices that soothe the nervous system
• Ritual instead of rigidity
• Trust in divine timing and inner rhythm

In our spiritual practice, growth is cyclical, not linear.
There is a season for effort, and a season for rest.
Both are sacred.

At Yogi’s Choice, we walk alongside you as you return—
to breath,
to body,
to spirit,
to the truth that you are already whole.

No fixing.
No forcing.
Just presence, practice, and devotion.

12/28/2025

Grief isn’t limited to death.
It’s a human response to loss, change, and the shattering of what we thought life would look like.

Here are some forms of grief we often carry quietly:

• Anticipatory grief — grieving something before it’s gone: a diagnosis, a transition, a goodbye that hasn’t happened yet.
• Identity grief — mourning who you used to be before illness, trauma, parenthood, caregiving, or survival reshaped you.
• Dream grief — letting go of plans, timelines, or futures you imagined that can no longer unfold the same way.
• Relationship grief — the loss of connection, safety, or closeness even when someone is still alive.
• Health grief — grieving a body that no longer moves, feels, or functions as it once did.
• Seasonal or life-stage grief — milestones that arrive differently than expected… or don’t arrive at all.
• Ambiguous grief — loss without closure, clarity, or permission to fully mourn.
• Collective grief — carrying the weight of the world, community, or generational pain.

If you’re grieving something others can’t see, it still counts.
If your loss doesn’t have a funeral, it still matters.

Grief asks to be witnessed — not compared, rushed, or explained away.
And healing doesn’t mean forgetting; it means learning how to carry what changed you with tenderness.

✨ Be gentle with yourself. You’re not behind — you’re healing. ✨

12/28/2025

As this year comes to a close, we stand in a sacred threshold —
between what has been lost and what is still becoming.

For those carrying grief, these final days can feel especially tender.
Time slows. Memories surface. The heart remembers.

This in-between space is not asking you to be healed,
or hopeful,
or ready.

It is simply asking you to be honest.

What have I survived this year?
What pain has shaped me?
What am I ready to loosen my grip on — even just a little?

Grief is not something to move past.
It is something to be walked with,
listened to,
and honored as love that has changed form.

May you enter the new year carrying less expectation,
more compassion for yourself,
and a quiet trust that healing does not rush — it unfolds.

You are not behind.
You are becoming. 🕊️

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12/22/2025

How to Survive the Holidays

Advice from an End-of-Life Doula

The holidays often ask us to be joyful on command.
But when you’re grieving, caregiving, exhausted, or quietly carrying fear, that demand can feel impossible.

From the perspective of end-of-life care, here is what truly matters:

1. You don’t have to perform happiness
Love does not require cheerfulness. Presence is enough. If all you can offer is honesty, quiet, or tears—those are sacred too.

2. Traditions are allowed to change
Rituals are meant to support life, not trap it. You are not failing the holidays by doing less. You are adapting to reality.

3. Rest is not laziness—it is medicine
In end-of-life spaces, we honour the body’s need to slow down. You are allowed to cancel, leave early, or stay home.

4. Grief doesn’t ruin the holidays—silencing it does
Speak the names of the people you miss. Light a candle. Set a place at the table. Love and grief coexist.

5. Boundaries are an act of love
“No” is a complete sentence. Protecting your nervous system is not selfish—it’s essential.

6. You are not required to explain your pain
You don’t owe anyone a backstory to justify your feelings. Your experience is valid, even when invisible.

7. Small moments count
A warm drink. A quiet walk. One honest conversation. End-of-life care teaches us that meaning lives in the smallest things.

8. This season will pass
Nothing lasts forever—not even this heaviness. You are allowed to simply survive it.

If you’re moving through the holidays with loss, uncertainty, or exhaustion:

You are not broken.
You are human.
And you are doing enough.