End of Life Doulas of Eastern Ontario

04/05/2026

"Who's calling, please?"

12/12/2025

People of all ages offer words of wisdom to their younger counterparts in this WireTap farewell video, from CBC Radio One.Subscribe: http://bit.ly/CBCSubscri...

07/04/2025

39.1K likes, 1820 comments. "When grief arrives! Pull a chair for her, let her seat at the table, let her speak. Ler her heal. I wrote this poem as a reaction to Thandiwe and Grace Storm’s choreo poem. It opened my heart saying here, this is where we still hurt.". Related search: poetry.

06/28/2025

I was recently asked to provide a coffin for the very special B, and her family shared with me a playlist for me to listen to while I made B's coffin. It was an evocative playlist her and her family had created and accompanied them in their last months together.

I shared photos of B's coffin making process as they couldn't visit in person, the craft insights helped them to feel prepared to see the coffin with B inside.

I've not seen this butterfly cluster design before, so ephemeral.

Her daughter had a gorgeous idea of asking everyone to bring a potted plant, and everyone took away someone else's. A lasting, living object in a collective act to remember B and their love for her.

Asking if the family had a song they'd like me to play while I wove/ lined their coffin is something I used to do when I started out, but discarded it as I was playing with what appeared 'professional', and decided that didn't fit the image. However, 6 years later, my definition of professional encompasses this human request. How would you define 'professional' in the/your modern funeral sector?

britishfuneralflowers

03/10/2025

Grief doesn’t apply only when someone dies. It’s about releasing someone or something we loved… a friend, a pet, a job… It’s okay to feel that way. It’s okay to let them go and still hold on to the happy bits of memory. Just remember that everyone expresses grief in their own way and for their own reasons. It’s never our place to judge that just because we don’t feel or react the same way.

03/01/2025

https://macleans.ca/longforms/canada-maid-mental-illness/

The ethics are muddy, the country is divided and the world is watching Canada’s next move. Inside the crusade for psychiatric MAID.

02/09/2025

43.1K likes, 703 comments. “It was my honor to tell Haley’s story on”

01/24/2025

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01/18/2025

In this video I share my top three tips for supporting kids who are attending a funeral, memorial or other ceremony following a death. Video Transcript: http...