as published in the INELDA newsletter As soon as I entered the apartment, this private place, something broke. The towel rack fell. The shower curtain could not hold the waters that washed me down, and the floods began. The washing machine started seeping, the air conditioner started leaking, the remote control [...]
Read MoreIn my dream, I am arriving late at an end-of-life doula training. My colleague is overworked and exhausted, and she is falling asleep at the podium. I am there to step in to teach. I tap her on her shoulder and she does not wake up. Willy, who died in [...]
Read MoreToday is the first and the last day of my life. Every day is the first and the last day of my life. Each breath the first and the last, each encounter the first and the last. As a friend recently said, I am practically already dead, except I am [...]
Read MoreI have heard it said that what we are good at is not a strength if doing it does not strengthen us, if it drains or abhors us. At the same time, what gives us strength may come naturally—or rather, impulsively—to us, yet it is not necessarily what is easiest [...]
Read MoreWe have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And [...]
Read More"Where was my father when he was alive? He was in my consciousness. Where was my relationship with him when he was alive in the physical body? The love that I felt, the connection, the bond, were all in my consciousness. Where is he now? In my consciousness." — Deepak [...]
Read More"Has anyone else stumbled onto possible evidence that the universe possesses a finite metaphysical infrastructure occasionally detected by the subconscious?" —Caity Weaver, The New York Times More and more it seems the line between dreams and waking life is blurred. The surreal quality of our current, collective waking life experience makes [...]
Read MoreAs we more and more move our personal and professional lives online and into video conference rooms, we may question our capacity for intimacy, connection, and making meaning of our lives, our work, our interactions, our relationships, our individual and shared experiences through screen images and speaker sound. Those of us [...]
Read MoreEvery day I learn a little bit more about unconditional love. Some of us may learn it more easily with ourselves, and some of us may learn it more easily with our closest loved ones. Some of us may learn it most easily through witnessing it being modeled by others [...]
Read MoreDoula (/ˈduːlə/) means companion, supporter, advocate, assistant. A Death Doula is a companion, supporter, advocate, assistant to a dying person and her or his loved ones. Whether at a hospital or at home, why do people not consider a Death Doula's presence at the bedside of a dying person important [...]
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