Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative

Kelsi Tesone Mathews

Phone: 303-997-6667Email: vasb@vazrzbevnzfreivprf.pbzWebsite: In MemoriamCEOLC Member Profile: In Memoriam

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Home Funerals, Memorial Services, Speakers Bureau, Urns and/or Caskets

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Home Funerals, Memorial Services, Speakers Bureau, Urns and/or Caskets

Chun Hwa LLC

Contact Name: Crispin Sargent

Phone: (303) 588-6350Email: pevfcva@puhaujnraretl.pbzWebsite: ChunHwaEnergy.com

Categories: Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Client Advocacy, Communication Mediation, Other Therapies, Yoga, Grief

Categories of Service Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Client Advocacy, Communication Mediation, Other Therapies, Yoga, Grief

Maggie Gannon

Phone: 720-441-2941Email: Znttvr@ZlYvivatBovghnel.pbzWebsite: MyLivingObituaryCEOLC Member Profile: My Living Obituary

Categories: Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Legacy Projects, LGBTQIA+ Ally/Advocate, Life Review, Online/Multimedia End-of-Life Services, Other Therapies, Speakers Bureau

Categories of Service Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Legacy Projects, LGBTQIA+ Ally/Advocate, Life Review, Online/Multimedia End-of-Life Services, Other Therapies, Speakers Bureau

Skipton Law, LLC

Contact Name: Skipton Reynolds

Location: 2 Inverness Dr E, Suite 102 Englewood CO 80112 Phone: 720-440-2774Email: vasb@fxvcgbaynj.pbzWebsite: Skipton Law, LLC

Categories: Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Client Advocacy, Communication Mediation, Legal End-of-Life Services

Categories of Service Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Client Advocacy, Communication Mediation, Legal End-of-Life Services

Details

We specialize in Estate Planning & Elder Law. We are a member of Lawyers with Purpose. A national organization for attorneys practicing in estate planning, elder law, Medicaid planning, asset protection & Special Needs planning.

Why I Do What I Do

I believe that Estate Planning is here to give you control over who is in charge of taking care of you and control over how you take care of your family after you are gone. Without proper planning you can lose control and your family will not be able to take care of you as easily, or you will not leave your estate for the benefit of your family according to your wishes.

I had an experience in my own family where during a crisis, we lost control over where my grandmother was going to receive care. This caused my grandparents in their last years to be separated by a long distance after more than 60 years of marriage. I believe that my grandparents have drawn me into the field of estate planning and elder law to affect the lives of my clients so that they can have a different experience at the end of their lives than my grandparents did.

I place a special emphasis on protecting the assets of aging loved ones and educating families about complicated laws and the best options available to them. I am passionate about helping others preserve their money, avoid probate, and achieve lifetime estate planning goals.

I started my post-law school career working for a large financial company helping financial planners with advanced estate planning and tax planning. I utilize this financial services experience to bring a different perspective to my estate planning and elder law clients. My number one priority is to educate and empower clients to make the best decision for them and their family; there is no one way to do things. I strive to give clients options and let them choose which direction they want to go.

I like to say, “If you don’t ask yourself the right questions, you never get the right answer for you and your family.”

Skip was born and raised Aurora, Colorado, graduating from Smoky Hill High School. He graduated from the University of Kansas after being on the swimming team there for four years. Skip has an MBA and his law degree from the University of Wyoming. Skip is married to Erin and they have two vibrant young boys Braden and Kade.

Seven Stones – A Botanical Gardens Cemetery

Director of Customer CareContact Name: Rebecca Holm

Location: 9635 North Rampart Range Road LIttleton Colorado 80125 Phone: 303-717-7117Email: vasb@qvfpbirefrirafgbarf.pbzWebsite: Discover Seven Stones

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Funerals, Green Burial

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Funerals, Green Burial

Details

THE SEVEN STONES DIFFERENCE

New ideas. New options. New technology. To an industry that is traditional and slow to change, we bring creativity, innovative thinking, state-of-the-art facilities, extraordinary design and unique options. That’s the Seven Stones Difference.

