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CHECK OUT: How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Has Died
Dear Friends, I have come across this book on grieving that contains several of the challenges that cause grievers heartache. The book ...
Jennifer Plante
3 days ago2 min read


CHECK OUT: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Dear Friends, I would like to introduce you to a not-so-ordinary book about death called Will my Cat Eat my Eyeballs? The book is a collection of 35 questions dealing with corpses and their possible, likely or unlikely fate. The author, Caitlin Doughty, is a mortician, funeral owner, podcaster and videographer who puts death in the main focus of all she does. Her research and presentation of facts is historically fact checked, medically accurate and presented blunt, honest, f
Anne Stewart
Nov 232 min read


CHECK OUT: Goodbye - A First Conversation about Grief
Dear Friends, Young children have important questions about death and need supportive adults. It’s never too early to begin the...
Sandra Spicer
Nov 42 min read


CHECK OUT: The Book of Two Ways
Dear Friends, Do you: love a good romance story? want to learn some super interesting facts about Egypt and tombs? like quantum physics...
Tracie Sievers
Oct 213 min read


CHECK OUT: The Untethered Soul
Dear Friends, If I had come across the book The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer in my teenage years my life would have been a lot...
Sarah O'Leary
Sep 164 min read


CHECK OUT: Companioning the Dying
Dear Friends, I am deeply passionate about my personal journey to becoming a death doula. Before I began the Home Hospice Association...
Juli-Anne Mundle
Aug 193 min read


CHECK OUT: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Dear Friends, I have a book I would like to recommend. It is one that I read a lifetime ago. It is called The Five People You Meet In...
Jody Thomson
Jul 293 min read


CHECK OUT: The Collected Regrets of Clover
Dear Friends, I am writing with a wonderful book recommendation. I recently read the book, The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki...
Krista Smith
Jul 83 min read


CHECK OUT: Empty Arms
Dear Friends, I am writing to recommend a book that I think you would find helpful. It's called Empty Arms: Coping with Miscarriage,...

Carole Brulé
Jun 103 min read


CHECK OUT: How to Say Goodbye
Dear Friends, How to Say Goodbye : The Wisdom of Hospice Caregivers by Wendy MacNaughton is a simple, beautiful, comforting, and honest...
Chrystene Ells
May 272 min read


CHECK OUT: When Breath Becomes Air
Dear Friends, I recently finished a book that I think you would find deeply moving and thought-provoking, and I couldn’t wait to share it...
Julie Geehan
May 272 min read


CHECK OUT: The Last Lecture
Dear Friends, I hope this post finds you well and happy. I recently readig a book called The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. I have a lot...
Tammie Myers
May 63 min read


CHECK OUT: The In-Between
Dear Friends, I just finished reading the most wonderful non-fiction book called The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s...
Sandy Helfrich
Apr 83 min read


CHECK OUT: What Remains
Dear Friends, I came across this book called What Remains: Life, Death, Ritual and the Human Art of Undertaking by Rupert Callender. I...
Deirdre Casey
Mar 42 min read


CHECK OUT: Midwife for the Souls
Dear Friends, I have just finished reading Midwife for the Souls: Spiritual Care for the Dying by Kathy Kalina, I and feel that this may...
Jennifer McCrae
Feb 42 min read


CHECK OUT: I Can’t Stop Crying
Dear Friends, I recently read a wonderful book that I would like to share with you called I Can’t Stop Crying by John Martin. What...

Gabrielle Lahaie
Jan 72 min read


CHECK OUT: Finding Peace at the End of Life
Dear Friends, I recently read a book that I think would greatly benefit you in your work as a death doula or end of care provider. The...

Andreea Austen
Dec 17, 20242 min read


CHECK OUT: You Won’t Always Be This Sad
Dear Friends, I have just finished reading a book of poetry by Nova Scotian author Sheree Fitch entitled You Won’t Always Be This Sad: A...
Kym Nacita
Dec 10, 20243 min read


CHECK OUT: A Grief Observed
Dear Friends, I am writing to let you know about an amazing book I just read about grieving. I know we have talked about this subject a...
Mike Aubé
Dec 4, 20242 min read


CHECK OUT: When Children Grieve
Dear Friends, At a local death cafe, one of the humans in attendance shared with me a book that I wanted to recommend to you. It’s called...

Jen Thompson
Nov 12, 20242 min read
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