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02/11/2026

This! 👇 I love Lee Harris! He brings things forward in a very clean concise way, yet gentle enough for every day contemplation.

It is important to contemplate your life through the lens of death.

This is what brings forward what truly matters! It allows you to get clear on your goals and priorities. It has a way of cutting to the chase, clearing out the bu****it, and revealing what is truly worth your time and energy.

It deepens our appreciation for all that life has to offer right here and now. After all, if you keep putting off what matters you may get to your deathbed only to find that you ran out of time.
Death contemplation gives us the existential kick in the pants we need to start now! 💥

Death is the bringer of life, as much as you may think it takes life away. You are alive, and you have so much more to experience and create. With any of those relationships you have lost, if you can come to a place at the right moment for you of identifying what it is you most miss about those beings, those people, and that relationship you were in, then you have your blueprint of what it is you need to create next.

Because the last thing the person who has died would wish for you is that your joy of interacting with them ended with them. Their wish for you, at a soul level, is that everything they experience with you and you experience with them is something you will now build even bigger and brighter. You will be reunited with them on the other side. But for now and for good reason, you are still alive.

From - Journey from Grief to Life
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12/15/2025

Don’t let the title fool you…

It’s a really good read and something to think about as we gather with friends and family. Love doesn’t relent just because it’s teased, inconvenient, or embarrassing.

Don’t let it be too late to understand this with your loved ones.
Blessings! 🙏🏽🫶

“His love keeps reaching for his mother and touching cold air. Winter has become a season of realizing. Of noticing the absence in places once crowded with her presence. Of understanding too late that what made everything glow was not the holiday, but the woman who kept lighting the room.”

“Winter joy was her hands. Winter magic was her memory. Winter was a mother who stayed curious, stayed practical, stayed loving even when love was inconvenient, even when it was embarrassing, even when it came with magnums in a stocking.”

I met a young man this fall who is learning, in real time, how grief rearranges the calendar.

12/14/2025

There’s some pretty awesome events coming up this next month! ✨ Including our own monthly Death Cafe, we have a colleague and friend, Lindsay Vandewart, offering a FREE monthly in-person gathering on Death Education called “Dialogues on Death”.

👉 If you’re local, this is being held at the Westminster Library, 1st Monday every month through Oct 2026. Scan the QR code or go to library link below. The next one is Jan 5, 2026.

🤯 The last three sessions have been amazing! We explored meeting our mortality, a presentation from a lovely funeral home operator and insightful discussion, and last month a sound bath and discussion on grief and bereavement.

🪴The next two months are listed below. And I’m excited to hear from these people and to find out what Lindsay has in store for the next upcoming months.

🩵 She has been doing an amazing job of normalizing these topics and holding space for everyone’s thoughts and questions. And I’ve learned a lot too! I’m a firm believer in constant education, and knowledge is power!

So please join us! Let’s take the fear out of this topic and become empowered instead! 🙏🏽🫶

Hope to see some of your beautiful faces there! Blessings! 💖

https://westminsterco.librarycalendar.com/event/dialogues-death-ch-14022
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12/13/2025

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The heart is big enough to hold it all. 🍁💛🍂

12/10/2025

WISE WORDS

“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”

-Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön

12/08/2025

How End-of-Life Doulas are filling the gap and working with hospices! Such a great article on how hospices are realizing the potential of our complimentary care with their medical teams.
They are seeing improved quality of care, value and bereavement outcomes.

“There is more awareness taking place of how a doula can help a family manage more complex cases of care and needs, and really navigate and advocate for them.”

“Integrating non-clinical roles like doulas into care delivery can improve overall satisfaction and quality of life for patients and families [and] reduce stress on clinical teams by sharing the emotional and practical support workload,” Klint recently told Hospice News in an email. “[Doulas] offer companionship, help families navigate decisions without medical jargon, and create space for meaning-making. This non-clinical layer ensures that care is not only comprehensive, but also deeply human, honoring the whole person and their relationships.”

If you are curious how a doula can assist you with a loved one at the end of life, maybe already on hospice, or just aren’t sure where they’re at with this journey, please reach out. You don’t have to do this alone. This is a work of love, and I’m honored to share it. 🙏🏽🤍

Hospices can benefit from staying abreast of the latest innovations in end-of-life doula care delivery, particularly when it comes to seeing improved

12/07/2025

Come to the bench, sit with me…

These are my musings on life and things that come up for me, and hopefully a way to share some insights and ponderings. I would love for you all to share your thoughts.

You hear a lot about the subject of Forgiveness. But what does it really mean? There doesn’t seem to be a straightforward answer to that. It is up to that person and their journey.

From my experience and perception of a soul journey, it can be profoundly transformative. It can heal at a level that nothing else can. It frequently shows up at the bedside, at end of life. Usually something is wanting to be forgiven or reconciled. This is part of my work as an End-of-Life Doula, to facilitate these conversations, if possible, and allow for what comes up in a safe and sacred space. Always meeting people where they are. This allows for acceptance and a more peaceful transition.

There are many things that don’t get processed before leaving the body. And we have to be ok with that…it is their journey. But it can sometimes create a more agitated transition. Not always, but sometimes. Regrets and Forgiveness seem to be the biggest factors at end of life.