We invite you to visit and learn more about this unique place. Come tour our grounds and let us share with you our vision for a cemetery unlike any other. Discover our modern choices and wide variety of burial options, including green burials. Hear how we’re integrating technology to help create more meaningful memorials, and learn how we’re creating a place that will stand the test of time.

Artistic Memorials: Using glass, metal and stone in new ways, we’re creating burial and cremation memorials that integrate light, form and the natural environment.
Modern Technology: With QR codes and videos, we bring a new, multidimensional experience to visiting the memorials of family and friends.
Green Burial: Seven Stones is consistently exploring the newest means of environmentally friendly burial and cremation options.
Pet Burial: Our Forever Friends program recognizes that the pets in our lives are like family and allows you to honor them accordingly.
Our People: We’re friendly, relaxed and here to help with any aspect of end-of-life planning or immediate needs, thanks to our broad experience with grief counseling, funeral planning and cremation and burial. If we can’t provide the service you need, we’ll help you find someone who can among our trusted partners.

VISION

We are not drab, dark, somber and scary. We are not rows of headstones. We are not backhoes and neglected landscaping. We are light. And nature. We are a gathering place. And an entertainment venue. We are family reunions. And a setting for stories told of loved ones. Of fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers. We are a chance to reacquaint yourself with friends and distant family. We are roses and poppies. Cottonwoods and creeks. Sculptures and waterfalls. We are where people remember, and pay honor, in a place where they feel good just being. We are inviting paths and welcoming people. We are a place that makes smiles easier to come by at a time when they’re the hardest to come by. We help to heal. And allow you to remember. We are beauty and nature. We are a slice of Colorado in the shadow of the mountains. We are the promise of a well-kept place for generations to come. We are Seven Stones.

Rocky Mountain Life-Cycle Celebrants

Celebrant Foundation & InstituteContact Name: Ben Martin

Location: Denver Colorado United StatesEmail: Ora@rffragvnyprerzbavrf.pbzWebsite: RockyMountainCelebrant.com

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Ceremonies/Rituals

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Ceremonies/Rituals

Colorado Burial Preserve & Cremation Garden

Contact Name: Emily Miller

Location: 7997 CO-67 PO Box 667 Florence Colorado 81226 Phone: 719-280-2614Email: rzvyl@pbybenqbohevnycerfreir.pbzWebsite: Colorado Burial Preserve

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Green Burial

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Green Burial

Details

Colorado Burial Preserve & Cremation Garden in Florence is the first cemetery in the state dedicated to conservation. Instead of the manicured sod and tight rows at a conventional cemetery, the Preserve is 65 acres of natural prairie-pinyon habitat. After a burial, the soil is amended and seeded with adapted native perennials to help combat invasive weeds. This proactive treatment improves the quality of forage and habitat for countless native and migratory birds, animals and pollinator insects. Families of the deceased find comfort knowing that the body can return to the earth in the natural way, and new life is enriched throughout our ecosystem as a result.

Colorado Burial Preserve, Ltd. was founded in 2020 in response to growing demand in the community for a wild final resting place. Development and Green Burial Council certification involved an Environmental Impact Analysis to thoroughly evaluate the baseline ecological conditions at the Preserve. As a certified Natural Burial Grounds, CBP permits only unembalmed remains to be buried in biodegradable caskets or shrouds. The burial gardens, which consist of both full body and cremation graves, are designed with extra-large spaces. This way, funeral services need not destroy the existing native vegetation or other unique features of the landscape. Options for memorial markers blend with the natural environment.

The first six burial gardens are available now for prearrangement and immediate need. Private tours of the Preserve are now available by appointment, and development continues on hiking trails, an outdoor service chapel, and a sustainably-built, off-grid restroom facility. When finished, the Preserve will be a public resource for nature enrichment, promoting awareness of our interconnected ecosystem, as well as a peaceful and beautiful location to establish the legacy of a family cemetery plot.

CBP Owner and founder Emily B. Miller, CMSP, is a licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer. She stepped away from a career in conventional funeral home management to become a leader in conservation burial in Colorado. Inspired by this history in funeral service, Emily envisions the Preserve as a catalyst for reclaiming burial rituals and climate-conscious end-of-life education.

