Loving your friends to death
Recently, I heard someone say you should fall in love with the world. I think we should fall in love with our friends.
Read moreCommunity Education
Stories, reflections and conversations about end-of-life care.
Insights, stories and discussions about end-of-life care, advocacy and the movement to bring death and dying back into community hands.
Volunteering / Giving Back
Where are you at in your life and career? Are you feeling bored or stale in your current role and sensing that you need a change?It is recognised that most people will have two career changes in their life time. That means we are likely to have three different careers in our life.
Read moreThe Role of The End of Life Doula in Australia
Challenges and opportunities in a modern landscape It’s time for a difficult conversation. We are good at that aren’t we? This was a challenging piece to write and I imagine it will be challenging to read. Challenge isn’t always bad, it is hard, but good things can come from hard conversations. After all, the role of the End Of Life (EOL) Doula is a challenging one and we tend to operate in the space of things that are layered and complex and hard. Talk to anyone who has done the work of an EOL doula authentically for any length of time, and they will tell you it is the hardest and best, most exhausting and rewarding work they have done. People come to the role of EOL doula
Read moreReimagining Death Care for our Ageing Population
What are the policy considerations for integrating medical and social care to transform the way we care for older Australians at the end of life?
Read moreYou are going to die
Did you know, you are going to die! Have you considered what it’s going to feel like. Look like. Sound like. If you have considered your own mortality, chances are its going to have been in a way that is ‘other’ to yourself. We are getting pretty good as a society , talking about death as an abstract thing that happens to someone else without ever really considering what that reality means for us. Death can be messy or clean. Loud or quiet. Death can be alone or in company. There can be tears of anguish or relief. There can be pain or peace. While we might know all this, we rarely put ourselves in the picture. If you talk to people diagnosed with a terminal illness, or
Read moreListen Up!
When was the last time you really listened…? That might seem like a silly question, it’s not often we think about the sense of hearing but if you8 are a person who can hear you use it every day… but are you listening? We hear a lot of stuff all the time. We have so much background noise in our lives for so much of the time that when we go places like the outback, we get astounded by the true silence. Some of that background noise is made up of hundreds of inane conversations we have every week, the majority of which we will never remember. They are the background noise of our social relationships.
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