Dina StanderFeb 8, 20215 minConsidering VSED: voluntarily stopping eating & drinkingA curated selection of videos, information and resources about the decision and experience of VSED at end of life.
Dina StanderDec 30, 20203 minBoth/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.
Dina StanderDec 21, 20205 minHow to Leave the Hospital...... when getting home feels like a matter of life and death.
Dina StanderSep 11, 20205 minAs Death Becomes UsA 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.
Dina StanderApr 7, 202017 minDancing With the Bones: Distanced GrievingIt 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.
Dina StanderMar 25, 20204 minBy Donation/Pay As You CanI 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.
Dina StanderMar 23, 20202 minEach to their island... March 2020There 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.
Dina StanderFeb 27, 20207 minCompanioning 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
Dina StanderFeb 20, 20206 minA Treatise on EOLDs and Sliding Fee Scales In a society that commodifies everything, alternative paradigms will sometimes be considered radical. Welcome to my world, Doula friends!
Dina StanderMar 24, 20193 minThe Opportune Moment and the Phone of the Wind:There is a deep need many people have to keep the ordinary conversation of life going, even though the person they have this conversation wi