Blog | Erin Chambers: Life Coach & Death Doula

What's your relationship with Death?

Congratulations for reading this article. By doing so, you are becoming more familiar with death. Death is something we will all...

Legacy - what do you want to share? It's not just about money...

Legacy can mean so many things. Most people only think of legacy in financial terms, which is understandable, especially if you use...

Postponing the inevitable isn't going to stop it from happening

Death emphasizes our vulnerability. Feeling vulnerable often makes us feel unsafe or exposed. Our natural instinct is to want to guard...

Calling out the bull$@*!

It’s ok to call people out on their bull$@*!. It can be hard to do and, most times, the people you are calling out don’t like it. Usually...

Start with this one question…

It’s important to let others in your life know what is important to you. Sometimes it can feel really difficult to have these...

Acceptance

Acceptance is defined by Wikipedia as: the recognition of the reality or a situation, recognizing a process or condition without...

Death, guilt and the concern for letting people down

I was watching a show the other night and it got me thinking about death, guilt and the concern for letting people down because of our...

Cut yourself some slack

Give yourself grace. Pause from all the things you think you ‘ought to’ do, ‘should’ do or ‘have to’ do. Who created these expectations...

Self-judgment - it’s something we all do

Self-judgment-it’s something we all do. We fear. We worry. We judge ourselves before anyone else can. Regardless of the motive,...

Death...it isn't something we can fix.

The word ‘death’ elicits many types of reactions. You had one right now, didn’t you? Just reading that word brought forth a thought, a...

What is grief?

What is grief? It is the response to loss, specifically the death of something that we had a bond to-a person, an animal, a relationship,...

Dealing with grief and loss over the holiday season

Dealing with grief and loss over the holiday season can be a hard thing to navigate. It is a very emotional time…or a very numbing time....