Serious Illness and End-of-Life Support
For individuals approaching end of life and the people caring for them.
Receive compassionate, non-medical support focused on comfort, dignity, companion care, meaningful connection, peace making and ritual.
Services may include:
- Spiritual, Emotional, Social, and Practical Support: Compassionate support centered on your comfort, relationships, beliefs, and needs.
- Guidance About the Dying Process: Helping you and those caring for you understand what may happen as death approaches and prepare questions for your healthcare team.
- Bedside Companionship, Respite, and Vigil Support: Comforting presence through serious illness and dying, allowing care partners time to rest.
- Advance Healthcare Planning, Advocacy, and Coordination: Documenting your wishes, communicating care preferences, and coordinating support.
- Final Conversations and Love Legacy: Meaningful conversations, personal messages, and storytelling through writing, video, or photography.
- Personal Rituals and Sacred Practices: Honoring your beliefs and wishes through meaningful rituals and traditions.
- Grief- and Trauma-Informed Support: Compassionate companionship as you and your loved ones navigate uncertainty, loss, and grief.
Planning Ahead & Love Legacy
For anyone who wants to prepare before a health crisis. Clarify what matters most, communicate your wishes, and create a personalized plan for your care, love legacy, and end of life.
Services may include:
- Awakening: Embracing Your Whole Life (Mortality): Reflecting on your mortality to bring greater awareness, intention, and meaning to how you live.
- Living Your Best Life (Life Review & Aging): Exploring your experiences, values, and hopes as you consider what matters most in this season of life.
- Organizing Essential Information (End-of-Life Checklist): Gathering important documents, contacts, and practical details to help those who may care for you or manage your affairs.
- Advance Healthcare Planning: Clarifying your care preferences, identifying a healthcare decision-maker, and documenting your wishes.
- Facilitation (Communicate Your Wishes): Guided conversations to help you share your values, choices, and expectations with the people who matter to you.
- Grief- and Trauma-Informed Support: Compassionate support that honors your experiences as you navigate feelings about aging, change, loss, and planning ahead.
Navigating a New Diagnosis
For individuals and families facing a serious, chronic, or life-limiting diagnosis.
Receive steady, compassionate support while processing the diagnosis, understanding your options, and preparing for what may come next.
Services may include:
- Advance care planning: Clarifying your values, documenting your wishes, and preparing for future healthcare decisions.
- Serious illness companionship: Steady, compassionate presence as you navigate your diagnosis and daily experiences.
- Healthcare advocacy and logistical planning: Preparing questions for your healthcare team, communicating your priorities, and organizing practical details.
- Facilitated family conversations: Creating space to discuss your diagnosis, wishes, concerns, and support needs.
- Spiritual, psychosocial, emotional, and practical support: Exploring meaning, processing emotions, navigating changes in relationships, and addressing everyday needs.
- Support for care partners: A listening ear and guidance as those caring for you navigate their own feelings and responsibilities.
- Grief- and trauma-informed support: Compassionate support that respects your experiences as you process uncertainty, loss, and change.
- Storytelling, videography, and photography: Preserving your stories, memories, and meaningful moments in ways that reflect your wishes.
Celebrant Services
A celebrant is someone who creates and leads meaningful events/ceremonies, coordinate meaningful details that reflect the life, beliefs, culture, and values to honor a person in life or mark an important transition.
Ceremonies can be religious, spiritual, secular, or a blend.
Services may include:
- Celebration and Ceremony Planning: Planning support and celebrant contributions for meaningful gatherings that honor a person’s life, story, beliefs, and wishes.
- Living Celebrations: One last Party (end of life style) or gathering while a person is living to honor them, share memories, express love and gratitude, and create meaningful moments together.
- Remembrance/Memorial Rituals: Personal or shared practices that honor someone who has died, nurture connection to their memory, and reflect their beliefs and traditions.
- After-Death Planning and Family Guidance: Administrative and coordination support for families navigating next steps and small-estate responsibilities.
- Personalized Rituals and Ceremonies: Meaningful expressions that honor personal beliefs, culture, wishes, and significant transitions.
- Obituaries, Eulogies, Programs, and Tributes: Help crafting words and materials that honor a person’s life and story.
- Storytelling, Videography, and Photography: Preserving memories, personal stories, and meaningful moments.
- Grief- and Trauma-Informed Support: Compassionate companionship that respects your experiences, needs, and pace.
Pregnancy Loss Grief Support
For individuals and families experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion or another pregnancy loss.
Services may include:
- Companionship and listening: Space to share your story and feelings without judgment or pressure.
- Support for partners and family: Support with communicating feelings, recognizing different grieving experiences, and expressing support needs.
- Remembrance and legacy: Creating letters, keepsakes, memory boxes, or other personal ways to honor your baby.
- Rituals and ceremonies: Planning a private remembrance, naming ceremony, blessing, or memorial that reflects your beliefs and wishes.
- Preparing for difficult moments: Support around due dates, anniversaries, holidays, and conversations with others.
- Connecting with resources: Help finding pregnancy loss groups, licensed grief counselors, and other community support.
Storytelling: Capturing Your Story
Your Story Matters. Your Voice Matters.
The stories we carry hold our experiences, relationships, traditions, and wisdom. Sharing them offers an opportunity to feel seen and heard, and to reflect on what matters most.
We want to support you in preserving what you want others to remember.
Through thoughtful conversation, guided life review prompts, deep listening, videography, and photography, Sacred Moments supports you in telling your story in your own words.
Together, we can create:
- Life Story Interviews: Guided conversations about meaningful experiences, relationships, and lessons.
- Love Legacy Messages: Recorded expressions of love, gratitude, hopes, and wisdom for the people who matter to you.
- Family Stories and Traditions: Personal histories and cultural memories to share across generations.
- Remembrance Stories: Reflections and memories that honor someone who has died.
- Meaningful Moments: Photographs and video capturing connection, milestones, and everyday moments you want to remember.
You choose what to share, who it is for, and how you want your story honored.
Contact Sacred Moments to discuss your storytelling or love legacy project.
Community Grief Circle Coming 2027
Virtual and In-Person Healing Circle • Coming in 2027
Grief is personal, and it can also be shared by families, communities, and the world around us.
Whatever loss you are carrying, you deserve space to acknowledge it and feel supported.
Join Sacred Moments for a compassionate gathering supporting individual, community, and collective healing. Together, we’ll make room for reflection, meaningful connection, and the practice of giving and receiving care.
The Gathering May Include: Grief education, guided conversation, optional spiritual practices and rituals, reflective exercises, and worksheets.
Come to share, listen, or simply be present. Participation is always optional. There is no required way to grieve and no expectation to have the answers.
Date, location, and registration details will be announced.
Contact Sacred Moments to express your interest and subscribe to receive our newsletter and event updates.
We practice our humanity when we make room for one another and allow our grief to be witnessed.