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OUR SERVICES
END OF LIFE PLANNING
Create a holistic plan that includes understanding and completing important documents like advance directives, taking inventory of your financial health, making decisions about who’s responsible for honoring your wishes, and organizing your real and digital assets. Ensure your chosen representatives are completely organized with everything at their fingertips.
ACTIVE DYING SUPPORT
As the last breath draws near, emotions run high and this is when patients and caregivers need the invaluable support of end of life doulas. I work with the client to clarify expectations, boundaries and wishes for final transition and convey these to family/caregivers. Feel informed, empowered and supported, so that you can meet any challenge that lies ahead with confidence and peace.
FUNERAL PLANNING
Know your disposition options and what they entail, local providers, and the cost of these services to ensure that you not only know all the options that you have available; traditional, green, cremation, aquamation, home funeral, but that you also know your rights around planning a funeral. Additionally, a clear plan will ensure your wishes are followed in detail and your loved ones are left in peace and without question regarding disposition.
HOME FUNERAL SUPPORT
A home funeral is a personal, family-centered celebration planned and carried out by family and friends. Caring for the body of a loved one is safe and possible. Home funerals are a beautiful, meaningful, cost-effective option to say goodbye. Get education on local laws and regulations, after-death care: proper bathing and cooling techniques, shrouding and blessing the body, and supplies needed. Get suggestions and assistance to create an environment that honors your loved one while providing a comfortable setting for family and friends. Many families are choosing to return to the simple, hands-on, personal practices of home funerals.
LEGACY WORK
Embark on a meaningful journey designed to preserve and celebrate the unique stories and legacies of you or a loved one. Through personalized interviews, legacy and photo documentation and organization and creative projects, we collaborate on how to pass on generational knowledge and consider how you want to be remembered. Legacy is the imprint that you will leave on the world through story, recipes, music, art, hobbies, love. It’s an incredible gift for the ones you love now and the many to come. Pass down the intangibles, knowledge, and wisdom that you’ve collected in your lifetime, allowing future generations to benefit from the life you’ve lived.
GRIEF SUPPORT
Grief is a natural reaction to loss and is not limited to time and space. It may invite other emotions like anger, resentment, depression. Grief is meant to be fluid and move, not become stuck and hardened. Using spiritual counseling, sacred practices, breathwork, ritual and meditation, one can build resilience and coping strategies to deal with the intense sadness. This helps to accept the reality of the loss, adjust to life without the deceased and maintain a connection with a loved one while finding ways to move on with life.
DEATH REHEARSAL
By recognizing the impermanence of all things, Death Rehearsal gives one the opportunity to cultivate a sense of meaning, gratitude and peace as the journey of the lifespan is completed. Clients gain perspectives on their priorities, values, and relationships. Contemplative moments of closure are offered that can deepen one's understanding of the beauty and perfection of life. Powerful spiritual practices and rituals help one prepare for and accept the circle of life.
LIFE CELEBRATIONS
Create a unique, meaningful tribute to honor the life of your loved one. Go non-traditional and personalize an unforgettable remembrance by choosing an unusual venue, theme, or personalized coffin. Select customized readings and music, get creative with food and drink, offer memorable funeral favors and a noteworthy ritual. Whether it’s a hoedown at a ranch, a spirited gathering at a favorite pub, a symbolic lantern release in a personal garden, a musical event with a live band, or a sports-themed event, we will coordinate a truly special honoring.
