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.
The Caring Death Doula
Walking the Grief Journey Together
This podcast aims to normalize grief and make it a comfortable part of our conversations. I want to create a safe space for everyone experiencing grief while removing shame, guilt, and judgment.
• There are no rules, timelines, or right/wrong ways to grieve
• Grief comes from all types of changes and losses, not just death
• Even positive life changes like children moving out can bring grief
• Anticipatory grief and grieving for someone you've never met are valid experiences
• Getting comfortable with grief helps us better support each other
• Acknowledging grief rather than avoiding it leads to healing
Please share this podcast with someone who needs to hear they're not alone in their grief. Contact me with your stories or questions—I'm here to help educate, strengthen, and support you through whatever grief you're experiencing.
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Hello and welcome back to the Caring Death Doula podcast. If this is your first time, I want to say welcome and I am very happy that you have joined us. If this is your first time, I do encourage you to go back and listen to the other episodes. But if you have joined us either today or a couple of episodes ago and you haven't had the chance to go back, I wanted to take this episode today to share with you my desire, my passion for this podcast. I really want us to get comfortable with grief. I want us to be so comfortable with death and grief that we talk about it, that it is just a natural part of our conversations, because we all have one life to live, we all have a life journey that's going to end in death, and along in this life journey are changes, and all these changes bring loss, death, grief. The good changes, the scary, the hard, the not so good All these changes create grief in our life, whether we acknowledge it, admit it, see it. It's there. And so my whole purpose for this podcast is to get us comfortable with grief and to understand that there is no rules, no timeline, no right way or wrong way to grieve. It is your journey. I want us to become so comfortable with grief no right way or wrong way to grieve. It is your journey. I want us to become so comfortable with grief and all the changes that are part of life that we can truly support each other, that we know how to be a presence in each other's life and that we know how to extend grace to ourselves, because often we're really good at being there for somebody else but we're really hard on ourself. So I want to do away, or limit the amount of time that we spend beating ourselves up when it comes to grief. I want to do away with the shame and the guilt. I want to do away with the shame and the guilt. I want us to understand grief and to be understanding to those going through grief, not judging them, not being critical, not having any rules, being able to accept somebody's different journey. Some are going to grieve for a short amount of time. Others are going to take a longer amount of time. It doesn't matter. There are no rules in grief. It's something you are going to hear me if you continue to listen to this podcast and I hope you do and I hope that you share it with somebody who you know could need it. But you are going to hear me say over and over again there's no rules in grief. There's no right way or wrong way, no timeline, there's no checkoff list, and I really want there to be no judgment, no criticism, no guilt, no shame.
Speaker 1:There's all kinds of changes in our lives, so there's all kinds of grief. There can be grief from a change or a loss of a relationship. There can be a loss of a loved one, and that's huge, isn't it? They leave such a gap. The love that we have for them leaves such a gap. But a loss of a pet can be so hard. The loss of a home to fire or a natural disaster, the loss of a job. The loss of a job, the loss of a dream, the changes when your 18-year-old moves out, going to college, getting married or just moving out to their own apartment. You know those are happy changes, good changes, but yet it changes the dynamics of your home. It changes the relationship a little bit. It can greatly change the role that you play in their life. So there's just changes all around us and I'm sure you can think of some that I'm not mentioning.
Speaker 1:Life is change and change can bring grief, and grief is hard and there's even grief that we don't even talk about. There's anticipatory grief. There's grief for someone you've never met. There's grief, there's just all kinds of grief, and I want you to know that I'm here for you in that If you're grieving right now, if you want to learn how to better support someone who's grieving, that's what this podcast is for. We're going to get so comfortable with grief that it's just going to be part of the conversations that we have, because it is part of our life. Grief is a part of our lives and it needs to be a comfortable part of our conversations. We shouldn't be afraid of it or afraid of showing it or talking about it. We don't need to stuff it down or run away from it. Let's acknowledge it, let's accept it in our lives, let's get comfortable with it and let's truly support each other.
Speaker 1:Grief is hard and there are so many that, like I said, we don't even acknowledge, we're not even aware of, and there's so much involved in grief that can lead to that shame, beating ourselves up, guilt, and I want to do away with that. I want us to become so comfortable with grief and to always remember no rules. There's no rules in grief. So, please, if you know anyone who's grieving and you think that my podcast can help them, can encourage them, can just make them not feel so much alone, I want this to be a safe place that you can come to and feel like you're understood, you're seen, that you're not out there alone, that there's others that have the same not the same grief, but the same type of grief and maybe are struggling with some of the same not the same grief, but the same type of grief and maybe are struggling with some of the same questions or the same guilt and shame that you are, and hopefully you won't feel so alone.
Speaker 1:I would love to hear from you. Feel free to contact me, share with me any of your stories, ask questions. If there's anything you would like me to explain or discuss, I'm very open to hearing from you. I just would love to hear from you. I just would love to hear from you and I would be very glad to answer any questions to help educate you, to strengthen you, to be a supporter of someone who is grieving, or if it's you specifically that's grieving. If I can help in any way, that's what I'm here for. So please don't hesitate to reach out to me, share with me, ask questions, give me some ideas of something you want to hear about, because I am here for you. This podcast is your safe place, a place for you to come and not feel alone, for all of us to get comfortable with grief. This is the Caring Death Doula, and I am here for you.