I have been surrounded by death since I was a little girl, it never really scared me, I just viewed it as a part of life - we are born, we live and we die. 

Hi Im Michell and I'm a death doula, most people about now say "a what"!!!! What's that?

It's not all I do but right now it seems to be in focus and needed

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Towards the end of 2008 a good friend Geraldine, asked me to be part of a team of 3 people who helped care for her in the last months of her life, I didn't realise it at the time but this was my first role as a death doula.

Around the same time, my sister was fighting her own battle with cancer and as one experience ended another began. I went straight on to help care for her until she passed.

 

My role as a carer continued on for the next 10 years as I cared first for my Dad and then my Mum as they completed the last years of their lives.

 

Over the last few years, I have been called to service many times most recently when a young man whom I have known since he was a teenager died from brain cancer.  

During the years I have tussled with the idea of becoming a death doula in a professional capacity but never felt quite ready. I have now accepted the mantle and recently completed a course to expand my skills and I feel ready to be of service to whoever is drawn to me at the right time.

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I see death as a natural conclusion to life and have a passion to assist others to embrace death in a loving and intuitive way that reflects and honour’s the dying person. I will guide you, be with you and hold your hand every step of the way. I love to use ceremony and ritual to transition us through this process with an unwavering experienced hand. 

I am now also teaching the LIfe Options Death Doula course face-to-face in Cairns, Nth QLD

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I  have over 30 years of experience in group facilitation and counselling.   I have been a teacher of  "Basic Counselling and Communication Skills",  Facilitator of various Women’s, Parenting, and Self-Awareness groups and courses 

I attained my Diploma in Holistic Pulsing in 2004 ​ and went on to graduate as a Teacher with the “Australian School of Holistic Pulsing” in 2005, I now operate under the name "The Power of Gentle Healing" and offer workshops and online training at all levels to Practitioner and Teacher Levels.  

I am a Mum to 4 daughters and Nana to 5 Grandkids and after previously residing in Bali for 4 years,(I returned when Covid came) I based myself n Lismore, Northern NSW, until the great floods of Feb 2022, where I lost most of my possessions and a place to live.

After moving between my daughter's houses for a few months I have ended up in Cairns, where I am regularly housesitting and trying to recreate my life once again.