Emily Nelson

Location: Be a Tree Cremation 2970 W Severn Pl Denver Colorado 80204 Phone: 720-782-2782Email: Pner@OrNGerrPerzngvba.pbzWebsite: BeATree.LifeCEOLC Member Profile: Be a Tree Cremation

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Memorial Services, Speakers Bureau, Water Cremation

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Memorial Services, Speakers Bureau, Water Cremation

Karen van Vuuren

Phone: 720-515-2344Email: vasb@guranghenyshareny.pbzWebsite: TheNaturalFuneral.comCEOLC Member Profile: The Natural Funeral

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Reverant Body Care, Speakers Bureau, Urns and/or Caskets, Water Cremation

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Reverant Body Care, Speakers Bureau, Urns and/or Caskets, Water Cremation

Jamie Sarche

Phone: 303-322-7764Email: wnzvr@sryqznazbeghnel.pbzWebsite: FeldmanMortuary.comCEOLC Member Profile: Feldman Mortuary

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Education/Training, Funerals, Living Funerals, Memorial Services, Water Cremation

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Education/Training, Funerals, Living Funerals, Memorial Services, Water Cremation

In Memoriam

Contact Name: Kelsi Tesone Mathews

Location: 7290 W 119th Place Broomfield Colorado 80020 Phone: 303-997-6667Email: Vasb@vazrzbevnzfreivprf.pbzWebsite: In Memoriam

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Home Funerals, Memorial Services, Urns and/or Caskets

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Home Funerals, Memorial Services, Urns and/or Caskets

Grief Recovery with Laurie

Contact Name: Laurie Freeman

Location: 5401 South Prince St #105 Littleton Colorado 80120 Phone: 720-841-4137Email: ynhevr@tevrserpbireljvguynhevr.pbzWebsite: GriefRecoverywithLaurie.com

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Grief and Bereavement Support, Suicide Loss Survivor Support, Support for Caregivers

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Grief and Bereavement Support, Suicide Loss Survivor Support, Support for Caregivers

Dianna Vagianos Armentrout

Email: qvnaan@qvnaanintvnabf.pbzWebsite: Labyrinth of the Heart Center, LLCCEOLC Member Profile: Dianna Vagianos Armentrout

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Client Advocacy, Education/Training, Grief and Bereavement Support, Pregnancy/Infant Loss Support, Speakers Bureau, Spiritual Guidance

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Client Advocacy, Education/Training, Grief and Bereavement Support, Pregnancy/Infant Loss Support, Speakers Bureau, Spiritual Guidance

Be a Tree Cremation

Contact Name: Emily Nelson

Location: 2970 W Severn Pl Denver Colorado 80204 United StatesPhone: 720-782-2782Email: Pner@OrNGerrPerzngvba.pbzWebsite: BeATree.Life

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Memorial Services, Memorials, Speakers Bureau, Water Cremation

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Memorial Services, Memorials, Speakers Bureau, Water Cremation

Skipton Reynolds

Phone: 720-440-2774Email: vasb@fxvcgbaynj.pbzWebsite: skiptonlaw.comCEOLC Member Profile: Skipton Law LLC

Categories: Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Client Advocacy, Communication Mediation, Legal End-of-Life Services, Speakers Bureau

Categories of Service Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Client Advocacy, Communication Mediation, Legal End-of-Life Services, Speakers Bureau

Map Your Care: Illness & Grief Counseling, LLC

Contact Name: Bonnie Herrmann, LCSW

Location: Front range (in person), Colorado (virtual) Colorado Phone: 720-414-0320Email: obaavr@znclbhepnerpbhafryvat.pbzWebsite: Website

Categories: Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Counseling (Licensed), Education/Training, Grief and Bereavement Support, Legacy Projects, LGBTQIA+ Ally/Advocate, Life Review, MAiD Support, Speakers Bureau, Support for Caregivers, VSED Support

Categories of Service Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Counseling (Licensed), Education/Training, Grief and Bereavement Support, Legacy Projects, LGBTQIA+ Ally/Advocate, Life Review, MAiD Support, Speakers Bureau, Support for Caregivers, VSED Support

Details

Map Your Care: Illness & Grief Counseling offers a full range of counseling services to help you soften your fears and live your best life. From the first rumbling of thoughts about your health through the end of your life and beyond, I can help you map out what’s important to you as you move through life and help provide support to your family along the way.

