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
Holding Space: Ending A Season, Carrying Love Forward
We close a season and a year by naming a simple truth: grief has no rules, and love doesn’t end. We offer permission to feel, encouragement to say their names, and practical ways to show up for one another.
• ending the season with gratitude and care
• no right or wrong way to grieve
• rejecting social timelines and pressure
• showing up with meals, calls, presence
• listening more than fixing
• saying their names to honor love
• carrying memories into a new year
• leaving shame and guilt behind
• choosing personal pace
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Thank you for joining me. This is the Caring Death Doula. We have come to the end of the year. We have come to the end of season one. And I want to thank you for joining me today and in the past episodes. Thank you for being with me as we discuss grief and how our bodies handle it, how society handles it. Thank you for listening. Thank you for being here. Thank you for using this space as a safe place. Thank you for knowing that I see you and I'm holding space for you. Now, as we close out this season and look forward to the next season, as we close out this year, looking forward to the next year. And I do hope you're looking forward to it. There's so much new coming into our lives. And I hope we can share it together. And may we remember that there are no rules in grief. There's no right way. There's no wrong way. Nobody can tell you how to grieve. Or how long. Or that crying is too much. That grieving still is too much. That it's time to move on, or it's time to get over it, or it's time to. There's so many things that people try to tell us. Well, let's stand firm and be strong and not let them. Let's remember that we do grief our way. Let's grieve out loud. Let's make society change. We need to be there for each other. We need to be the presence that we each need when grief hits hard, when grief is fresh. And when grief is old and it comes out of the blue and hits you. And you thought you were over it. You thought you had healed. You thought you were good. And then wham, it hits you. We need to be there for each other. And however that looks, and however each of us needs, let's be there for each other. Sometimes it's bringing in a cup of coffee or a meal or picking you up and making you come out and do something. And other times it's a phone call, a hug, or just someone who will listen. Someone perhaps that will even just sit next to you in silence. Just a presence. Just to let you know that you are seen. Just know that I'm here for you. This podcast is a place for those who grieve can come. And if we were doing this in person, I would listen. Hopefully, I would encourage and support you. But mainly, I would listen. Because we need to talk about our grief. We need to talk about our loved one. We need to say their name. When a person dies, when a dream dies, when a pet dies, it's hard. And when it comes to a person, they don't just disappear. Our love doesn't just disappear. We need to say their name. We need to acknowledge their influence, their part, the part they played in our life. It doesn't just end, it doesn't just disappear. It doesn't just not matter. So I'm asking you to think about that as we end this year, as we end this season, and we're moving into the new year. Continue to take the love that you have for your loved one that died. There's no shame and there's no guilt. Let's leave that all behind. Don't ever let anybody tell you how to grieve, how to carry your love for your loved one. You do it your way. You do it for as long or as short. You do it when it hits hard and when it whispers softly. You do grief your way. And I, Francis, the caring death doula, am here for you.