Elizabeth became interested in birth when she became pregnant with her first son. Already having a deep love of anatomy and physiology from her yoga teacher training and practice, the physiology of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum became an easy new topic to dive into. Since, Elizabeth has had two boys, both with the support of amazing doulas on her side.

Becoming a doula was always a dream of hers but as a single mom of two it wasn’t the most realistic goal. As her boys grew more independent & her support community grew deeper she felt ready to jump in. To her surprise, she was gifted (refer back to that community support <3) her Doula Training in 2021.

Elizabeth’s approach to birth work is based in informed choice and trust. She has no agenda to what her client’s births should look like…. her goal is for each birther to leave their births feeling empowered and feeling like they made their own choices throughout their birth.

When not doing birth work, Elizabeth is busy as co-owner/founder of The Portland Yoga Project and driving her two boys to various skateparks, basketball courts, and soccer fields.

Victoria began her relationship to death and grieving from a young age. Always fascinated with her own ancestral connections, the idea that those who have died are still in relationship to us as living people felt natural to understand. Because of her intuitive ancestral connection, death and dying never made her fearful, but rather has imbued her with a respectful curiosity and deep capacity for feeling that is the benchmark of her work.

In her 20s, Victoria was a dependent caregiver for a family while living in California, which put her face to face with the realities of patience advocacy, comfort care at the end of life, and watching a community grapple with the decision to surrender to the death process. At the start of the pandemic, family and community deaths from covid-19 reawakened a desire to serve grievers in their most tender time.

She completed her death doula training in 2022 through Going with Grace, lead by Alua Arthur, as well as hospice volunteer training through beacon health in South Portland. She’s also been running monthly grief workshops on the last Friday of every month at Portland Yoga Project since 2022.

Creating Grief Dwellings has been a loving culmination of these experiences, coupled with a deep desire to truly see and hold the hurts of people who are battered by life’s many changes. Creating a home for our grief in the body as an act of resilience and community building is some of the most purposeful and fulfilling work that she’s ever been a part of.

Kaeleigh came to this work in 2014 and has supported hundreds of folks from learning about their cycles through postpartum. She's a queer community herbalist, body literacy educator & full-spectrum Doula.

Her goal is for you to feel deeply cared for and seen throughout your family forming journey. She hopes to create a container in which you feel held and safe. She hopes to empower you to make the choices that are your own and help you find the information you need for this tender transition. In a world that often reinforces disengaging from our bodies and intuition, she hopes to help bring you back to center. She is an educator and advocate at heart.

Kaeleigh is here for all that may come from pre-conception through parenting. She wants you to feel that your choices are your own- that you feel informed & held through the tenderness & the sweetness of transition. She provides support through all variations of pregnancy release and will never stop fighting for access to safe abortions for all.

When she is not tending to folks and talking about bodies, she can always be found amongst the trees and working with herbs. She hates to sit still and hopes to always be laughing.

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As an Ordained Interspiritual and Interfaith Minister and Intuitive Coach, Rev. Devin Green is the Founder and Minister of Connection at The Connected Way™. She believes that connection is the healing path forward for us as individuals and the collective. 

Part of living connected is honoring our experiences with presence, care, connection and intention, and that is deeply apparent in Devin’s work with spiritual counseling and unique and connective rituals that honor all the transitions we experience in life: transitions we typically honor in our society such as baby blessings, weddings and funerals, but Devin is also passionate about supporting people navigating transitions we don’t often honor: abortions, miscarriages, choosing to not have children, divorces, separations, career shifts, geographic moves and more. 

To all your transitions, Devin brings compassion, empathy, intuitive counseling, and a lot of spiritual understanding from many many spiritual traditions - she is incredibly curious and constantly exploring the meaning of life, death and all the transitions we experience. You can learn about Devin’s work with transitions and rituals here and learn more about her and what she believes here.  

Rev Dev is available to support Threshold clients with all they’re navigating with birth and death: spiritual counseling for anything and everything, support and rituals for pregnancy loss or termination, a new baby or family transition, as well as all end of life rituals and experiences. Her services are linked throughout our services and you can also reach out to her on her website here.  

Alice discovered a passion for working with others around dying and death in 2012. In 2019, she earned a certificate in the Death Midwifery with Olivia Bareham in Los Angeles, and in 2021,  a certificate in Community Deathcare from Anne-Marie Keppel's Village Deathcare Citizen Training. She is a member of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA) and earned the NEDA proficiency badge in Scope of Practice, Code of Ethics, and Core Competencies for End-of-Life Doulas. She is a board member emeritus of the National Home Funeral Alliance, a 501(c)3 that educates and advocates for inclusive and accessible community-led deathcare.

She is also a Reiki practitioner and explores creativity as a connection to the unknown. She is a multi-faceted and highly sensitive person, and brings the skills of intuition, curiosity, gentle guidance, and administrative acumen to her work as a death & dying companion. 

Alice believes that when we are fortunate to have the time and space to contemplate our own death, it is important to also consider that there are not equal opportunities for all humans within deathcare, the western medical system, and society at large. People die in many ways and make many diverse choices about their own deaths. There is no unified definition of a "good" death. She offers her death practice for the justice and liberation of all beings.

Find more about Alice here.