My name is Grace Miller.
Sacred Seasons Death Care was born after I experienced the losses of Annjanette, Wayne, and Emilie. Beyond my personal journey of grief, each of their deaths revealed to me the ways in which our current systems for death and dying are leaving people feeling unsupported, isolated, or rushed through their grief. I believe we can do better for each other, and I want to be a part of transforming our death averse culture into a culture that upholds community and care around death, dying, and grieving.
When I am not serving clients as a death doula, you can usually find me working in the garden with my family, reading a book, or at a local brewery trying the latest craft beer on tap.
Sacred Seasons Death Care is based on the traditional lands of the Puyallup People, also known as Tacoma, Washington. The Puyallup people have lived on this land since the beginning of time. They are still here today. They live, work, raise their children, take care of their community, practice their traditional ways and speak the Twulshootseed language – just as their ancestors did.
Sacred Seasons Death Care has received the NEDA Proficiency Badge, which demonstrates proficiency in the National End-of-Life Doula Association’s Core Competencies.
This is your life and your death.
Wherever you are in your journey with death, I’ll meet you there. My goal is to serve you in whatever ways I can so you can greet death at peace.
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Why the ouroboros?
The ouroboros, the image of a snake or serpent consuming its own tail, is an ancient symbol that appears in various forms across cultures and moments in history. It represents cycles, themes of death and rebirth, seasonal changes, and the universe. I’ve always been drawn to the very visceral imagery of the ouroboros, the way it taps into deeply human themes of grief, fear, hope, embodiment, and connection to community. Serpents have been associated with fear and taboo at certain times in history, and their synchronicity with the taboos of death felt appropriate. When thinking of a symbol that captures the essence of what I hope Sacred Seasons Death Care offers my community, the ouroboros stood out to me as the perfect representation of the both/and of death work. Through Sacred Seasons, I hope to honor the both/and and hold space for the many faceted experience of dying and death.