Everything we've published on heal with death.
10 articles
We've forgotten how to sit with the dying. A death doula on what a vigil actually asks of you, and how to hold space for someone in their final days.
Why green burial is, for many families, the thing that finally feels honoring instead of processed — the old way of returning a body to the earth, explained by a death doula.
Long before hospitals, the village strega came to the deathbed with plants in her hands. A death doula on the herbal death care we forgot we had, and why it still works.
On Stregheria, the indigenous Italian folk-magic tradition, and what it teaches about ancestor veneration, home altars, and the sacred rites of dying and leaving.
On grief in summer: what the science actually says, and why loss feels louder when the world insists on being beautiful.
The diagnosis came in March. By May, your mother still looked like your mother, still made jokes at the dinner table, still asked about your kids. But something had already shifted in the room. You fe
Your chest is tight. You cannot take a full breath. You haven't slept through a night in three weeks, and when you do sleep, you wake at 3:47am with your jaw clenched like you have been fighting somet
A friend asked me what I do for a living last year, at a dinner party, in that tone people use when they already know you're about to make things weird. I told her I'm a death doula. She nodded polite
Grief therapist and death doula Edy Nathan explains why the five-stage model fails most grievers — and introduces her Eleven Phases of Grief framework from her book It's Grief.
Grief therapist Edy Nathan coined the term "sexual grief" to describe the lasting pain of sexually traumatic experiences. Here she explains what it is, how it operates, and how her Liberation Protocol helps survivors move toward freedom.
