Serenity End of Life Doula LLC
"Serenity and Compassion at the End of life"
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The journey will never be easy, but Serenity is here to guide you every step of the way.
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Providing Only the Best Care for You and Your Loved Ones
When the time comes that respite care and bedside vigil become necessary, your loved one’s comfort and well-being are Serenity's top priorities. Allow us to provide you with the best caregiving resources in your area.
Count on Serenity to provide you with all the support and education you need so you can have happier and more meaningful moments with your family and friends up until the end of life.
Services Offered :
Virtual Workshops and Presentations
(In person workshops available with a minimum of 10 participants)
Mobile Respite Care and Beside Vigil Resources
As a a Licensed Willow End of Life Educator™, I am trained and certified to
offer end of life education and planning.
Respite Care
Provides short-term relief for primary caregivers. It can be arranged for just an afternoon or for several days or weeks.
Care can be provided at home, in a healthcare facility, or at an adult day center.
Advanced Care Planning Workshop
Assistance in completing your own Advance Directive, legal document provided.
Bedside Vigil
Sitting by the bedside of a dying loved one keeping awake and alert is a vigil. The vigil can
provide comfort and meaning, resolution and peace to both the dying person and their loved ones.
How to Stop Procrastinating with End-of-Life Planning: A Willow Workshop™
The inevitability of death is the one thing in life we’re certain about, yet most people would do anything to avoid talking or even
thinking about it. It’s certain your future will include death, after-death care (including how you’ll be laid to rest), and the
settling of your estate, regardless of its size. It’s possible that your future will include disability, serious illness, sudden death,
a funeral or ceremony of some kind and the gifting or distribution of your financial assets and precious possessions.
What is holding you back from being more prepared? Devoting time and energy to consider and plan ahead for your future
—including your inevitable death—will change how you die and how you live, right here, right now, and for the rest of your life.
Values, Wishes and Who and What Matter Most: A Willow Workshop™
Many of us know the benefits of preparing for our one-day, some-day death. But sometimes it’s hard to get started.
All this planning-ahead business feels overwhelming and fragmented. Or perhaps some basic planning pieces are in place
but it feels like your planning documents don’t reflect your true essence.
Values, Wishes and Who and What Matter Most will guide you to explore the reality of your mortality in a fun and interactive
workshop. Making sense of life and death before making practical arrangements will ensure that your end-of-life
planning reflects your values and priorities. Whether you have days or decades left to live, thinking about and
preparing for your death will inspire you to live your best life now.
Conscious Health, Personal Care, and Final Wishes: A Willow Workshop™
Either consciously or unconsciously, our past informs our present. Your previous experiences with illness, dying, death, grief, and how
someone was cared for after they died—including any planning that was or wasn’t in place—have undoubtedly shaped your personal
desires and informed your sense of what’s possible and what’s not.
We all have hopes and fears about what might happen (to us and/or the people we leave behind) in the time leading up to our death,
at the moment of our death, and after we die. Whether you have days or decades to live, thinking about and preparing
for your death will change how you die and inspire you to live your best life now.
The 5-Minute Legacy Love Letter®: A Willow Workshop™
With six meaningful prompts, the 5-Minute Legacy Love Letter™ (available for free in the Willow shop) helps you write lasting messages to
important people in your life, and transform those relationships in the here and now.
In this workshop, you’ll be warmed up and guided to write at least one Legacy Love Letter™ to someone in your life. We also discuss how
this powerful tool can be used for people supporting or assisting others.
Writing Your Heart Will® as a Manifesto for Living: A Willow Workshop™
Your Heart Will™ is a tool to help you reflect on your life and create lasting messages for those you love and for future generations. Sometimes referred to as an Ethical Will, Spirit Will or Legacy Letter, your Heart Will™ can be given to specific people at the end of your life, or be shared at a goodbye ritual or ceremony after you die. You might even choose to share your Heart Will™ with others before you die!
Writing your Heart Will™ is also a powerful discovery process that supports you to live and love fully. In essence, your Heart Will™ can serve as a manifesto for living to ground and guide you when you need it.
How to Create and Live Your Legacy: A Willow Workshop™
No matter what kind of life you live, how much money you have, or what you think of your accomplishments, consider that you
have a legacy. Inside a thoughtful and dynamic group process you will reflect on what you want your legacy to be and what
actions you can take now to create and live that legacy.
Remembering and Being Remembered: A Willow Workshop™
In Remembering and Being Remembered we’ll look at the who, what, how and why of remembering. Why do you
remember people who have died? How do you remember them and how are you impacted by either remembering
or not remembering? This workshop will also remind us that we each have an impact on the lives of others.
9 Things to Include in Your Departure Directions™: A Willow Workshop™
Completing your Departure Directions™ will give you peace of mind knowing your final wishes will reflect who you are and what matters
most to you while alleviating stress, chaos and worry for the people you leave behind. Articulating and writing your
Departure Directions™ will benefit you in the here and now. Understanding all that matters in the end, is a pathway to living and loving fully, now.
Greening Your Death and Aligning Your Values: A Willow Workshop™
Greening Your Death and Aligning Your Values
Many of us do our best to live mindfully and walk lightly on our planet. Yet, we tend to give little consideration to the environmental
impact of what happens to us after we die. Partly, this is because we live in a culture fraught with death denial. Typically, when
someone dies, a funeral provider is called to remove the person and arrange for either burial or cremation. Most people don’t take the
time to understand the array of options within these two choices, or what alternatives are available in addition to these two choices.
The good news is, many steps can be taken to green your death no matter where you live, and new options for greening your death are growing.
5 Steps for Successful End-of-Life Planning Conversations: A Willow Workshop™
Have you ever started to talk about some aspect of end-of-life planning with someone and got shut down? Or maybe you’ve been
wanting to talk about end-of-life planning but you’re lost about how to even broach the topic. You have ideas in your mind about
how your people are going to react, and it’s just too uncomfortable to go there. Many of us understand the importance of preparing for
your someday, one-day, inevitable death while you’re still healthy enough to do that. But talking about death in a death-phobic and
death-denying culture can be a challenge. Whether you’re thinking about your own end-of-life planning or you want to facilitate plans
for someone else, it really helps to talk about it first!
7 Tools Workbook 8-Part Series: A Willow Workshop™
The inevitability of death is the one thing in life we’re certain about, yet most people would do anything to avoid talking or even thinking about it. It’s certain your future will include death, after-death care (including how you’ll be laid to rest), and the settling of your estate, regardless of its size. It’s possible that your future will include disability, serious illness, sudden death, a funeral or ceremony of some kind and the gifting or distribution of any financial assets and precious possessions.
What’s holding you back from being more prepared? Devoting time and energy to consider and plan ahead for your future —including your inevitable death—will change how you die and how you live, right here, right now, and for the rest of your life.
Departure Directions - Full-day Workshop: A Willow Workshop™
Departure DirectionsTM is Willow’s term for your written guidelines—determined by your values, beliefs and priorities—for how you wish to be cared for and remembered after you die. Completing your Departure Directions will give you peace of mind knowing your final wishes will reflect who you are and what matters most to you while alleviating stress, chaos and worry for the people you leave behind. Consider that every act of how you are cared for after you die is an opportunity for meaningful rituals that can build, nourish and heal individuals and communities.
Articulating and writing your Departure Directions™ will also benefit you in the here and now. Understanding all that matters in the end, is a pathway to living and loving fully, now.