Through my private practice, I provide licensed counseling services to individuals and families. I offer in-home counseling in the Denver Metro/Front Range for those who are have mobility challenges and offer virtual counseling for Colorado residents. I focus on illness, caregiving, end of life and grief and pull from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Narrative Therapy, nature therapy and mindfulness-based interventions. Drawing on 10 years of experience as a clinical social worker in oncology, hospice, palliative care and in a care facility setting, I can help you understand your options as you navigate an illness or end of life in the context of your individual needs and resources.

Through counseling I can help you:
-Explore long seeded fears around illness and dying
-Improve your communication with loved ones and your healthcare team
-Develop coping strategies for managing chronic pain and chronic illness
-Document your health care wishes and feel confident in advocating for them
-Create personal and meaningful legacy work to celebrate your life
-Understand your end of life options, including Medical Aid in Dying and final disposition
-Continue to move through life while honoring your grief
-Draw from the cycles of nature to hold space for both joy and sorrow
-Process your cancer journey and explore survivorship struggles, like fear of recurrence
-Develop coping strategies to sustain you and bring meaning to your caregiving experience

Degrees & Certifications:
-Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) 2016
-Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) 2013
-Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) 2011
-Advanced Clinical Hospice & Palliative Social Worker (ACHP-SW) 2020

I am currently out of network with all insurance policies but will be accepting Medicare soon. I aim to make my services available to a wide audience and am happy to offer sliding scale rates.

My Living Obituary

Contact Name: Maggie Gannon

Business Phone: 720-441-2941Email: Znttvr@ZlYvivatBovghnel.pbzWebsite: MyLivingObituaryWebsite: MyLivingObituary About UsWebsite: For Palliative Care & Hospice

Categories: Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Legacy Projects, LGBTQIA+ Ally/Advocate, Life Review, Online/Multimedia End-of-Life Services, Other Therapies, Speakers Bureau

Details

About Us

We are on a mission to improve the quality of all our lives by changing the way the world thinks about death.

Our story begins in 2020 after a sudden cancer diagnosis. Even though we had always acknowledged death is part of life, we were not prepared for its abrupt possibility of it in our own. We quickly realized a last will & testament, important parts of end-of-life planning, do not complete a legacy. There is so much more we could do to memorialize our extraordinary lives. This sounds like an easy problem to solve, but how?

With no direct solution available we were inspired into action & formed a compassionate team of two software engineers, a sales executive, and an advanced practice nurse. Together, we developed an affordable end-of-life planning technology based in clinical research, to help people sick or healthy capture and preserve their legacy through storytelling, gaining appreciation and acceptance of who they are and the life they are living.

As founders with our own history of loss and death, we consider it a privilege to help everyone plan for a good death through legacy building. That’s why we founded MyLivingObituary.com- to improve the quality of all our lives by helping people take control of life’s final act. This way extraordinary and meaningful lives will not fade away but will live on in the hearts and minds of everyone who is loved.

Helping You Help Other’s Prepare For a Good Death

Digital Legacy Therapy for Advance Care Planning For Palliative Care & Hospice
- Our platform is utilized as an end-of-life advance care planning tool based in clinical research for Palliative Care, Hospice & Death Doulas. The platform integrates Legacy/Dignity Therapy into the palliative care timeline as a drug free intervention that positively influences quality of life, patient and family experience. My Living Obituary – Palliative Care and Hospice
Digital Legacy Resource for Funeral Pre-Planning Resource
- We assist pre-planners help their clients plan for a good death through legacy building, with a self-written obituary and ethical will living legacy letters. On our platform users perform a life review and create a permanent document in the form of a self-written obituary and living legacy letters to share with their family and friends now and after death.
Digital Legacy Planning for Senior Living Communities & Estate Attorneys
- Our platform assists senior living communities proactively increase quality of life of its residents with end-of-life legacy planning by helping plan for a good death, while improving quality of care at end of life.

