This profound work is for  individuals in preparation for  final and intermediate transitions — their own transitions, those of loved ones, and those of the world and its many ecologies. 

It is never too early to countenance the ephemerality of our time here on this jewel planet, and too many wander through life without the dazzling sobriety of countenancing their own mortality and that of everyone they know and love. This merciful work matures the character and refines focus.

Liminary Companionship begins with an initial consultation to uncover and clarify individuals’ wishes, concerns, and intentions. From there, we work together to develop a personalized Plan for Living and Dying Well — what do you have to do, say, make, metabolize, admit, honor, or forgive  in order to face the reality of your final passage in a good way, even if you’re likely quite far from it? How can the inevitability of death enrich your life, relationships, and expression now?

In the words of Seneca: “The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

Consultation: $150-250 per hour

Plan for Living and Dying Well — 12-15 hours over 3 months of deep listening, specific counsel, relational and ritual prescription, with text + video message access, towards the creation of a clear Plan for relational, material, spiritual, and economic clean-up and preparation for living and dying well. $2000-$3000. Guaranteed to change your life and change your death, too.

For those approaching their final threshold imminently, I offer intensive support and companionship in the form of emotional, physical and spiritual care for the dying individual and their loved ones. This service is about creating a peaceful and supportive environment, and to guard and advocate for the wishes of the dying.

This may look like very intentional five-sense space-setting, deep and soulful listening, soothing touch, playing soft music, going through old photos together, helping contact friends and family, and attending to practical needs. This companionship is about providing comfort,  reassurance, and practical assistance as needed.

In the last days, which become quite timeless indeed, individuals may wish to arrange for a Final Vigil, with 24 hour-a-day companionship, which I  arrange with the support of another trusted and experienced end-of-life doula. This may also extend into bereavement support for loved ones upon passage.

Weekly In-Person Support (Front Range of Colorado only): $500 per week for 3-4 hours bedside, may include tending body, altar, and hearth, as well as supporting relations, receiving critical confidences, and making offerings of and to the sacred.

24-Hour Vigil in Final Days and Hours — $800-1200 per day, and includes the presence of at least one other certified Death Doula to ensure around-the-clock bedside presence.

For individuals feeling adrift and aghast without meaning or purpose.

Something was supposed to happen, wasn’t it? Something or someone was supposed to point you to the way beyond, and you would go there where something powerful and dramatic and real would happen that would transform your place in the world of the living and the dying, and then you would be welcomed back when you returned, though it wasn’t even sure you would because it was so hard out there, so hard that the the ones who love you would honestly celebrate that you had made it through and done all that you had done, and you would take up your long responsibility to become a good parent, elder, and ancestor, and everything would make a certain kind of sense. Even if it didn’t, at least you would be sharing it with people who knew your name before you were born and would know how to love you when you died.

But that’s not what happened, is it? It is not your fault that this happened, but it is your responsibility to set it back aright.

This Liminary Support is for rebuilding the foundations of being and meaning in relationship to where you actually are, for taking up responsibility for leaving better odds for those who come next by doing the long work of beginning to re-kin-struct the fabrics of story, labor, and ritual that nourish Life. Real Life.

Consultation: $150-250 per hour. Custom arrangements for moving forward upon mutual agreement.