Death Doula Support:

End of Life Companionship

When someone knows their time is short, something shifts. People stop performing and start saying the real thing. The question they've been sitting on for twenty years finally gets asked. I've watched it happen more than once, and honestly, it wrecks me a little every time, in the good way. That's what we spend our whole lives avoiding and secretly desiring. Imagine being able to ask your loved ones a question you've never asked them, or finally hearing them ask you the one they've always wanted to ask.

In my private practice, one of my favorite questions to ask is this. If you had a diagnosis of only one month left to live, what would you do before you die? Most people have never let themselves sit with that question, and something opens up when they finally do.

Death is one of the most beautiful rites of passage we get in this lifetime, and it's a shame our culture never teaches us how to hold it, how to honor it as something beautiful instead of something terrible to keep at arm's length. If the mushrooms have taught me anything, it's that compost is beautiful. It isn't the end. It's the very beginning of something new. Someone's death can teach you more than almost anything else in this life, and that's the work I do, helping you understand this whole process differently.

This work sits alongside my licensed psilocybin practice. Sometimes it's a structured session. Sometimes it's just me showing up and sitting there, holding a hand, singing something off key, being present while a hard conversation finally happens.

I'm not guessing at what this takes. I sat at my own mother's deathbed and learned firsthand what it means to run out of time for anything but the truth. If you or someone you love is standing near that threshold and wants a guide instead of a clinician, I'd be honored to walk with you.