Loving Last Wishes

12/22/2023

Happy solstice 🕯️ ☀️

07/01/2023

Today’s reminder: Take a moment to slow down and notice. Admire the sun, feel its warmth, notice the trees, listen to the sounds. 🙏🏻 ✨ Notice how you feel after just a few minutes. I hope you find some glimmers of peace and joy today.

12/14/2022

What an incredible option. What do you think?

What is Parting Stone? Parting Stone creates solidified cremated remains in a shape of stones. Each person produces between 40 - 60 individual "stones". Why Stones? They can provide a tactile and beautiful alternative to ashes. They create new options for interacting with ashes and integrating their presence in our lives, homes, or environments. The Stones also provide a way of sharing portions with different individuals who may have been special in your persons life.

08/20/2022

Let this sink in ♥️✨

06/16/2022

Please take a minute to read this article, featuring two of the most wonderful people that I have met in our deathcare industry 🙏🏻♥️ KORU Cremation Burial Ceremony Be Ceremonial DeathCare BC

When loved ones pass, they are often rushed to a funeral home and quickly hidden from public view. But these women facilitate a slower, gentler process

05/27/2022

I like to remind people to slow down, so it was nice for me to get that same reminder last weekend 🍃 🌲 thank you 🙏🏻♥️ .

05/12/2022

Dying isn’t about the disease a person has.

It is about the emotional, communal response to the person dying from the disease.

It doesn’t require medical intervention. It requires comfort care and communal guidance.

Comfort care is meeting the physical needs—nutrition and knowing when it is okay to stop concentrating on food.

Comfort care is comfort management: skin care, positioning, mouth care, physical pain, and emotional pain.

Communal guidance is support and attention to family and significant others involved with a person who can’t be fixed.

Communal guidance is education about the signs of approaching death, about comfort care, pain or no pain at end of life, and eating or not eating.

Communal guidance is time spent with family and significant others. It isn’t necessarily about the words said after education, but the time spent.

Communal guidance is bereavement support following the death. It is more than a card. It is phone calls and visits.

Dying isn’t about the disease a person has. It is so much more.

04/03/2022

Hi everyone. 👋🏻 This is me (and my dog in the background).
Asking for help, reaching out for support, and putting yourself out there can bring up so many feelings and emotions. If you reach out to me, please know that I am here, without judgement, for all of it.

04/01/2022

A mother says she's survived the loss of her 30-year-old son thanks to her death doula.

03/23/2022

I am really enjoying building my “community” these days. Part of that is joining local networks and associations. One of these is the Death Doula Network of BC. You can now find me on their website 😊 Looking forward to the next meeting 🙏🏻💕 .