Sara E. Stewart
As people go from home health care, to nursing homes to hospice, advanced care planning documentation completions increase. In 2020, Advanced Directive completions among black patients increased by 41 percent, yet this number is still less than non-persons of color. My speaking addresses this disparity and works to align end-of-life care preferences and documentation for all people.…
4 Winds / 5 Elements Counseling and Healing Arts, LLC
When all the pieces of life feel scattered, I empower my clients to find meaning and hope, restoring a sense of balance to their lives. I am passionate about helping clients to navigate their way through the transitions life hands us, and the changes that often result in a wide range of emotions that accompany these experiences.…
Kerry Arquette
Kerry Arquette is an experienced speaker well known for her ability to craft talks for a wide range of audiences. She has been featured at the National Mensa Convention, on national podcasts, and for students in high school through university. Kerry, a certified death doula, holds a M.S. in Criminology. She looks for opportunities to talk about the work of end-of-life midwives, and a process of systematically preparing for death emotionally, spiritually, and physically.…
Maggie Gannon
Maggie Gannon is a board certified Adult Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist with over 29 years experience working with head and neck cancer patients. She has used her combined decades of professional experience to create a specific end-of-life planning technology to help change the way the world thinks about death, increasing the quality of life for any one sick or healthy as they navigate life’s final chapter.…
Janet Reichart, LCSW
End-of-Life Doula
My End of Life Doula work empowers clients and their families to actively participate in the end of life process in ways that bring deeper meaning and engagement during this sacred transition.
For as long as I can remember, I have been passionate about holding space for people who are experiencing the sacred transition at end of life, whether they are dying, or they are caring for a loved one who is dying.…
Soul Centered
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.…
Vanessa Johnston
End-of-Life Doula, Co-Founder and Second Vice-President, Membership
My mission is to empower those who are dying to experience their final milestone with dignity and grace. I seek to provide support for people with terminal diagnoses and their loved ones. I am a compassionate companion in sacred service to honor the final chapter in others’ stories.
My Living Obituary
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.…
Valerie Nicholas
End-of-Life Doula, CEOLC First Vice-President & Co-Founder
My passion is to help create unique, one-of-a kind tributes for those who wish to leave a legacy of their personal values, beliefs, blessings, and advice to future generations. My specialty is Living Celebration of Life Memorials, also known as Living Funerals, Living Wakes… The Celebration of a Lifetime. I look forward to hearing your life story!
Veronica Wiley
I have over five years’ experience leading classes and lectures on mindfulness, meditation, and yoga philosophy as a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider. My final presentation for business school can be found on their YouTube channel, in which I introduce my doula practice Outside Rites, Ltd. and Corpse Pose Yoga.
Sara Aumann
I offer free 30-45 minute presentations to hospice and hospital staff on what an end of life doula is and can provide in partnership with the medical team.
I am trained by the International End of Life Doula Association. I’m certified Reiki II and have completed several other trainings for my own personal development that round out my offerings….studying loving kindness meditation with monks, Landmark Worldwide curriculum for living, mediumship and empowered wisdom, outlaw yoga, essential oils, oracle and tarot cards and crystal use.…
Kerry Arquette
End-of-Life Midwife, CEOLC Secretary and Co-Founder
My mission is to be a strong and steady presence for the dying and their families. If you or a loved one is in the active dying process and seeking support, contact me. I will do all I can to help in the months, weeks, days, and hours that lead up to the event.
Marisa Rose Verrier
Companion-Animal End-of-Life Doula, CEOLC Treasurer and Co-Founder
Pets are irreplaceable members of our family, and as such, their death can hurt very deeply. As a Companion-Animal End-of-Life Doula, I provide compassionate, in-home care and hospice support for senior pets, as well as those with chronic or terminal illness, and holistic and spiritual support for their human family. My passion is being of service to others. Being present with a family and their dying pet is a benevolent and humbling experience. It is my honor to hold space for animals as they journey towards the rainbow bridge.
Soul Based Healers
Finding balance in a world full of noise.
Dan Curran, Healing Touch Certified Practitioner and Reiki Master, offers the following services:
- Healing Touch
- Reiki
- Craniosacral Therapy
- Soul Regression
- Shamanic Practices
- Energy Healing
Chun Hwa LLC
The mission of Chun Hwa LLC, translation – One with Heaven, is to offer Transition Care Planning services to clarify, organize and communicate through an end-of-life plan, ensuring that one’s last wishes will be carried out and honored. This begins with Advance Care Planning.
Crispin Sargent, founder of Chun Hwa LLC in 2016, is a certified advanced care planner and can assist with preparing medical directives and facilitating the conversation with named agents to ensure that instructions are met.…
Veronica Wiley
End-of-Life Doula, Ecotherapy Facilitator, Yoga Instructor (E-RYT & YACEP)
Yoga and nature therapy facilitation for end-of-Life Doula services, 1:1 coaching, workshops, & retreats
Vanessa Johnston
Vanessa Johnston has delivered many successful presentations for all types of organizations, from small church groups to the statewide Colorado Guardianship Association. As an End-of-Life Doula, her passion lies in describing the many facets of the modern Death-Positive Movement. This new approach to death and dying attempts to demystify the process that is the natural final milestone for everyone.…
Cindy Kaufman
Cindy Kaufman offers audiences her wide range of skills as an educator, speaker, and international best-selling author of “The Mortal’s Guide to Dying Well – Practical Wisdom From an End of Life Doula.” Cindy’s end-of-life experiences working directly with patients and families spans more than 25 years, giving her a breadth and depth of knowledge that allows her to create presentations, seminars, webinars, and courses befitting audiences of any size or variety.…
Sara E. Stewart
End-of-Life Doula, Yoga Teacher, Meditation Guide & Officiant
It is simple… what do you do to live YOUR best life? Regardless of any condition or diagnoses, are you living the fullness of your true authentic self? It is a remarkably interesting dichotomy to be happy and/or content, until the very last breath.
Cindy Kaufman
End-of-Life Doula, CEOLC President and Co-Founder
My mission is to be a compassionate companion on life’s final journey. With a calm and loving presence, I advocate for the dying person and his/her personal choices about End-of-Life decisions and care, as well as providing much-needed support for the loved ones. I hope to inspire others to see death as a natural transition with its own innate gifts and beauty, rather than something to be feared and avoided.
Sara Aumann
End of Life Doula & Intuitive Energy Worker
Sara Aumann is an INELDA End of Life Doula, intuitive energy healer and podcaster here to help you usher in real, transformed healing.
Her personal story is one of loss and resilience; in 2016, she experienced multiple losses so great it would have brought anyone to their knees, but through consistent inner work, she was able to alchemize loss into evolution. Her passion is to support people in their 20 – 30’s and their families through loss and grief.
