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/