Resources

Creative Care Work for Mortals Bookshop: This collection offers book recommendations for those engaging in creative care and death or grief work. Whether personally, professionally or communally there is something for everyone. From memoirs and essays to young adult or kiddo options and poetic meditations, these titles support anyone seeking to approach mortality with honesty and creative presence.

Creative Care Work for Mortals Newsletter: This newsletter is about death, grief, loss, change and creativity. Through reflections, resources, music, creative practices, and invitations to pause and wonder, I explore the places where endings and beginnings meet and how creativity can help us care for ourselves, each other, and the lives we’re living.

Local Midwest Death & Grief Workers/Collectives

Addie with Moonlit Moth Doula services: https://www.moonlitmoth.com/

- Serving Council Bluffs, Iowa & Omaha, NE & beyond

Death Doula Hannah: https://www.deathdoulahannah.com/

- Serving Lincoln & Omaha, NE & beyond

Natalie with Daisy Lane Deathwork: https://www.alignable.com/omaha-ne/daisy-lane-deathwork-and-doula-services

-Serving Omaha, NE

Amy Hensley MSN, RN Education & Consulting: https://amyhensley.com/

-Serving Lincoln & Omaha, NE & beyond

Meghan with Madison Death STUDIO + bookshop -https://www.madisondeathstudio.com/

- Serving Madison, WI & beyond

Sarah Sun with Sun Medicine @ Balm Tattooing: https://www.instagram.com/sun.medicine/?hl=en

- Serving Grand Rapids, MI & beyond

Michigan Deathcare Collaborative: https://www.mideathcare.org/

Minnesota Death Collective: https://www.mndeathcollaborative.org/

Gateway End of Life Coalition: https://gatewayeol.com/midwest-end-of-life-doula-collective-2/

- Serving St. Louis, MO

Death Collective of Eastern Iowa: https://www.deathcollectiveeasterniowa.com/

The Ohio Bereavement Collaborative: https://ohiobc.com/

Columbus Community Death Care: https://columbuscommunitydeathcare.com/

- Serving Columbus, OH

Lauren with Death Done Differently: https://deathdonedifferently.com/

- Serving Fort Wayne, IN & beyond

Amy Putney Koenig with Departure End of Life Services - https://www.amyputneykoenigart.com/

- Serving Des Moines, Iowa

End of Life Care Upper Peninsula Michigan: https://www.upcap.org/end-of-life-care

Greater Milwaukee Death Doulas: https://gmdeathdoulas.com/

-Serving Milwaukee, Wi & beyond

Nickky with Solace for the Soul Death Care & Grief Support:https://www.autumn.co/providers/us/wi/plover/death-doulas/enjjw9/solace-for-the-soul

- Serving Plover, WI & beyond

Chicago Death Doula Collective https://www.chicagodeathdoulacollective.com/