Welcoming Dr Qwynn Galloway-Salazar!
Founder and CEO of In Their Honor, Dr. Galloway-Salazar leads a consulting organization that
integrates storytelling, applied theatre, and community engagement to transform how societies
care for Veterans and their families through aging, loss, bereavement, and survivorship. Her
work bridges public health, the arts, and compassionate community design to advance culturally
responsive and trauma-informed care models.
Spotlight on Catherine, Your Death Project Manager
Even for doulas, advance care plans aren’t everyone’s strong suit. But this stuff is too important not to know! Fortunately IDLM has regular advance care planning classes taught by the fabulous Miss Pam Carter, and on top of that we are proud to be partnered with the Death Project Manager, an expert in helping you get organized in preparation for end of life.
New IDLM Partner: Lifebooks
There is a saying in some parts of the world that a person doesn’t truly die until the last time their name is spoken. This beautiful idea is an illustration of how much we cherish the memory of people who have gone on before us. One of the ways a doula can serve their clients […]
Summer Summit Spotlight – Emma Acker
Everybody dies. We all know this; as death care professionals we face this reality every single day. One of the challenges of death care work is the fact that even though everyone dies, not everyone has the resources to pay for good care at the end of their life, and unfortunately this happens to be […]
Summer Summit Spotlight – Your Morbid Friends
One of the reasons talking to people about death can be so challenging is that it often means talking to them about what is most important to them in life. It can sometimes require a vulnerability that is difficult for people, as they worry about whether they will be valued for what makes them who […]
Summer Summit – Through the Eyes of a Death Doula
Everyone here at IDLM has had the experience of telling someone they are a death doula and being met with the question, “What’s that?” We perform a necessary function, serving people in ways that have been essential for thousands of years—but at the same time, the changes in deathways across the twentieth century and the […]
IDLM Graduate Spotlight: Monica Kumar
This week our blog is honored to shine the spotlight on recent IDLM graduate, Monica Kumar!Having lived in the US and Canada but now residing and working in Tulum, Mexico, Monica putsthe “international” into International Doula Life Movement!With a background in nursing and a strong focus on grief, trauma, and bereavement work,Monica is passionate about […]
Spotlight – Barbara MacNair
For this week’s Student/Grad Spotlight, we are hearing from Barbara MacNair, located in Middletown, New Jersey. Barbara’s story is wonderful because her journey to end of life work has been unique but also contains many elements that nearly all of our IDLM community will relate to. We are so grateful to Barbara for sharing with […]
New In Person Training with Alison Nail Malone
It’s a new year and here at the International Doula Life Movement we are hitting the ground running! We have so many big plans and new opportunities lined up, both for IDLM as a community and for individual students and grads looking for something new. One of the things we are most excited about is […]
IDLM Partner Spotlight: Doulado
We all know how much hard work goes into being a doula. Lots of multi-tasking, quick thinking, problem solving, patience, and even physical labor sometimes! To be a doula, you have to be somebody who isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty. But for a lot of us, all that hard work and those difficult […]
