“Let Love be the guiding Light”

Sacred Passage

End of Life Doula

WHAT IS AN END OF LIFE DOULA?

Sacred Passage End of Life Doula Creates a Beautiful Life through Death Experience for you and your family in any care setting helping you define the care you want and need and filling the gap between medical and or hospice care. You can count on and trust us to Support your family’s emotional spiritual and non-medical physical care needs Before, During and After Death.

Doulas are frontline caregivers who offer comforting care to families and residents during illness and the dying process. Their compassionate presence increases quality life-moments for all involved.
Brook is trained in holistic care modalities bringing comfort and peace to those at end of life and their families. She fills the “care-gap”, supporting family and medical teams.

She will help residents and families identify life and care priorities on the spot and offering the “Best Three Months” exercises, life coaching and planning guided by the wishes and choices of the resident and family.

HOW DO THEY HELP?

The presence of an End of Life Doula can assist families and loved ones to focus on what is most important to them. Available to assist in working with grief, forgiveness, creating ceremony or ritual, and bringing healing practices to the sacred process of dying before, during, and after death.

  • Body

    Hands-on Comforting Care, Non-medical Care

  • Spirit

    Prayerful, meditative presence within own beliefs and practices Intellect: Life Review, Reflection, Legacy, Story Telling

  • Emotion

    Family Dynamics, Grief, Forgiveness

  • Practical

    After Death Care & Attendance

ACTIVITIES OF A DOULA

  • Provides Comfort Care Therapies like: Aromatherapy, Touch, Easing the Breath, Guided visualization, relaxation, forgiveness

  • Holds Space and protects desired transition and final days hours minutes of life Provides respite for caregivers

  • Creates and facilitates rituals

  • Provides bereavement and grief referrals and support

  • Fill the Care-Gaps in Medical and Reimbursable Care Beyond and in Support of Hospice and Palliative Care Beyond Advanced Directives

  • Beyond Right to Die to Rites of Passage

  • Beyond Do No Harm to Care and Healing for All

  • Provides Emotional Spiritual Support to all involved

  • Provides practical information, safety and structure

  • Explains her services and information to the family and patient and explains healing choices for care developers and advocates to plan for final days

  • Provides continuous compassionate presence

  • Responds flexibly for continuous change

  • Links and connects professionals & services to fulfill care plan

  • Restores Death to it Sacred and Natural place in the beauty, celebration, and mystery of life

  • Demystifies the stages of the dying process

  • Achieves good death as defined by most all involved

  • Sits Vigil: With the Help of a Doula Team-Provides care and is present during moments of final stage of dying

  • Supports caregivers and families to process the death and loss