How Can I Serve You
As a death doula, I provide understanding for what you can do now to prepare for your own death or the death of a loved one, at any age. By considering and planning for death we can learn how to be present and enjoy the time we have left. Lawyers help with trusts and estates, medical personal help with your health and keep you comfortable, funeral directors help make your final arrangements, but who is offering emotional support and guidance?
A death doula provides you and your loved ones with the education to make informed decisions and plans. They provide care before, during, and after death, by being a consistent companion and space holder for the grief and questions about the dying process. I specialize in education and planning to help empower you to advocate for the wishes of yourself and your loved ones. By facilitating conversations about death, we can express our needs as well as listen to and understand the needs of our loved ones. I am committed to serving you in love, holding space to listen to your needs and finding ways to support you meeting your needs. We can work together in person or virtually. See my offerings below.
-Disposition methods: What to do with your body, remains, and state laws
-How to plan your funeral: What type of service and details
-Explaining paperwork: Medical, legal, and other forms
-Make a vigil plan for active dying
-Laying in state and care of body
-Stages of dying and preparing for an expected death
-Stages of grief, what it feels like, and how to support others
End of Life Education
-Getting affairs in order and creating instructions for after death
-Swedish death cleaning: Downsizing now to leave less behind
-Facilitate conversations between the dying and their loved ones
-Provide comfort and advocate for the wishes of the dying and their loved ones
-Discuss quality of life, aging, and losing parts of self
-Provide respite care and support to caregivers
-Free companion care for those who are actively dying and don't have loved ones present
-Conversations with dying, holding sacred space, and offering spiritual and emotional support
-Grief gatherings, a meet up or walk to hold space and listen
-Creating rituals, including grief rituals and anniversary celebrations
-Celebrant services for death or “til death do you part”
-Creating memorial gifts and grief art together
-Creating legacy projects to leave behind
-Holding space to listen, offer support, and find resources for the dying and their loved ones
-Ash scattering services