Stack of books, notes, and coil journals, along with laptop.

Last minute prep for the start of the AP Doula.
I am so proud of this offering.

#EOLDoula #DeathDoula #APDoula #EndOfLife #Deathcare #CommunityDeathcare #mindfulness #Presence

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#homefunerals #communitydeathcare #deathcare #spirituality

-Madwoman, Banshee, Shaman: Gender, Changing Performance Contexts and the Irish Wake Ritual by Narelle McCoy

#Keening #IrishTraditions #CommunityDeathcare #oldWays #Ancestral ##EOLDoula #EndOfLifeDoula #APDoula #DeathDoula #Grief #caoineadh

#CommunityDeathcare knows: Life is precious.

SCRIPTed Endings: An End-of-Life Planning Collaborative Come join us for SCRIPTed Endings, where we'll collaborate on end-of-life planning in a creative, supportive and informative environment!

Calling all #Cleveland #EOL professionals! We're building something creative, collaborative, and community-centered. If you support others through death, dying, grief, or planning, this is your invite to connect.
#DeathPositive #EndOfLifeCare #ClevelandEvents #CommunityDeathCare

We’ve been taught to fear death.
But our dead are not dangerous.
They are sacred. They are ours.

🌿 Start learning: www.homefuneralalliance.org/home-funeral-guidebook.h...

#ReclaimDeath #CommunityDeathCare #HomeFunerals

Home funerals offer both.

Tender touch. Unrushed goodbye.

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#SlowGrief #HomeFuneralRights #CommunityDeathCare

Turntable in the shape of a casket. Text: I want to be buried with all my records. It will be my vinyl resting place.

Community Deathcare: We're hilarious.

#DarkHumor #CommunityDeathcare #FunInFuneral #DeathDoula #EOLDoula #APDoula #JustKidding

#CommunityDeathcare #Compassion #EOLDoula #EndOfLife #Community #Connection #BeKind #APDoula #HelpingHands #SelfAware #DeathDoula #DeathMatters

Hey death doulas! Sharpen your skills!

#CommunityDeathcare #EOLDoula #DeathDoula #EndOfLife #Empathy #SelfAware #APDoula

Comment from Hank Green about the value of public health (prevention, not cure!)

Good life, peaceful death.

It's kinda our jam.

Not everyone will receive both- or either- many live with disease, chronic pain, deprivation. And certainly many deaths are painful, protracted, lonely.

But #CommunityDeathcare continues to work towards this goal: good life, peaceful death.

Eldercare, including those with dementia, is a significant part of being and end-of-life doula.

#CommunityDeathcare #DeathDoula #Dementia #Eldercare #APDoula #Caregiving

This is #CommunityDeathcare.
Necropolitics is a social justice issue.

Good death for ALL.

Solastalgia, the emotional distress or anxiety caused by witnessing the degradation of the environment, is a form of grief.

And it's under the umbrella of #CommunityDeathcare.

We don't discriminate against any form of sorrow.

#CommunityDeathcare advocates for being present to our own mortality. A contemplative practice, #mementomori, can support us in that goal.

We'd also like to remind you there are better and worse ways to go.

We continue to oppose suffering in silence.

#CommunityDeathcare is inherently political.

Hey #CommunityDeathcare, odds are many of you have an altar practice. Let's see 'em.

Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It? A Black activist reflects on intergenerational trauma, community, and coming to terms with death in movement building.

#CommunityDeathcare and #SocialJustice go hand in hand, and both make space for #grief.

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Parenting is good practice for #CommunityDeathcare; it can be a lot like working with the dying and dead.

We can't guard against EVERY possibility. So we aim to provision rather than protect.

#DeathComes #MementoMori #Prepare #PrePlan #ACP #AdvanceCarePlanning #SelfCare

Caesar being attacked by Senators, arm raised as he recoils. Excerpt of painting by Carl Theodor Von Piloty.

Like Caesar, many of us would like to die surrounded by friends.

The Ides of March are a reminder to share your end-of-life plan. Let your wishes be known!

#Preplan #EndOfLife #CommunityDeathcare #DarkHumor

#CommunityDeathcare?

Healthcare or deathcare: Antiracist, decolonial practices are the aim.

We are bound together in our liberation. This is the community in #CommunityDeathcare.

Regardless of anyone's religious views, we appreciate this phrase, the "miracle of tenderness."
This is #CommunityDeathcare, the practice of intimacy.

What a privilege.

quote on grief, "There is not a reason for everything. Not every loss can be transformed into something useful. Things happen that do not have a silver lining. We have to start telling the truth about this kind of pain. About grief, about love, about loss."

We help people work with their grief, uncovering its potential transformation.

But sometimes there is no gift to be found in the loss. Some losses leave us so thoroughly shattered the pieces can never be put back together.
#Grief #GriefJourney #CommunityDeathcare #SelfCompassion

The last 4 days have been A Lot of things moving Very Quickly. But there are exciting things in motion my flock! I can't wait to share them with you. #deathcare #deathdoula #communitydeathcare

#GriefJourney #MindfulnessPractice #SelfCompassion #CumulativeGrief #SelfAware #Mindfulness #Grief #CommunityDeathcare #Doula #CommunityCare

#GriefJourney #SelfCompassion #StressVersusGrief #GoSlow #CommunityDeathcare #Mindfulness #MindfulnessPractice #BePresent

Comment from the Los Angeles Times quoting singer Sinead O'Connor.

The late singer Sinead O'Connor described artists as an "emergency fire service when it comes to spiritual conflict...a little light that tells us there is a spirit world."

We like to think #CommunityDeathcare is similar; the emergency service called upon when we are in that liminal space...

A note on a torn piece of paper that says: I am very sorry. My mother just passed away and my emotions are not right. Please forgive me.

Gentle compassion, my friends. We might find in challenging times that our emotions are not quite right.

As for forgiveness, let's be generous in both the asking and the giving.

#SelfAware #SelfCompassion #Dysregulation #CommunityDeathcare #GoSlow

Comment describing social justice activism as a choir singing together.

Whether #CommunityDeathcare, #SocialJustice, or a choir, many hands and many voices joining together is a critical detail.

Coming together as a collective allows for connection and meaning-making that we will never discover in isolation. Our messy human differences is our super power.