RUGS: Unfinished Business

In my Death Doula certification with INELDA we centered a lot of our training around RUGS: regrets, unfinished business, guilt and shame. These are considered the greatest emotional challenges people face at end of life. Following the training, the concept became this sort of grounding point for a thesis behind my current studio practice. The idea that we can integrate these emotions at anytime in life, in fact the sooner the better. By doing so, we may shift our process of decision making, to live a life without the burden of their impact. This requires re-learning how to process difficult emotions, and in real time.