Deana Ruston, SBD

Certified Birth & Bereavement Doula® serving Ontario Canada

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Deana Ruston, SBD is honoured to be walking this journey with you.
She is a Stillbirthday certified birth & bereavement doula.
She is working towards her Bachelors of Arts in Thanatology (grief & bereavement) at King’s University College, at The University of Western Ontario, and is hoping to graduate in the summer of 2015.
She has a keen interest in play therapy and working with children regarding the loss of their siblings. 
Although never experiencing the challenges of trying to conceive or of pregnancy and infant loss, drawing on her experiences from birth, being born at 25 weeks gestation, she believes she is called to this work and continues to let that experience guide her. She and her twin sister, have their own charity, Pennies For Preemies. It provides awareness of preterm birth and raises funds for the NICU at the Children’s Hospital in London, Ontario, Canada.

 

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
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