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
Gentle Joy in Grief
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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 someone who truly loves it, a monarch butterfly gliding through the yard and sparking a memory that warms instead of stings. These aren’t solutions; they’re gentle shifts that help you breathe and remind you that love keeps moving in unexpected ways.
Together, we talk about the small signals that appear along a grief journey—a song on the radio, a favorite movie of your loved one, a simple smile that arrives before the ache.
We have an honest conversation about guilt, timelines, and the myth that healing must look a certain way. You’ll hear clear, compassionate guidance on staying open to moments of ease without chasing them, letting memory evolve from sharp to soft at its own pace. Remember this is your personal path of carrying grief and love. There are no rules.
The goal is simple: help you feel seen, heard, and less alone while offering practical ways to welcome comfort when it’s ready to meet you. If you’ve been waiting for permission to smile again—or to not smile yet—you’ll find it here, along with gentle reminders that hope can coexist with sorrow.
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Frances, The Caring Death Doula
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Hello and welcome back to the Caring Death Dealer podcast. Today we are going to talk about things that we can do or things that happen that can make us feel better in our grief. Things that can help us just to feel better, just to have maybe a moment of joy, a moment of thinking, oh, my loved one would enjoy this. My loved one would be through so thrilled with this. I was talking with Chris, and she was sharing with me a couple things that have really helped her lately to just feel a little bit better, to just get a little bit of joy, perhaps you could say, back into her life as she's grieving that her sister has died. Her sister was an owner, organ donor. And Chris actually received a letter from the woman that received her sister's liver, and it really touched her, it really blessed her. And she wrote the woman back and just had a deep sense of happiness and just that her sister was continuing on that thing. It just it was a beautiful moment that Chris shared with me, and I felt so honored in hearing this story that this just eased her, eased her grief or uplifted her grief for just a little bit so that she could just approach life in a different angle or aspect. And the second thing that and the second thing that Chris shared with me was when she put her sister's house up for sale. This was a house that her sister just loved, absolutely just loved it. And when she put it up for sale, and it sold, and she went to the closing. Because her thought was my sister would absolutely love the fact that the one who bought her house that she loved, that he loved it, he was excited to buy it, he was excited to move in and make it his own. And these just eased some of Chris's grief. Now, as we have talked in past episodes, there are no rules in grief. There is no right way or wrong way. And grief is a personal journey, and it can take as long or as little as you need. But we need to remember that at times it is such a blessing when there's something uplifting, something happy, something that just makes us smile, or think of our loved one with a smile, or think of what our loved one would be smiling at this. And so I just really want to encourage you to look for ways, or maybe not even look for ways to create these situations, but just know that these situations will come. Let me know if there is something you want to share with me, if there is something you want me to talk about, because I'm very open to being here for you. I want to listen. I want you to feel seen and heard. I want you to know you're not on this journey alone. There are things that are going to come into your life. It could be something as simple and magical as maybe a monarch butterfly comes into your backyard. And you will just all of a sudden just smile because you'll remember how your sister loved monarchs. Or it could be anything like that, any small moment. It can be a big event like a house selling or an organ donation, but it can also be the little things. At some point in your journey, you're going to smile again. You're going to laugh again. You're going to have moments of remembering your loved one where it won't where the pain won't be necessarily the first thing that you think about. There'll be a little spark, a little a little sprinkle of a happy thought in regards to your loved one. And so I just want to encourage you to hang in there. Take care of yourself. Be ready and open for these moments when you are ready for it. Don't rush it, don't push it, don't shame or guilt yourself into thinking, well, I haven't felt that yet. If you haven't, that's fine. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming when you can listen to your loved one's favorite song or watch their favorite movie or TV show, and it won't hurt as much. There'll be these beautiful moments that you can treasure that are going to be precious and that are going to make things just a little bit easier or softer. This is the Caring Death Doula, and I am here for you.