Dying To Ask with Christy B.

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This one is personal. It is one of the ways I came into Death Doula work without realizing the path I was on. I hope you like it and I hope you take a little something for yourself from it. XOXO, Christy

There is a documentary out right now called Caregiving, and famous people are finally talking about this work out loud. But nobody is filming you. This one is for the family caregivers doing the invisible, exhausting, sacred work with no camera crew and no applause. Christy talks about Bradley Cooper's documentary and the wave of celebrities going public with their own caregiving stories, from...

Episode description We tend to think grief only counts if someone died. Dr. Megan Rhoads is here to widen that. Grief is a whole-person response to losing anything that helped organize your life, your identity, or the future you were counting on. A death, yes. Also a move, a breakup, an empty nest, or letting go of who you used to be. In this conversation, Megan gets honest about the loss that und...

Most of what we think we know about dying is wrong. And most of it is gentler than we fear. In this episode I take you to the bedside. To the last days and hours, and what actually happens there. I share what I've learned from sitting with people near the end. Why some people wait until the room is quiet to go. What the changed breathing really means, and why it isn't the suffering familie...

This episode is dedicated to someone I love dearly. Don't worry my friend, I am holding our memories tightly; I carry them with me in this work and every day. I love you. ----- Christy sits down with Lori Rizzo of Compassionate Crossings, her go-to voice on dementia care, to say the hard things plainly. Dementia is terminal, and it is more than memory loss. Lori Rizzo shows up for the moments...

When you are grieving, people hand you a lot of gentle suggestions when even the small things feel like too much. This week I want to offer you one more, and it is smaller and lower stakes than almost anything else. Stickers. I know how that sounds. So we are going to sit with that together, and I am going to show you how a five-minute thing you did as a kid might be a small comfort on the days th...

Find Helen Website: https://pinnacledoula.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-dunkle-msn-rn-bcFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/PinnacleDoula A Luxury and a Privilege with Helen Dunkle, RN Helen Dunkle, RN spent more than forty years at the bedside. She started in labor and delivery, crying through every birth, and she ended up in hospice, sitting with families through the last breath....

Website: sharewithleaf.com Instagram: @sharewithleaf There are sounds we hold onto. The way someone says our name. A laugh we would know anywhere. In this episode I sit down with Barrie Farivar, founder of Leaf, to talk about capturing the voices and stories of the people we love before they fade. Barrie spent fourteen years in technology at Google and YouTube. Then her dad shared an old recording...

We bring the casserole. We say a quick thing at the door. Then we get out fast, because standing in someone's grief with no plan to fix it is the part that scares us most. This episode is for the bystanders, the friends who want to help in the midst of death. We take apart the belief that keeps us frozen, that we need the right words to show up for someone. There are no right words. There is no se...

Someone you love has died, and now there is a blank page to fill. Most of us freeze and reach for the dates and the job titles, and somehow the warm, funny, real person disappears behind a list. This week we do it differently. Because a eulogy is not a resume. It is the story of a person. It is your chance to stand in front of everyone who loved them and say, out loud, here is who they were, and h...

5. Congratulations on your diagnosis: As a free bonus, you'll be handling everyone else's feelings about it. One of my closest friends called me today because she wasn't sure how to explain what I do to someone who needed help. I could have felt some kind of way about that. Instead it gave me this episode. In this one I talk about the part of my work that almost nobody names. When you get a diagno...

In the latest episode of 'Dying to Ask,' we tackle the profound and often unspoken belief that death equates to failure. Join me as I offer a new perspective that transforms the narrative around life's inevitable completion, encouraging presence, love, and the understanding that death deserves as much care as birth. ChristyBraun.com for more information and resources. 00:00 Welcome and Core Belief...

The Conversation You Keep Avoiding: Asking Your Parents What They Want at the End of Life Christy B. explains why it’s important to talk with parents or caregivers about what they would want at the end of life, sharing how her father was panic-stricken when asked to decide about a feeding tube for his Parkinson’s-affected father without knowing his wishes. She outlines common reasons people avoid...

Christy reflects on nighttime watch at sea and how six years living aboard a sailboat taught her lessons that later shaped her work as a Death Doula sitting with dying people. She contrasts the romantic image of boat life with its realities—constant maintenance, tight quarters, and the ever-present weather concerns and draws bedside wisdom from those memories. Noting that the only true choice is o...

Death doula, Christy Braun, M.S. introduces her podcast as an honest, untidy space to talk openly about death, dying, caregiving, and grief without platitudes, promising to stay with listeners through the hard parts. She explains that caregivers often seek more information, but what steadies them is practical support and focusing on what matters right now. Suggestions include creating simple daily...

Dying to Ask with Christy B. is a podcast about death, dying, and what it really means to care for someone at the end of life. Hosted by death doula and end-of-life educator, Christy Braun, each episode opens up honest conversations about hospice care, palliative care, caregiver burnout, anticipatory grief, advance directives, and the dying process itself. Christy brings tender, grounded, practica...