The soul is wanting reconciliation and healing before it leaves. The ego is still fighting to the end. It will always be a choice and their soul journey for that individual, and their co-creation with others. We may never know the big picture in that journey while we are still embodied, but there always is one…and it always involves growth and expansion.

For me personally this has involved forgiveness first and foremost for myself, I did the best I could under the circumstances and with the knowledge I had at the time. Life is learning each day, and sometimes that learning can be the very next day, you realize you shouldn’t have said something or reacted that way. And sometimes it comes over years as we grow and change.

Next it’s about forgiveness of others. This is NOT about condoning any abusive behavior. But loving ourselves enough to not carry this heavy weight and moving out of victim hood.

It’s about growing and not allowing others to live in your head and bring you down. It’s about becoming empowered. It’s about reframing and discovering the gift that came from the co-creation. And that can be very difficult! I’ve personally struggled with this. But I had to stop blaming other people and take a good hard look at where playing the victim kept me stuck. What did it teach me? How am I now using those experiences to help others?

And sometimes the journey doesn’t look like this. It’s about being ok with an unreconciled situation and not being reciprocated. But moving forward with that understanding and still loving ourselves enough to become empowered.

Below are some ideas about how forgiveness can look.
These are not mine, but I invite you to consider them. They may just shift a perspective enough to invite in some healing. And the soul is always encouraging that! 😇

👉 From Kyle Gray - ANGELS AND THE MIRACLE OF FORGIVENESS

“The Principles of Forgiveness:”

“✨Forgiveness is a deeply profound acceptance of our holiness.”

“✨Forgiveness is the total acceptance that we are all equal.”

“✨Forgiveness is honouring the divine in others and ourselves.”

“✨Forgiveness is the moment we step back into our true self.”

“✨Forgiveness is the moment we let love be our source of power.”

“✨Forgiveness is the welcome home to peace.”

“✨Forgiveness is the awakening of our inner vision.”

“✨Forgiveness is a celebration — the angels dance with joy.”

“✨Forgiveness is remembering our innocence.”

“✨Forgiveness is loving ourselves enough not to accept bad behaviour.”

“✨Forgiveness is when someone else’s errors no longer affect our happiness.”

“✨Forgiveness is the opening to a love that’s ever-present.”

“✨Forgiveness digests toxicity and initiates healing.”

“✨Forgiveness is the remembering that we can never really be hurt, for nothing can tarnish our soul.”

This time of year can bring up a lot of unprocessed emotions. Be gentle with yourself. Peace and blessings to you all! 🙏🏽🕊️💞
✨🫶✨🫶✨🫶✨🫶✨🫶✨

11/19/2025

This rings so true for me right now! The homeless in our country is astonishing. I always ask, what can I do? As I am one small drop in an ocean of fraught systems, bureaucracies, politics, socioeconomic issues, and on, and on…

My experience yesterday brought to me to my open heart and tears. 💔
You see there was a woman and her child asking for help/money outside the grocery store I went to. She was not at the entrance, but a ways away on the outskirts of the parking lot. I noticed that. She was respectful enough to not confront people going in/out. She didn’t want to be in their face. She was holding a sign. I don’t know what it said, and it doesn’t matter.

When I came out they were still there. I don’t always give money, but this situation grabbed me. I only had a small amount of cash on me. And I thought, it’s not enough for a meal, but it’s something. It was my small drop in her ocean of needs for her and her child.

As I was leaving the parking lot I stopped, and as I gave her my donation she said “thank you for stopping”. Not thank you for the money, she didn’t even have that in her hand yet. But thank you for stopping. To me it felt like she was grateful for just being seen and noticed. Because as a society, we look the other way. I know I have. It’s hard to look these people in the face when you’re in your nice warm car with clothing and plenty to eat. It’s hard to face their reality. It’s hard to imagine how they got there. It’s hard to think, “that could be me”. Because nowadays it’s a slippery slope to poverty.

I noticed her little girl wasn’t dressed warm enough for the cool night. She was maybe 7-8 yrs and had a ragged blanket. Her daughter smiled and thanked me and wished me a Happy Thanksgiving. My heart broke! In all of this, she had gratitude. I looked at her mother and said, please stay warm, and gave her my heartfelt blessings. I didn’t know what to say. What do you say? Again, my offering was a drop in her ocean of problems.

I drove away in tears. But then I noticed in my rear view window, there were other women approaching her. Hopefully helping her. So I was hopeful that she and her daughter would have enough money to pay for a meal and a warm place to stay for the night.

I sent more blessings and prayers and asked for all the angels to surround her with love and light and lift her up. ✨🙏🏽
I had to believe she will be okay. My pity wasn’t going to do her any good. I had to see her in an elevated condition.
….Nonetheless, it still broke my heart that a mother and her child have to beg for money to feed themselves, in this day and age, in our country. 😔
But I also have to have hope that I am one small drop in her ocean! 🩵
Blessings to everyone and share your drops in whatever way calls you! 🙏🏽🫶

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"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." –Saint Mother Teresa

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