death midwife

Soft Time: the handmade shrouds of Dina Stander

A remarkable conversation about the work and why of shrouding with documentary film maker Jan Sturman.

Considering VSED: voluntarily stopping eating & drinking

A curated selection of videos, information and resources about the decision and experience of VSED at end of life.

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Both/And Physics ~ Holding On & Letting Go

... and then figure out how I can best support the peculiar both/and physics of holding on ~ so you can let go.

How to Leave the Hospital...

... when getting home feels like a matter of life and death.

As Death Becomes Us

A meditation about our end-of-life is not the same as being our own Endling. Death is a trickster in traveling shoes. We do our best.

Dancing With the Bones: Distanced Grieving

It is ok not to be ok. We are here to companion distanced grieving because human beings are in crisis... so I took my question to the trees.

By Donation/Pay As You Can

I made a decision today, based on my commitment to radical kinship. From now on my services are offered for a pay-what-you-can donation.

Each to their island... March 2020

There is no normal to retreat to. I stop, sit, take a breath and let it go. Wiggle the toes, accept not knowing, do my best and be here now.

Companioning the Dying: say what?

However you embrace or wrastle with your own mortality, companioning the dying will bring you (as my own old dead dad would say) toe to toe

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Signs of Life