“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.
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Body
Hands-on Comforting Care, Non-medical Care
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Spirit
Prayerful, meditative presence within own beliefs and practices Intellect: Life Review, Reflection, Legacy, Story Telling
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Emotion
Family Dynamics, Grief, Forgiveness
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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 its 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