Holisitic,Dignified Care For End of Life
If you have been diagnosed with a life-limiting illness, you may be feeling: - shock -pain -fear -anxiety -rage -overwhelm -and/or grief. Parts of you may also be feeling relieved. These feelings are valid and natural. Vulnerability, emotional reactivity and heightened states of consciousness are to be expected. Now is the time to choose, discern and to vision your end of life choices. It is time to ask questions, get clear and advocate for how you would like to be held and honored for your life. Curating the sacred set and setting for your death is a reverent way to respect and honor your life. It also provides the gift of explicit clarity for your loved ones when you journey on.
Services
To Begin:
- Free Consultation
-Your Story
-Your vision
-Your Needs and Wants
-Flexibly, structured mapping of services
-Setting the Container
- All services will be customized and tailored to meet your choices
Soul Doula Services:
-Consultations and coordination support for Oregon Residents and out of state clients choosing and/or exploring the "Death With Dignity Act" (Medical Aid In Dying), Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, Hospice Enrollment or choosing to stop treatment
Preparations
Creative, practical planning and visioning
Research
Death Education
Natural Burial Education
Respite time for family
Legacy
Vigil
After Death Care (for you and your loved ones)
Family and Community Grief Ceremonies and Rituals
Healing Arts:
-Dreamwork
-Art
-Creative Vizualization
-Sound Healing, Music
-Breathwork
-Somatic Release, Movement Arts
-Meditation, Ritual, Ceremony
-Grief-Tending for individuals and groups
-Psilocybin Preparation and Integration Sessions (by donation)
About Me
Being present and companioning people at death has called me since I was a child. Across the years, I have learned and been impacted personally and in close proximity to people experiencing sudden death, suicide, infant death, miscarriage and those dying from life-limiting illnesses.
I pay attention to the cycles of the natural world and respect animism. Advocating for authentic choice through spaces of initiation, transition and transformation are where I serve best. I show up to these intimate and altered spaces with presence, compassion, emotional intelligence and spiritual maturity.
I listen deeply and stay attuned to the dynamics that surface that are beckoning attention and care during the end of life process. I know how empowering it is to be heard,respected and honored as a whole person in the midst of vulnerable situations.
I support clear and healthy boundaries. I hold dignity high. One of my current passions is after death care rituals. I have found these rituals to give space for spirit to leave the body and to offer healing and support to loved one's with their grief journeys.
My background is an eccectic rainbow of holistic education, Healings arts, movement and sound modalities. I am currently in the process of becoming a psilocybin facilitator to hold space for people carrying anxiety and fear around death, grief, and for ancestral healing and soul liberation. As I walk into my becoming as a facilitator, I am offering preparation and integration sessions to support folks in their work with psilocybin. These sessions are by donation. You may book a free consultation.
My background includes:
- Currently completing a psilocybin facilitator training
-Graduate of Soul Passages Soul Doula Training
- Community Grief Ceremony Assistant
- Volunteer with End Of Life Choices Oregon
- Waldorf Early Childhood lead teacher and assistant roles with ages 1-6 (indoor and outdoor home-based and school programs)
-"IntoWitchin" Nature-Based Earth Magick Summer Camp for Girls and Gender Expanded Youth ages 11-13
- Mother of Two
- Singer and song weaver of medicine songs to meet life, death and rebirth
- Lead Singer and Creatrix of StarryRootz (albums available at starryrootz.bandcamp.com)
-Ecstatic Dance and Nature Enthusiast
- Ritualist
- Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher
-Graduate of The Barbara Brennan School of Healing
-Graduate of Educating Hands School of Massage
Contact Willow
For Consulting and Soul Doula Care