We can help you:

• view your goals and circumstances through gentle objectivity.

• fast-track solutions.

• offer guidance and resources to act.

For Families, Friend Groups and the Workplace, we offer education and workshops to help you advance your goals wherever you are in pre-planning for end-of-life.

Whether you’ve already squared away a few elements or aren’t sure where to begin, we offer guidance and accountability so you can create a comprehensive end-of-life plan. Clear goals and wishes are the cornerstone of constructive conversation with you r Estate Lawyer, Doctors and Loved Ones. Areas covered may span:

• Important Documents

• Healthcare

• Legal

• Financial

• Your People and unfinished relationship business

• Your Home & Belongings

• Non-medical care of body and soul for your final months and days

• Post-death wishes

• Funeral / Life Celebration

• Creating a Legacy for Your Life

• Life Review: Making meaning of your Life

• Guidance for those you leave behind

Most people express the strong preference to die at home. Myriad obstacles can put this goal at risk. To name a few:

• patient/family being uneducated or unaware of a terminal condition

• patient/family being uneducated/unaware of repeated futile attempts to treat/resuscitate in a hospital

• waiting for your Physician to bring up end of life planning

• not enough capable caregivers at home

• misconceptions about hospice and palliative care

We will do our damndest to help you exit this life more on your own terms than not.

At any stage of life a sudden accident or illness could mean we are unable to speak for ourselves. Advance Care Planning will help you know:

• Who you trust to make decisions for you

• What your wishes and preferences are for prolonging life — or prolonging the dying process

• How to create an Advance Directive (aka Living Will), and identify your Health Care Agent (aka Proxy)

• How to communicate your wishes to your Health Care Agent and those who matter most.

Life Review is an opportunity to resolve hurt, derive meaning, and express love and gratitude.

We can help you capture your life’s stories or create legacy through tangible artifacts, recordings, letters or possessions to connect loved ones to the values that shaped your life.

• What and who has given your life meaning?

• How do you want to be remembered?

• What would give you and your cherished relationships peace, even joy when you’re gone?

Family dynamics can be tricky under the best circumstances. We can serve as your non-judgmental advocate who can help foster more constructive conversations, give loved ones a situation snapshot or facilitate needed conversations on your behalf.

It’s a lot to juggle your daily demands AND prep for that next critical appointment with the Doctor, Lawyer, Accountant, Real Estate Agent. We can help you:

• clarify your goals,

• document your agenda and questions

• offer resources, research and support

We offer tools and guidance so you can better speak to your people about what matters most for your life and your health care.

Should you want an Advocate at your side for a Family meeting or in your Doctor’s office, we can support you in person or remotely by phone.

Motivation is tough some days. Together we can tame that pile of mail, streamline your accounts to work for you, haggle with the cable company on speakerphone and have some fun in the process.

Perhaps your partner, child or friends aren’t in a position to be your Executor. You can trust us to:

• carry out your wishes as stated in your will or trust and side letters.

• communicate with clarity and love with those you leave behind;

• coordinate with your legal, financial and accounting representatives to wrap up affairs cost-effectively;

• fulfill all legal responsibilities as Executor.

If you are coming into extra cash — or leaving some behind for beneficiaries — investing in the stock market can be one way to build financial freedom and generational wealth over time.

If inflation is at 5% and you have extra cash you don’t need to touch (for at least two years) sitting in a checking, savings or low-interest CD earning, say, 1% interest, that cash is losing 4% of its value.

But what if your beneficiaries don’t know how to invest money?

We can coach them on fundamental principles, and help them tap into professional financial advisor services. Our role is that of a coach and “bridge” to:

• adopt a prudent and patient long-term investor mindset

• learn a few fundamental principles, e.g. compound interest and appreciation, diversification

• start a direct relationship with a reputable brokerage firm (e.g. Fidelity, Vanguard)

• coach them to open an account

• serve as a “translator” between the new investor and a certified financial advisor (or AI) at a brokerage firm that will guide them to set goals and allocate funds into diversified assets that support those goals.

Let’s live large right up until our final breath — or at least find peace and small joys each day.

• What are you putting off?

• What are you waiting for?

• What’s standing in the way?

Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed for anyone.

Planning, presence and practical support to create an environment and experience for your final days or honor your life according to your vision after you’re gone.

In combination with other services, we can offer caregivers a break, lend a hand with meal prep, laundry, shopping, cleaning and the yard.

We strive to be a healing presence and help relieve stress through:

• healing touch

• playfulness

• novelty

• listening

• movement and breath

• hugs

“Death cleaning is not sad” is the takeaway from Margareta Magnusson’s 2018 bestselling book, “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter.”

Döstädning is a Swedish term that means removing unnecessary things to make your home nice and orderly as we prepare to leave the planet.

At any point in life, you may wish to simplify and create more space. The principles of döstädning can help.

If working directly with us isn’t the best fit, we will do our best to point you to those who can in the vast and growing network of end-of-life community practitioners.