Welcome! My name is mai. I am a writer and death and grief care practitioner. I facilitate community support spaces around grief and loss, provide a wide range of 1on1 services as a certified end-of-life doula and conscious dying coach, and design and facilitate custom workshops and grief circles for for groups and organizations. My offerings are available both online and locally here in New Mexico.
Through my offerings, I provide compassionate care, guidance, and support through the many cycles of life, death, and change that we encounter in our lives, including those related to chronic illness and disability, C-PTSD, pet loss, bereavement, gender and sexuality, end of life, and more. I also specialize in climate and environmental grief, and teach how the natural world can support us through loss, death, and change. My approach is heart-centered, intersectional, and honors the inherent sovereignty and wisdom of all those who I work with.
Thank you for being here - I look forward to working with you!
Recent Blog Posts
-
Cycles of Living and Change
When change is hard, it’s easy to forget our sense of connection. We believe we are singular and alone. But we are always being held by our inherent connection to a vast and infinite system of life growing towards more life.
-
Seeds of Grief
Seeds are the material through which life not only continues but evolves. If we think about grief as a seed, what does that change in how we orient to our grief? And what kind of potential would live within these tiny, primordial pods?
-
Turning to the Earth in Grief
Our experiences of loss and grief have the potential to expand our awareness and connect us back to the universal cycles and the bigger-than-us wisdom and intelligence that is constantly unfolding within and around us.
water/tongue
A 2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry
“How many ways can we be killed by being forced to fit into a world we didn’t ask for? Here is a poetics of of the trace, of the unpronounced events reverberating on a sparsely marked page, in the space between the cracked house that leaks memory: a girl running. What is the speaker to do with the weight of what her ancestors have lived through? Repatriate the severed tongue. Build a politics of ritual, of hair and rose petals at the bottom of an empty bathtub. mai c. doan’s powerful book water/tongue is written from the position of being in, but not of, this monstrosity we call America. And they would rather stutter than be folded into the Empire."- Jackie Wang, author of Carceral Capitalism
