Resources
Apps
The Headspace app is an extremely popular meditation app and for good reason. It’s great for beginners and it’s the one I used when I first started a meditation practice. My kids love the relaxing sleepcasts, and I love the guided meditations and courses and you will too - especially if you, like me, are comforted by the sound of a British man telling you to breathe (my husband was British - I can’t help it!).
Insight Timer is another great meditation app. It doesn’t feature anyone in particular, but collects guided meditations and other resources from a variety of content producers.
Websites
https://doulagivers.com/find-a-end-of-life-doula/
https://www.consciousdyinginstitute.com/doula-directory
https://coeolcollaborative.org/eol-doula-directory/
Books
These are the books that, in no particular order, have been especially influential to how I approach my work. They range in subject matter - from death and grief to presence and spiritual perspectives - but every one of them I would describe as unsettling and beautiful. These books will shake up your snowglobe! But, when the snowflakes land, you will be able to see the world, life, and death more clearly.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by Stephen and Ondrea Levine
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller
Finding Meaning: the Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler
Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
The Power of Now by Eckhardt Tolle
Untethered Soul by Michael Singer