In 2024, I lost both of my parents, both in their mid 60s, and just months apart. In being with my mom during her final days, I found myself stepping into the role of a death doula – a calling that awakened something deeply ancestral within me. I had never been present to a death before, and while intellectually I didn’t “know” what to do, my body and soul remembered and took over. Witnessing my mom’s transition was profoundly life-changing and transformative – a moment of deep threshold magic and spiritual work.

Then, just several weeks after her passing, my stepfather unexpectedly suffered a stroke, which left my siblings and I scrambling to navigate unexpected end-of-life discussions, directives, wishes, manage their home, pets, accounts, finances - all while working and parenting young children ourselves. Hello, stressful! After his passing, I left my 17 year career as an infant feeding therapist, enrolled in a death doula training program, became a hospice volunteer - and I truly feel I've found my soul's calling.

I am no longer the person I once was. And so, out of the ashes of my previous life, I offer to you my rebirth – and the magic and medicine of Enchanted Mournings.

“Rebirth is the word we use when we walk out of the flames, our spirits and bones alive with a purpose and passion as deep as the ocean.”
-Nikita Gill

I acknowledge that beneath and around my home are the traditional lands of the Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and Puyallup peoples as well as the Salish tribes who visited and traded in this area. I honor with gratitude, the land and these tribes, past and present for time immemorial.

Hi, I’m Stella!

I'm a death doula, end-of-life guide, hospice volunteer and founder of Enchanted Mournings.

I'm also a tarot reader, Reiki practitioner, intuitive energy healer, sacred ceremony facilitator, hobbyist herbalist and mother of two wild and free-spirited daughters.