If you or your family are navigating an active diagnosis or loss, call (206) 617‑1199. For emotional crisis, call or text 988 anytime.

Stars and seashells are made of me.
I am made of seashells and stars.

A two-frame strip on the Seattle waterfront: Miranda Sita hidden behind two enormous bouquets of dahlias, then laughing with the flowers in her arms.

The Doula

Celebrating being alive, on the Seattle waterfront, Washington

Founder & Principal Producer

Miranda Sita

she/they · Bainbridge Island, Washington

I make records of people's lives, and I sit with the families who are losing them.

Learn more at mirandasita.com

How I got here

Bainbridge Death Support is named the way it is on purpose.

Support, as in: someone shows up, figures out what's broken, and helps you through it. I come from documentary work and digital storytelling, the kind of craft that turns a life into something you can hold.

Bainbridge, as in: where I am. Not who this is for.

I followed that work here.

Hands holding an oyster shell and driftwood found at low tide on the Salish Sea (Puget Sound).

low tide, the Salish Sea (Puget Sound)

Miranda holding an oyster shell up in front of her face on the beach.

beach finds

A photo-booth strip from Chicago: the three of them laughing in front of a mosaic portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama; and her small son alone on a wide floor, looking up at four enormous salvaged letters spelling HOPE.

Certified End-of-Life Doula: National End-of-Life Doula Alliance
Remote, and in person here: Based on Bainbridge Island, working wherever the story is

NEDA Member, National End-of-Life Doula Alliance

Miranda and her toddler sitting together on a driftwood log among beach grass.

motherhood is the most mind-bending experience. Levi, my absolute joy

I live on the south end of Bainbridge Island with my people and my animals. The water is close. The ferry comes and goes.

Motherhood out here is lonely in a way nobody warns you about, so I built somewhere to put it: a private circle for mothers between Seattle and the Olympics, on Suquamish land, where nobody uses their real name. If that is you, come and find us.

Bainbridge Island, Washington · Est. 2025

north side walks with Levi

Bainbridge Death Support calls home the ancestral lands of the Suquamish People (suq̀wabš, the People of Clear Salt Water) and their Coast Salish relatives, who have tended these shores and waters since time immemorial, and tend them still. It's God's country. I'm so fortunate to be here.

If this place has given you something too, consider giving back through the Suquamish Foundation, which supports the Tribe's cultural revival, education, and community.

Call or text my monitored line at (206) 617‑1199 to leave a message or schedule a time to talk. Or book directly → Reserve 30 minutes

Not ready to connect yet? Read the Journal or join my newsletter and get to know my work quietly, from a distance. I don't update it often on purpose.

Photographs by Austin Sita and Mike Schneider.

Founded by Miranda Sita, Bainbridge Island. she/they

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