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This podcast is grounded in Palliative Care concepts. We explore topics and tools to create an amazing day amidst dying. My own insights and others' that have something to say about dying well in this modern age, healing symptoms and supporting the people who are supporting our dying loved ones. Ma...
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What is the Difference Between Hospice & Death Doula Services?
This is one of the biggest questions I get, "how are death doulas and hospice different?" Or, "why would someone need an end of life doula when there...
How Death Doulas Support During Covid
End of Life Doulas are in a new time, incorporating all that is occurring due to the pandemic. New discussions evolve daily, weekly, and will continu...
WHAT DEATH DOULAS SHOULD KNOW, 5 PRO TIPS
5 Important things a Death Doula must know to help their professional practice are: 1) Get the word out about your service before every little thing...
3 Keys to Starting Your End of Life Doula Practice
As you study the 3 keys to starting your end of life doula practice, you may feel awkward right now, but over time, as you learn more about these prin...
Death Doula Discussion on Vigil (pro tips)
Vigil days (pre-death vigil) is what most people think of when they think of serving the dying and their families. Here are some tips that may be help...
Death Doulas Use Same Skills for COVID-19
What you have learned as a death doula is the same set of skills and awarenesses that you need now, during COVID-19. Its not that we need new skills,...
Suffering with Serious Illness? What to do. Listen in Death Doulas and Healthcare Advocates
You can heal from your illness and NOT have to suffer. That is the message in this video. Unconventional ways to use the medicine most think only hosp...
New Death Doulas, you can help now during the pandemic, you dont have to wait.
As a society we have been turned upside by the covid-19 pandemic. What death doulas in training can do now to support.
Real EOL Doula Stories: Meet Kimberly King Wise
Kimberly King Wise is a Certified End of Life Doula, Home Funeral Guide, Certified Business Manager and Virtual Assistant with 21 years of experience...
Understanding World Religions for Birth and Death Doulas: Amy Wright Glenn
The doula's role can be powerfully strengthened and supported with a clear understanding of the basic tenets of five of our world's religions: Hinduis...
EOL Doulas in Real Life: Elizabeth
Meet Elizabeth, a massage therapist and end-of-life doula in private practice. She shares her story with us here of how she was a hospice volunteer an...
Rev Bodhi Be On "In Case You Might Die One Day"
Reverend Bodhi Be discusses with me about living as a student of suffering, dying and grieving. "We don't value suffering in this culture, that is why...
Self Care for Professional Caregivers
We had a fantastic time in this interview! But of course, I'm not talking with just anyone who is carefully living in between the lines--I'm speaking...
Hospital Companion
Our role as end of life doulas is not only for the imminent days of dying. Some people want to focus there and there are many other places where we ca...
Moment of Death Research
Dr. Micahel Barbato stays busy enlightening us in end of life matters for decades. Recently he has completed a study with other physicians regarding w...
Are You the 'Go-to' Person?
The "Go to" person is that special person within a circle that people know they can turn to during serious situations.
Whether it has t...
"The Calling," You Have It or You Don't
Anyone can receive end of life training to know more about the time period, what to do, how to be helpful and to feel more comfortable assisting other...
Referring to Hospice
Yes! Refer to hospice as a death doula. You may be serving people who are not on hospice yet and who may not realize all they are missing by NOT getti...
"Nurse With the Purple Hair"--A New Film by Sean Cunningham
This interview with Sean Cunningham is so wonderful as you can hear the awe in his voice for the work of hospice. He shares how he came across the 'nu...
Birth, Breath and Death with Amy Wright Glenn
Amy Wright Glenn earned her MA in Religion and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Amy is a Kripalu Yoga teacher, Birthing Mama® Pre...
Experience Does Matter for Death Doulas
As an end of life practitioner, having experience underneath you really does matter. We all must start somewhere yes. Get a group of hospice professio...
Death Doulas and Palliative Care
Listen in as I discuss why it is so important to understand palliative care when you are an end of life doula. You will understand so much more about...
The Sacred Life Journey of Sharon Lund
Last night sitting outside beside the powerful Maui ocean, Sharon and I talked about her own life and death journey.
She has been servi...
Community Healing with Dying Well Collective
The Dying Well Collective in Canada is doing beautiful work for the community. This interview with Glenda Myles, Founder of the Collective illustrates...
Guest House for the Terminally Ill
The Social Model Hospice House is a beautiful model for care for those at the end of life. Today listen in as I interview Kevin Miller, Executive Dire...
The Be-Attitudes of Chaplaincy
The beautiful ministry of the chaplain during the end of life time period is one of the best offerings of hospice and hospitals. A great chaplain can...
When Your Calling is Your Business
Join Janis Underwood and I in tackling a touchy subject...that of a person who wants to do their calling every day, not just after "work." The person...
Self Care for EOL Workers
Support for self-care among workers who serve the dying is not as popular as you may think. It seems obvious that for hospice workers, hospital worker...
Doing Death Differently with Patty Burgess
For the majority of people, the space between birth and death hold their attention, and is the focus of their journey. But for Patty Burgess, the endi...
Some Perspective on Death Doula Training
This week's podcast gives some background on why there is death doula training. There is a huge movement of "light bearers," people who are called to...
Last Comforts: Notes From the Forefront of Late Life Care
Ellen Rand, author of the book, "Last Comforts: Notes From the Forefront of Late Life Care,"has been a journalist for more than 40 years, including fi...
Hope for a Cool Pillow
Most people love hospice and the mission of hospice. And of course, there is always room for improvement.
"In Dr. Margaret Overton's new memoir,...
The Shadow Side of Compassion
This week's show I am discussing the shadow side of this wonderful ability of ours as humans to feel and live in compassion. We all may find ourselves...
End of Life Doula Bag (Death Doula Bag)
One of the wonderful topics I share with other doulas is what is in our EOL Doula bag? What do we take with us when we go to families? Also in this di...
Talking With a Hospice Chaplain
Blane Brazier has worked full time in hospice since 2008. He has a unique ministry of using his guitar or sometimes the ukulele to engage the spiritua...
A Story of Forgiveness
Today I am speaking with Kelly Roman about her story of living in forgiveness for her father who died this year; and, how she is getting through the h...
Martha Ward Shares a Beautiful Family Holiday Story
Today's podcast is a discussion I had with Martha Koock Ward of Austin. She is a delightful woman, 5th generation Austinite, and I loved what her fami...
Using Death Doulas in Healthcare
Present day healthcare services are squeezed for time, doulas and practitioners need experiences and the person who is ill and dying and their family...
December 8, 2015
I was sick this week so I had to cancel my interviews. We will be back on it for the December 15, 2015
peace, Deanna
Life & Grief Through the Holidays: 2015. Kickoff.
We all go through loss. It can be devastating regardless of what time of year it is. Many people describe an extra heaviness during the holiday season...