Rosemary Raven Hearth

I’m Erika Hall. I do my work where culture looks away.

I am a Taboo Doula

My passions live where culture looks away…death and sex. I created the Taboo Doula path to bring them back into honest light. End-of-life support and embodiment belong together here, alongside open and honest talk about consent, kink, aftercare, safety, and self-passion.

This work lives both in the sacred and the practical. It is ritual and it is logistics. It’s the vigil at the end of a life, the conversation that frees a body from shame, and the plans families need when feelings and paperwork collide.

What I offer

• End-of-Life Doula Support: vigil planning, legacy work, family communication, advocacy, ritual, and grounded presence
• Grief Support & Circles: language for loss, practices for staying with what hurts, community care
• Embodiment & Education: consent-centered conversations, body literacy, kink and fetish literacy, aftercare and safety practices, self-pleasure ethics
• Ritual & Thresholds: ceremonies for endings, beginnings, and the moments between

Where I practice

I practice in community at Pollinate Hive House in Windsor Heights, Iowa, and online. I also host Death Cafés at public libraries across the greater Des Moines area as dates and partnerships allow. I co-facilitate grief support at Pollinate and will host Sex Café beginning in 2026. Thresholds deserve company and comfortable seating.

What we talk about here

Grief, dying, deathcare, bodies, desire, boundaries, repair, aftercare, safety, self-passion. No euphemisms. No moralizing. Adult conversations, held with skill and care.

How I work

• Consent is the floor. Clear agreements before any practice, always.
• Ritual is a tool, not a performance. If it helps, we use it. If it doesn’t, we don’t.
• Plain language. You will understand what we’re doing and why.
• Collaboration. I partner with clinicians and therapists when appropriate.
• Access matters. Sliding-scale options and virtual sessions available, pay what you can, or barter/trade.

Boundaries and safety

Education, coaching, and doula care are not medical care or psychotherapy. I do not provide clinical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. I maintain strict boundaries around privacy and scope, and I will always name the line before we approach it.

Who this space welcomes

All genders, orientations, bodies, and relationship structures. Neurodivergent and disabled folks are welcome. Bring access needs in plain language; I will meet them where I can and name limits clearly.

Stay connected

Grief circles occur throughout the year; Sex Café launches in 2026. Event dates and registration will be posted on the Events page and the Pollinate site.