This article, which is collaborative in nature and based on our subjectivities, launches a series dedicated to a cluster of spheres and/or practices that are an invitation to contemplation.

Contemplative practices are transversal strategies, present in my life and in the support I offer as a Transition Doula.

This article presents a brief summary of the video available here, referring to the Lecture “Ritualizing Death, Celebrating Life”.

In this article, I address the relationship between Deep Ecology, Ethics, our identity and compassion.

Continuing the Deep Ecology series, in this article I present The Work that Reconnects, formulated by Joanna Macy.

This article begins a series dedicated to Deep Ecology, one of the movements that supports and inspires the services I provide as a Transiti

The counselling I offer is aimed at people who are going through significant changes, which can be

This roundtable stems from a deep desire expressed by Carlos Chan when we first met, to create a space to give voice to people who have...

This post continues the previous one, where I suggest you start reading. Wanderings from the body to the kitchen The architecture of the...

In my gut, intuition and curiosity have long been moving to combine two universes – eating and living, and how they intertwine and...

The figure of the doula in the community The role doulas play has been present in communities throughout history. Providing care and...

In response to the article by journalist Helena Bento, Cuidar de quem está no fim da vida (Caring for People at the End of Life - to read...

Inspired by a visit to the St John's Cathedral in Valletta, Malta, today I write about a subject that has bubbled up in me from a long time - the contemplation of death . Latin culture coined it with the expression Memento Mori , meaning "remember, that you too will die" . Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor, exemplified this practice in a meditation: Imagine that you have died today, look at your dead body. Then consider your life from now on, what do you want to do with the

From ancient cults in which death was celebrated we have moved to practices mediated by commodification... We avoid thinking about death...