4 Winds / 5 Elements Counseling and Healing Arts, LLC

Contact Name: Janet Reichart, LCSW

Location: 2201 Kipling Street, Suite 204 Lakewood Colorado 80215 Business Phone: 720-520-2762Email: w.ervpunegypfj@4jvaqf5ryrzragf.pbzWebsite: 4 Winds / 5 Elements Counseling & Healing Arts

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Companioning for Dying Person, Counseling (Licensed), Directories, EMDR (Licensed Counselor), Grief and Bereavement Support, Reiki/Energy Work, Support for Caregivers, Support/Advocacy, Therapies

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Companioning for Dying Person, Counseling (Licensed), Directories, EMDR (Licensed Counselor), Grief and Bereavement Support, Reiki/Energy Work, Support for Caregivers, Support/Advocacy, Therapies

Labyrinth of the Heart Center, LLC

Contact Name: Dianna Vagianos Armentrout

Location: P.O. Box 621076 Littleton Colorado 80127 United StatesEmail: qvnaan@qvnaanintvnabf.pbzWebsite: Website and Blog

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Client Advocacy, Education/Training, Grief and Bereavement Support, Pregnancy/Infant Loss Support, Spiritual Guidance

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Client Advocacy, Education/Training, Grief and Bereavement Support, Pregnancy/Infant Loss Support, Spiritual Guidance

Details

The Labyrinth of the Heart Center, LLC was created to support families going through pregnancy and infant loss and grief in order to honor our dead and our journeys with them in unity and love. Classes are offered to support families by learning appropriate communication skills around death, using ritual and creative arts for healing, and strengthening networks and communities. Writing classes are offered to individuals who are seeking a modality to express grief and honor loved ones. Motherhood includes all of our losses at the Center. We honor each other through compassion, and work with the ancestors who have also lost pregnancies and babies from the beginning of humanity. All are welcome at our table.

Dianna’s pregnancy with her daughter, Mary Rose, who died an hour after birth of trisomy 18, changed her life completely. Dianna wishes to change the cultural fear of death and social awkwardness around the bereaved by educating others to be present and open to the natural process of death. Miscarriage rates and infant death rates are high in our country, yet little support is available to families over the years.

She has written a poetry collection and novel and is in the process of seeking publication for both manuscripts. Find her poems, short fiction and essays online and on her YouTube channel.

My baby is dead. For five months of my pregnancy I knew that my daughter, Mary Rose, would die, though I did not know when she would die. What surprises me most is that I am alive. I am alive after the heartache of knowing about her condition, alive after holding her still body in my arms moments after her birth. Afterpains came with empty arms, as did my baby’s milk. Those months of pregnancy with the knowledge that our baby had trisomy 18 felt like a million years of sadness. . . During my pregnancy I did not find much to comfort me. I am writing the book that I wish I could have read when I was pregnant with my daughter. . .
I see life as spiritual path. I can only make sense of Mary Rose’s life if I look at it from a distance. I put myself in the context of my grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Women have been burying their children since the beginning of time. I am one woman who has walked this searing path of pain. Yet somewhere inside our hearts we have the strength to carry on, not to move on, as some would want us to do. We can continue our lives taking our babies with us. Our arms are empty, but our hearts are full. The love we have for our children, living or dead, grows. I do not believe in a final good-bye.
Excerpt from Walking the Labyrinth of My Heart: A Journey of Pregnancy, Grief and Newborn Death ©2016 White Flowers Press

Dianna is a writer, teacher, workshop facilitator and finder of joy. Join her on a journey of joyous grief.

