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
Grief Writing: Simple Rituals To Carry Love Forward
The calendar says it’s time to celebrate, but your heart and body might be telling a different story. We open up about how grief doesn’t just live in feelings—it settles into muscles, breath, and the nervous system, and it can get louder around holidays and big traditions. Rather than forcing yourself to “move on,” we explore a kinder approach: learning to carry love forward while caring for your body’s limits.
I share simple, repeatable practices that calm the nervous system when the season feels overwhelming: grounding breath before gatherings, short walks to release tension, and small rituals that create a sense of safety. From there, we lean into the power of words. You’ll hear practical ways to use journaling to give shape to heavy emotions and make sense of mixed feelings.
We also walk through letter-writing as a healing ritual. Write to your God, to the person you miss, or to yourself, and say the things that need saying: the joy, the absence, the way traditions ache and still matter. Set the letter aside for days or months, then return to witness how you’ve changed.
If the season feels too bright for your eyes right now, you’re not alone. Press play for gentle guidance, grounded practices, and words that make room for both pain and celebration. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who is grieving, and leave a review to help others find support.
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Hello and welcome back. Thank you for joining me. I am deeply honored that you have taken the time to be here and to listen. Now, if you've been listening to some of the previous episodes, you know that we were discussing how grief is not just our emotions, it's not just our feelings. It's it can get deeper than that. It can be held in our body. And so we went through different ways to help our body to heal, help our nervous system to reset. And we talked about just some things that we can do. And so I encourage you to go back and listen to those episodes if you haven't, because it's so important to understand that some of the symptoms that you're having in your body are from grief and that there's nothing wrong with you. And it's things that you can try to practice to help you feel better. And I really do hope that they do help you. So we've got here in the United States, we've got the holidays coming up, we've got Thanksgiving and different religious holidays, and then the new year. And no matter what religion or even what culture, even what country you're living in, as you're listening to this today, we all have times of the year where there's celebrations, where there's holidays, where there's vacations. And it's really hard to get through those sometimes when you're grieving, when you are carrying that grief with you. Here, we're going to talk about things that we can do to help us carry on, carry our love, carry the treasured memories, our love for whatever you're grieving, the love that you have, it doesn't die, it doesn't get buried, it isn't lost. You're still carrying the love, and you're learning how, in a sense, you're learning how to walk again, how to walk, carrying the love for that person, the memories of the life, the love that you had for your pet, the just the what your life was, right? Before grief entered in, before death and loss and grief entered in. And so, one of the things I want to encourage you today, we've talked about it when we've been talking about how important it is to care for ourselves, do something for yourself every day. We've talked about journaling, and so I want to talk a little bit more about that, about just writing in a journal, in a notebook, on your phone, in your notes, perhaps getting a guided notebook, a guided journal, guided devotion that can move you through things, help you in the sense, process in your mind what you're feeling, what that means, and how to carry how to carry that on, how to move forward. And I want to encourage you that you can also write a letter to your God. You can write a letter to your loved one. You could even write a letter to yourself, sharing what you're feeling, sharing your joys and your sorrows, sharing your life, sharing the celebration, sharing the silence, just honoring your love, honoring your loved one, honoring your life and the experience, the change that has come about. And you can leave this letter, no matter who it's to, you can leave it for a few days, maybe some weeks, maybe even a number of months. And then you can come back to it and you can see. This is the caring death, doula, and I am here for you.