What is an End-of-Life Coach?

Imagine an End-of-Life Coach as a personal trainer for death planning, where the goal is to give you tools that will help you create your end-of-life Care Plan.

Imagine an End-of-Life Coach as a personal trainer for death planning, where the goal is to give you tools to determine What Matters Most To You and create your end-of-life Care Plan. We create a space of safety and ease for conversations about death and the dying process, exploring with curiosity What Matter Most To You to you now and what may matter most to you in end-of-life. We promote a healing culture around end-of-life care – where healing is about comfort, compassion, and dignity, and less about what is medically curative.

Delta Waters, death doula

Did you know?

The #1 regret of people who are dying wish they’d had the courage to live a life true to themselves, not the life others expected of them?
You have choices and can orchestrate your end-of-life care and treatment in many ways.
Imagine what you would (or would not) like your last days of life to look and feel like.
Have you ever thought about where you would like to spend your last days? What have you done to ensure that happens?
Talking more about death makes people less fearful and less uncomfortable when thinking about their own deaths.
You have an opportunity to shift your life to live each day more fully.

Who would benefit from an End-Of-Life coach?

If you are navigating a terminal illness (yourself, a loved one)
If you are caring for someone who is nearing End-Of-Life
If you are interested in End-Of-Life work
If you are simply interested in having conversations about life and death, and prioritizing the care you want and need at End-Of-Life
Community groups and organizations who are interested in initiating conversations focused on learning more about death and dying, through a presentation or workshop

As your End-Of-Life Coach, I will provide a brave space where we will talk about death in terms of your best life care choices.

Our focus begins with your wellness today – physical, spiritual, and emotional – and allows you to prioritize the care you want and need at end-of-life. These sessions encourage consideration of what is most important to you, what priorities you will focus upon, and what comfort care you will want. Here, you are empowered to create an alignment with What Matter Most To You to you and allow a place for you to celebrate love and connection while also letting go of anything that isn’t serving you. You will determine what would make your death your own.

This is deep and often emotional work. I ask for full engagement as you investigate what life fulfillment looks like for you.

I provide resources for education, guide you as you determine your care plan, and support you as you share your goals/wishes with your people. It opens the field to conversations we often avoid and allows for space to discuss and make known your choices and your desire that they honor and support your decisions. One of the most widely expressed regrets of people who’ve lost a loved one is not knowing what that person would have wanted during their final days and hours.