Tag: hospice

• So, You Want To Be An End of Life Doula…

  

  Maybe you’ve taken care of your parents as they took their last breaths. Maybe you’ve taken care of your own spouse or another relative as they died. There is a sense of purpose that fills you. A higher sense of purpose than you’ve ever experienced before. As time passes, though, it leaves you wanting more.…

  Jade

  November 7, 2021

  personal development

  chaplaincy, death doula, end of life care, end of life doula, hospice, social work, volunteers

• We're Failing Families

  Are We Failing Families At The End Of Life? Of course we are failing families at the end of life!! Death and dying are treated as medical events rather than holistic ones! Conversations around the emotional and spiritual aspects of dying and death are completely shut down, circumvented or worse totally dismissed! In the past…

  Jade

  March 6, 2020

  death and dying, end of life doula, end of life doula, personal development

  alternative solutions, do death better, end of life planning, failing end of life, hospice, palliative

• Carol

  

  Holistic Support In Uncertain Times Carol was the neighborhood mom of my adolescence. Carol’s daughter, Marsha, and my younger sister were the best of friends. While in our youth we were not allies, as we grew into adulthood we grew closer. I had peripherally understood that Carol had battled a few different types of cancer…

  Jade

  February 24, 2020

  death and dying, end of life doula, end of life doula, grief

  aging, crisis, ding, dying, end of life, end of life doula, holistic support, hospice, palliative care, support, trauma