SERVICES & Offerings

End of Life Planning & Support

As End of Life Guides, our my role is to provide compassionate, non-medical, holistic support that encompasses the emotional, spiritual, and practical needs of those facing the end of their life and the circle of loved ones who support them. We will work together to create an end-of-life plan and experience for you and your circle of support that is aligned with your values and allows for more peace and ease in your final days. End-of-life support can look like…

  • Family meeting facilitation to ensure your wishes are clearly communicated and your circle of support feels informed and resourced.

  • Service coordination with hospice and/or private caregiving or support services such as music therapy, meal delivery, housekeeping services, etc.

  • Respite for caregivers. A dying person’s circle of support also needs tended to. It is important that caregivers are given the opportunity to rest and recharge so they can continue in their role.

  • Compassionate conversation & life review.

  • Creation and integration of ceremony and ritual.

  • Vigil sitting. This is the period of time in the hours or days before death.

  • After death care. This can include a body washing & blessing & home funeral support or assistance with funeral or memorial service arrangements outside of the home

  • Grief support

Advanced Care Planning

Advanced care planning (ACP) is a process where individuals with decision-making capacity discuss and document their future healthcare wishes, essentially outlining what kind of medical treatment they want or don’t want to receive if they become unable to communicate their preferences due to a medical situation; this is typically done through a legal document called an advance directive. The process of advanced care planning is informed by your values and beliefs.

Advanced care planning is a multi-step process which includes reviewing the document, discussing how you might go about decision-making, including how to choose your healthcare agent, and then clearly documenting those decisions. We will also discuss ways to have conversations with loved ones about your wishes as this is often the most challenging aspect of advanced care planning.

As people age and their life circumstances and health conditions change, reviewing and communicating healthcare preferences is important to ensure those wishes are honored.

Grief Support

Grief is not something to fix or move past—it’s something to honor, tend to, and integrate. It can be hard in modern times to know that we will be protected and safe in grief, to know that we can come undone and that we will come out the other side. To be able to grieve well we must have time. Grief is not compatible with productivity and our culture values productively above all else. To be able to grieve well we need the support of community. Grief is nearly impossible to endure without the support of others. To be able to grieve well we must be brave. We fear death and loss and grief so it’s an act of courage to enter into grief. When we suspend grief and don’t allow the process of grieving, it doesn’t go away. It can come out sideways as anger, addiction, or disease. 

I can support you in creating space for healing, cultivating remembrance, and finding ways to carry your grief with greater ease. Whether your loss is recent or years in the past, you do not have to walk this path alone. To be witnessed creates with-ness.

Education & Advocacy

For too long we’ve allowed fear to keep us from talking openly about death and dying. As a result, the beauty and gifts of being fully present at this threshold can be missed and grief can be complicated by regret or guilt. My goal is to empower you to reflect on and communicate your wishes for your dying experience and to encourage you to invite others, with curiosity and compassion, into more conversations where the reality of our mortality can be explored.

I believe that families should be empowered to care for their own during and after death. To use your hands and your body to care for someone you love in their final days and then lay them to rest, to participate in this sacred act, rather than just observing it, is everything. This is where true healing begins.

Through community presentations, small group workshops, film screenings, and community discussions, we seek to share information and resources to further the movement of returning deathcare to our families and community. Please reach out and we can discuss options specific to your needs, audience, and desired outcome.

Community & Connection

We can relinquish the idea of being strong and resilient on our own. We can relinquish a version of ourselves that chooses suffering over ease. We can relinquish being seen as capable of sustaining our lives on our own and we can claim something more powerful, more whole, more human. We can be a community.

We are stronger together. There is hope in connecting with people who are being brought to the edges of themselves by grief and still finding ways to love this world, those who still know how to laugh and plant seeds in the depths of despair.

Ernest Hemmingway once said, “In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection-quiet presence, a gentle touch. These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much.”

We offer regular and ongoing opportunities to connect with others on this journey.