Soul Midwives Scotland

Resources

Access our recommended links, books, downloadable PDFs and other resources here

Downloads and Free PDFs

Nearing End of Life – a guide for relatives and friends

Pushing Up the Daisies – Practical Care of Someone at Home After their Last Breath

When someone has died – NHS Scotland

Useful Websites

The first port of call for finding out about Soul Midwives, the work that we do, and the courses that are offered if you’re thinking about training to become a Soul Midwife.

Soul Midwives School

Pushing Up The Daisies

Offering information and online courses for anyone who would like to know more about how to care for loved ones after their death and to keep, or bring them home for the days before the funeral.

Good Grief

Excellent resources and information on all types of grief and loss. Also includes details about some of the many organisations who can support both you and those for whom you are caring.

Independent and inspirational Funeral Directors, who also offer educational and community based events online and in person, around end of life care, funerals and bereavement.

Full Circle Funerals

Scotland wide network who provide invaluable resources, support and ideas for people in Scotland who want to improve the experience of caring, dying and grieving within their communities.

Good Life Good Death Good Grief

Offering emotional support and companionship to people facing crisis, dealing with trauma, or at end of life, through a volunteer network recruited and trained by NODA Ayrshire.

No One Dies Alone - Ayrshire

Companion Voices

Companion Voices are singers based in the UK who sing at the bedside of those who are dying. For more information about joining them, or asking them to sing, please visit their site.

Video and Podcasts

Kathryn Mannix – ‘Dying is not as bad as you think’
Palliative care doctor and author Kathryn Mannix argues that it’s time to break the taboo that exists around death.

Dementia Friends help people living with dementia by taking actions – both big and small. Watch Ruth Owen as she presents here an introduction to Dementia Friends Training.

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Books

This wonderful book of Felicity’s is an absolute must for anyone at, or caring for someone at, their end of life.

An invaluable source of information for anyone who feels called to explore Soul Midwifery, or to become a Soul Midwife.

An inspirational exploration of working with Oils on a deeper level, for healing body, mind and spirit.

A heartfelt and practical guide to the options we have in caring for someone after their death and before their funeral.

A uniquely visual, and practical guide to how it is to experience grief – what helps, and what doesn’t.

A very helpful and accessible map for anyone who wants to be involved – at any level – in arranging a funeral.

Describes the Celtic rituals of honouring death and dying and offers prayers, meditations, and blessings for the time of transition.

With beautifully crafted stories taken from nearly four decades of clinical practice, this book answers the most intimate questions about the process of dying.

A book about what it’s like to become older and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn’t, and where our ideas about death may have gone wrong.