The Caring Death Doula
In a world that rushes past death and ignores grief, The Caring Death Doula stops to listen with tenderness, truth, and time. Whether you are grieving right now or here to learn how to help those grieving, join your host, Frances, a certified grief educator on the journey of finding connection, conversations, and comfort. Let's make grief and death a natural part of our conversations.
Podcasting since 2025 • 44 episodes
The Caring Death Doula
Latest Episodes
Raw Numbing Grief
The phone rings, life splits, and the air goes thin. A moment you won’t forget. That’s the feeling we step into in this episode: raw, sudden grief after an unexpected death in the family, the kind that makes time wobble and or...
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Season 2
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Episode 44
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12:21
Are We Ever Prepared for Grief
A massive winter storm sets the stage for a conversation we’ve needed to have: you can plan, but you can’t schedule your heart. In this episode, I look at how grief behaves more like weather than a checklist—surprising, shifting, sometimes quie...
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Season 2
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Episode 43
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10:25
Gentle Joy in Grief
Grief can feel endless until, suddenly, it doesn’t—for a moment.In this episode I share a tender look at how relief sometimes arrives unannounced: a letter from a transplant recipient whose life was saved, a beloved house passing to some...
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Season 2
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Episode 42
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9:08
Grief can’t be scheduled or planned
In this episode I ask whether grief feels heavier during the week or on the weekend, then unpack why sorrow refuses schedules. A planned Monday–Thursday structure gives way to presence, flexibility, and care after life delivers unexpected...
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Season 2
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Episode 41
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9:25
You Don’t Need A Casserole To Show Up for Grief
In this episode, I share the news of a dear friend losing her son arriving like a punch to the chest, and how it raised a question many of us carry: how do you show up when the worst happens and you’re not even sure you’re “close enough” anymor...
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Season 2
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Episode 40
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7:06