Classes

Walking Through Pregnancy and Infant Loss – https://www.diannavagianos.com/infant-pregnancy-loss

Holding our Loved Ones who Died during the Holiday Season – https://www.diannavagianos.com/bookings-checkout/holiday-retreat-and-writing-class

Joyous Grief: Finding Beauty and Hope in a Broken World – https://www.diannavagianos.com/bookings-checkout/joyous-grief-1

The Mothership: Navigating the Complexities of Motherhood through Writing – https://www.diannavagianos.com/bookings-checkout/the-mothership-1

Writing in the Garden: Meditations on the Natural World – https://www.diannavagianos.com/bookings-checkout/writing-in-the-garden-1

Consulting

Grief – https://www.diannavagianos.com/product-page/grief-consulting

Intuitive – https://www.diannavagianos.com/product-page/90-min-intuitive-consulting

Laura Walker, Writer

Location: Front Range Boulder County Broomfield Colorado 80023 United StatesPhone: ‪(404) 919-8037‬Email: ynhen@ynhenjnyxrejevgre.pbzWebsite: LauraWalkerWriter.com

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Online/Multimedia End-of-Life Services

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Online/Multimedia End-of-Life Services

Dear Departures

Contact Name: Tawnya Musser, Founder

Location: Serving the Front Range PO Box 472462 Aurora CO 80047 Business Phone: 719-430-5272Email: gnjaln@qrneqrcnegherf.pbzWebsite: DearDepartures.com

Categories: Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Client Advocacy, Companioning for Dying Person, Education/Training, Funerals, Grief and Bereavement Support, Home Funerals, LGBTQIA+ Ally/Advocate, Living Funerals, Memorial Services, Officiant/Minister, Pregnancy/Infant Loss Support

Categories of Service Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Client Advocacy, Companioning for Dying Person, Education/Training, Funerals, Grief and Bereavement Support, Home Funerals, LGBTQIA+ Ally/Advocate, Living Funerals, Memorial Services, Officiant/Minister, Pregnancy/Infant Loss Support

Details

Tawnya is a Home Funeral Guide, Life-Cycle Celebrant & Grief Companion. She offers home funeral education and support, custom ceremonies across the life-cycle with an emphasis in death and dying, and bereavement support.

Home funerals are when the bereaved choose to tend to the decedent themselves and/or hold a home vigil/viewing/wake with the decedent in the privacy of their own home or space. Home funerals are legal in all fifty states. See Dear Departures’ FAQ page for more information.

As a Life-Cycle Celebrant specializing in funerals, memorials, celebrations-of-life, graveside services, ash-scatterings, pregnancy and infant loss ceremonies, memorial dedications, virtual ceremonies, and more, Tawnya is strongly suited to tell authentic stories.

Living funerals are events where, when someone is nearing the end-of-life, they become the guest of honor at their own exit-party! More and more people are coming around the idea that, rather than have everyone sit around and tell stories about how great you were after you’re gone, it’s a much richer experience to be a part of that conversation while you’re still alive!

She strives to convey legacies with candor, tact, and grace.

Living Funerals are also an opportunity for the dying person to share with others what an impact those people have made on their life.

She offers ceremonies for those whose relationship with the dead was complicated, especially when trauma is a part the survivors’ past with the dead. It is critical to acknowledge the gravity of the situation in a way that gives voice to the survivors’ pain, by staying true to the narrative. Humans are fallible, after all.

“Do-over” memorials are for those who either never had a meaningful memorial for a loved one at all, or, if the one they did have was unsatisfactory. Whether your loved one has been gone for a year, or a decade, it’s never too late to create a meaningful tribute. This process can be therapeutic, especially as it relates to our past culture around miscarriages and/or infant deaths that weren’t given the acknowledgment that they deserved.

Tawnya also offers guidance in eulogy writing, as well as in crafting your own obituary! Obituaries don’t have to be simple timelines of events. They can be fun, witty, reverent, and lush! One need not be dying to start writing an obituary. Getting a head start means that when the inevitable happens, (be it tomorrow or years from now,) the things that are important to YOU about your life’s story have been highlighted!

Additionally, she offers pet-honoring ceremonies before, during, or after a pet death.

She’s even crafted send-offs for non-living beloveds, like vehicles lost to accidents, and homes lost to fire.

The sky is the limit in how we acknowledge and honor our grief!

