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End-of-life planning is a critical aspect of a life well lived as it ensures that individuals have a say in the care they receive when they make their final exit.

Advance Care planning is not simply one document, it’s a series of things that complete a well-planned care outline . . . items like living wills, power of attorneys for health care, financial powers of attorney, DNR orders and PLOST, amongst other topics.

Advance care planning is an insurance policy – an assurance to ourselves and our loved ones that our affairs are in order and our wishes are known.

It can be overwhelming for people to try tackle some of the most important decisions they will ever make!

Give Soulful Transitions a call and let's set up an appointment to get your Advanced Care Plan Done TODAY!

You plan dinner-you plan vacation-you plan major purchases-you plan your grocery list-dentist appointments-hair appointments -dinner with friends-
BUT you miss the biggest most important plan you will ever make!!!! The plan for how to manage life in the event something happens and stops you in your tracks! The Life Plan that gives peace of mind to your loved ones and friends when life becomes chaos and emotions run high!

Advance Care Planning is the one insurance policy most often overlooked -tragically it’s one of the most needed for peace of mind!!

It’s the last gift to those who matter in your life!

It is never to soon-but it can be too late!!!

You came naked
You will leave naked
You came without anything
You will leave without anything
You arrived weak
You will leave weak
So, why so much hatred, resentment, envy, selfishness and pride?
We will all go empty handed, what all material things we have earned, we earned here, and will leave everything here only.
The only thing that will go with you, that you actually earned here is the love you shared, the compassion you showed, the humbleness, your gratitude, your helpfulness, your kindness. That is the legacy you will leave here that everyone will follow.

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Contemplate the strong sense of dependence and attachment you have to your own body, and how it cannot benefit you in any way at death. Fear of pain and regret about leaving it will only compound your suffering
Sangye Khadro

On the day I die a lot will happen.
A lot will change.
The world will be busy.

On the day I die, all the important appointments I made will be left unattended.
The many plans I had yet to complete will remain forever undone.
The calendar that ruled so many of my days will now be irrelevant to me.
All the material things I so chased and guarded and treasured will be left in the hands of others to care for or to discard.

The words of my critics which so burdened me will cease to sting or capture anymore. They will be unable to touch me.
The arguments I believed I’d won here will not serve me or bring me any satisfaction or solace.
All my noisy incoming notifications and texts and calls will go unanswered. Their great urgency will be quieted.

My many nagging regrets will all be resigned to the past, where they should have always been anyway.
Every superficial worry about my body that I ever labored over; about my waistline or hairline or frown lines, will fade away.
My carefully crafted image, the one I worked so hard to shape for others here, will be left to them to complete anyway.
The sterling reputation I once struggled so greatly to maintain will be of little concern for me anymore.

All the small and large anxieties that stole sleep from me each night will be rendered powerless.
The deep and towering mysteries about life and death that so consumed my mind will finally be clarified in a way that they could never be before while I lived.
These things will certainly all be true on the day that I die.

Yet for as much as will happen on that day, one more thing that will happen.
On the day I die, the few people who really know and truly love me will grieve deeply.
They will feel a void.
They will feel cheated.
They will not feel ready.
They will feel as though a part of them has died as well.
And on that day, more than anything in the world they will want more time with me.
I know this from those I love and grieve over.

And so knowing this, while I am still alive I’ll try to remember that my time with them is finite and fleeting and so very precious—and I’ll do my best not to waste a second of it.

I’ll try not to squander a priceless moment worrying about all the other things that will happen on the day I die, because many of those things are either not my concern or beyond my control.

Friends, those other things have an insidious way of keeping you from living even as you live; vying for your attention, competing for your affections.
They rob you of the joy of this unrepeatable, uncontainable, ever-evaporating Now with those who love you and want only to share it with you.

Don’t miss the chance to dance with them while you can.
It’s easy to waste so much daylight in the days before you die.
Don’t let your life be stolen every day by all that you believe matters, because on the day you die, much of it simply won’t.

Yes, you and I will die one day.
But before that day comes: let us live..

~ John Pavlovitz

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Life Planning Specialist Certification This 12-week course will prepare end-of-life doulas to help their clients craft a comprehensive advanced-planning package for clients.

Beginning Thursday, March 17, 7-8 pm CST, join us as Penny Stadick, Owner of Grounded Owl Botanicals helps us to connect to and heal our inner child through meditation using essential oils. Penny is a Certified Clinical Aromacare Practitioner

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There are physical causes for terminal agitation like urine retention, shortness of breath, pain and metabolic abnormalities. There are medications that quell it. Yet it’s hard to discount the role of the psyche and the spiritual.

Sara Manning Peskin M.D.

First hunger and then thirst are lost. Speech is lost next, followed by vision. The last senses to go are usually hearing and touch.

James Hallenbeck

Gain a solid foundation in aromatherapy in Aromatherapy 101 with Penny Stadick,
International Doula Life Movement Instructor, Certified End-of-Life Doula,
Certified Clinical Aromatherapy Practitioner,
Founder, Grounded Owl Botanicals and Soulful Transitions
Start date:
January 28
7 pm CST

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International Doula Life Movement Provide end-of-life-doula, companion care doula, Life planning doula all for one low cost and with continue support

Had a conversation the other day with a friend about how some people dont dont realize who is right there in front of you till they are gone, please love the ones that are there and acknowledge them spend time with them as life is short.

This is a beautiful picture of my grand babies putting dirt on their great grandpa's grave. Who else believes that chdren should be apart of this sacred part of life?

This is a picture of my mom on the left (she left this world in 2019) and a picture of myself on the right, its amazing when I look at this picture I can see we look so much alike. Who do you look like who have left this world?

What are you leaving behind as your story?

When my mom was in the final 6 weeks of her death I was blessed to be by her side. We had funny conversations serious conversations and just plan are we really talking about this conversations, but I will tell you that those were the best blessings of conversations I have ever had with my mom! When a loved one just wants to talk listen you may learn something new and help them be calmer and with out fear of leaving this physical world. 💞

Learn to die and thou shall learn how to live, There shall none learn how to live that has not learned to die.
*Tibetan Book Of The Dead*

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced, live your life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice!
Native American Proverb

'Each human should die with the sight of a loving face.'
Mother Teresa