Hello
I'm Fiona, and I live in Totnes, South Devon with my husband Mark and our glossy black labrador Momo.
When I'm not working, you'll usually find me outside — in the garden or walking as mindfully as possible in the beautiful landscape that surrounds us.
I am a born organiser! I love a good process that brings about positive change. I like to see things through to completion while bringing an unhurried, flexible and gentle approach to all that I do.
My Story
Following decades of delivering projects in the corporate and community sectors, in recent years my path has shifted closer to the mystery of life and death.
After losing several dearly loved ones — some far too soon — I began the personal journey of making friends with death. Through these experiences I learned something fundamental: that dying is the most important thing that will happen to us, yet fear often stops us from preparing for it.
I now believe that when we face death openly, we learn to live more fully — to see our time here, and the people we love, as the precious and temporary gifts they truly are.
My various experiences led me to work most recently with Rowcroft Hospice and to begin training as an End of Life Doula.
However, for most of my career I worked as a project manager and management consultant — first in the corporate sector in London and the US, and later delivering community projects with the Transition Towns movement here in Totnes and beyond.
I love project work as each one is different and offers the chance to learn a lot. I enjoyed running large change projects for major organisations in the UK and the USA, and then left London about 20 years ago, and became involved in shaping and delivering innovative community-based projects. I’m proud to say some of these projects have won awards and since been replicated internationally.
This is the practical underpinning I bring to end of life planning - but the deeper foundation is more personal. For the last 12 years I have been a student of the Diamond Approach — a deep exploration of spiritual maturity and what it means to live as a grown-up human being in today's world.
This practice teaches me to sit quietly with difficult things, and to find steadiness and clarity, rather than anxiety, in the face of the unknown.
These strands of my life have woven together and brought me to this place, and this offering to you.
I'm an End of Life Doula in training with Living Well Dying Well and a member of the End of Life Doula UK professional association. I'm insured and DBS checked. I provide practical planning support and do not give legal, financial, or medical advice.
I dedicate this website, and this work, to my brother Andy (1971–2022), with love and lasting appreciation for everything he taught me about life and death.