TESTIMONIALS

“The event was beautiful! Tawnya over delivered! I got numerous compliments from attendees. I felt her compassion and empathy from beginning to end. She had great attention to detail. All of this taken together will ensure that I recommend her to someone else.” -Janet C., Memorial Client

“Tawnya was very personable. Her expertise made the service extra special. I wouldn’t change a thing.” -Agaitha B. Memorial Client

EDUCATION & AFFILIATIONS

Life-Cycle Celebrant Certificate, Specializing in Funerals, Celebrant Foundation & Institute
Bereaved Sibling Support Group Facilitator
Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss Certificate (plus the advanced course), Institute of Birth Breath & Death
Sacred Passage Guide Certificate, Conscious Dying Institute
Board of Directors, National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)
National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA) Member
Denver Hospice Volunteer
Shifting Deathcare: Tool for a New Paradigm, Going With Grace
Trauma Informed Death Work, Narinder Bazen
Bachelors of Science in Human Services/Counseling & Mental Health, Metro State College of Denver

Soul Centered

Contact Name: Baruch and Ariela HaLevi

Location: 7581 East Academy Boulevard, Suite 209 Denver Colorado 80230 Phone: 720-930-4972Email: vasb@zlfbhypragrerq.betWebsite: Soul Centered

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Grief and Bereavement Support, Other Therapies, Spiritual Guidance

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Grief and Bereavement Support, Other Therapies, Spiritual Guidance

Details

MEANING. PURPOSE. HEALING. SPIRITUALITY.

We are a spiritual center for individuals seeking meaning, purpose, and healing in The Afternoon of Life (midlife and beyond).

We are Ariela and Baruch HaLevi, co-founders of Soul Centered, and a couple who is passionate about reimagining The Afternoon of Life (midlife and beyond).

Our mission is to empower our clients and community in consciously creating new goals, proactively designing new rules, and practically implementing new tools, as they discover their innate healing wisdom, live wholeheartedly, and unleash their soul in ways that are only possible during The Afternoon of Life.

Why we created Soul Centered

Soul Centered was created to provide a place for anyone seeking to consciously face the crossroads of midlife and courageously journey through the Afternoon of Life.

For over twenty years we dreamed of building a spiritual center where people could engage in self discovery and soul exploration, uncovering deeper meaning within their struggles, realize their true purpose in this life, and experience holistic healing through all of life’s traumas and tragedies.

This dream has been motivated by professional passions, as well as personal desires.

All of our life we have longed for a spiritual home based on universal truths, drawing upon all wisdom traditions, incorporating spiritual practice, informed by intellect, infused with holistic healing and filled by people seeking conscious community, desiring to support one another on their journey.

Although we built variations of this throughout our careers, and discovered pieces of this in places ranging from synagogues and churches to yoga studios and zen centers, from counseling and healing centers to new age communities across the world, we never fully realized what we were looking for…

So, we founded Soul Centered.

As The Healer (Ariela) and The Guide (Baruch), we utilize our signature programs and pathways, empowering you to:

Discover the possibilities within your struggles and potential within your shadows (Meaning)
Uncover your authentic self and realize your true purpose (Purpose)
Express your emotions as a pathway to liberate your body and live with inner freedom (Healing)
Wake up to your spirit, letting it guide you forward in your life (Spirituality)

Ariela is available to be your Healer if….

Pulling from the experience of her own midlife awakening, her powerful intuition, and utilizing her training in energy healing and soul retrieval guidance, Ariela will provide the healing you need so that you can embrace everything that the Afternoon of Life has to offer you

Midlife feels more like a crisis than an awakening and you need support navigating this new terrain
You long for a deeper connection to your body, to increase the capacity to feel, to love and accept yourself fully
You feel lonely and disempowered in your relationships, unable to find your true voice and worthiness
You want to discard old masks of identity, roles, titles, and the expectations of others.
You have experienced the heartache of a loss: loss of a loved one, loss of a relationship, loss of yourself
Illness and chronic issues have caused so much fear and frustration that your body feels like a burden and not a joy

Baruch is available to be your Guide if…

You are standing at one of life’s many crossroads, or as he calls them, “Life’s T’s” (Transitions, Tests, Trials, Traumas or Tragedies)…

Seeking a trusted guide to help you find your way forward through relationship struggles, midlife uncertainty, or professional emptiness
Grieving the death of a loved one, looking for a companion to stand by your side, support and empower you
Searching for spiritual direction in your life, and a deeper connection to your soul
Longing to discover deeper meaning at your crossroads, and realize a greater purpose for your life
Ready to transform the Afternoon of Life into the most important, impactful, and inspirational time of your life

Combining his unique training and experience as a Rabbi, Grief Counselor, Logotherapist, Spiritual Director, and Enneagram Coach, Baruch will guide you through your crossroads, empower you to transcend your loss, and inspire you in discovering deeper meaning, and greater purpose, in your Afternoon of Life.

Programs and Groups:

Carry The Fire with Baruch and Ariela HaLevi

This program offers you a holistic healing pathway (body, mind, emotions & spirit) on your journey through grief at any point after the death of a loved one.

Drawing upon ancient wisdom traditions, universal spiritual practices, and modern therapeutic insights and tools, you will discover meaning and purpose within your loss and learn how to transform your darkness into light.

Your Sacred Body with Ariela HaLevi

This program offers you a new, unique way to maximize your self-healing capacity, manifesting abilities, intuition, and the spiritual insight needed for the Afternoon of Life.
And, most of all, this program will help you love the skin you’re in — “imperfections” and all.

You will finally feel healed and whole and in partnership with your body, by using the missing ingredients in connection.

Choose Your Own Way with Baruch HaLevi

This program offers you proven wisdom, sound strategies and practical tools to navigate the Crisis Crossroads, or one of Life’s T’s: transitions, tests, trials, traumas or tragedies, with more clarity, deeper meaning and greater purpose.

No matter what you are facing, enduring or seeking, there is a way forward. It begins when you take back your power, consciously choose your path, and courageously step into the unknown. This program will support you, empower you and guide you as you learn to Choose Your Own Way!

Your Soul Choice – A Small Group Experience with Baruch HaLevi

The Power To Choose, The Pathway To Freedom

Your Soul Choice: The Power To Choose, The Pathway To Freedom is a program about waking up in the Afternoon of Life, returning to our true self, reclaiming our authentic voice, and owning our divine power as we stop reacting to our circumstances and start responding to our life .

Synthesizing Kabbalah and the purpose of choice, Logotherapy and the power of choice, and the Enneagram and the pathway of choice, Your Soul Choice will empower you to discover deeper meaning, live with greater purpose, and experience ultimate freedom in your life through the power of choice. This is Your Soul Choice.

Feldman Mortuary

Director of Pre-PlanningContact Name: Jamie Sarche

Location: 1673 York Denver Colorado 80206 Location: Colorado Phone: 303-322-7764Email: wnzvr@sryqznazbeghnel.pbzWebsite: Feldman Mortuary

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Education/Training, Living Funerals, Memorial Services, Water Cremation

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Education/Training, Living Funerals, Memorial Services, Water Cremation

Tawnya Musser

Phone: 719-430-5272Email: gnjaln@qrneqrcnegherf.pbzWebsite: DearDepartures.comCEOLC Member Profile: Dear Departures

Categories: Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Companioning for Dying Person, Education/Training, Funerals, Grief and Bereavement Support, Home Funerals, LGBTQIA+ Ally/Advocate, Living Funerals, Memorial Services, Officiant/Minister, Pregnancy/Infant Loss Support

Categories of Service Advance Care Planning, Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Companioning for Dying Person, Education/Training, Funerals, Grief and Bereavement Support, Home Funerals, LGBTQIA+ Ally/Advocate, Living Funerals, Memorial Services, Officiant/Minister, Pregnancy/Infant Loss Support

HeartLight Center

Contact Name: Jenn Flaum, LCSW MBA

Location: 11150 E Dartmouth Ave Aurora Colorado 80014 Phone: 720-748-9908Email: vasb@urnegyvtugpragre.betWebsite: HeartLight Center

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Grief and Bereavement Support

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Grief and Bereavement Support