We are part of rapidly growing movement of deathcare advocates and providers at the continuum of support at end of life (EOL).
Holly Blue Hawkins• Last Respects Consulting; Integral Thanatology Institute
www.lastrespectsconsulting.com, www.integralthanatology.org • (831) 588-3040
Holly Blue is an author, musician, consultant and natural deathcare advocate and trainer. She speaks internationally at conferences focusing on life→death transitions, legacy, ethical/spiritual wills, creative eldering, conscious dying.and ceremonial honoring of the deceased. She a co-founder and co-director of the Natural Deathcare Initiative, founder of the Integral Thanatology Institute, and principal of Last Respects Consulting.
Julie Esterly• DC, End-of-Life Speaker, Death Doula, Home Funeral & Green Burial celebrant
[email protected] • 831-227-3148
Dr. Esterly is a co-founder and co-director of the Natural Deathcare Initiative. She is an advocate and activist for compassionate, environmentally sound, and economically feasible end-of-life care. A long time Sufi minister, she completed her Final Passages training with Jerrigrace Lyons, attended the First International Death Doula Conference, and continues to study and promote the movement to resacralize death.
Pamela Morgan • Licensed Legal Document Assistant
www.paralegalpam.com • (831) 421-1234
With 30 years paralegal experience, offering affordable Trust, Wills, Deeds and Legal documents. Since death is a normal and necessary part of life, I offer guidance with questions and steps to prepare you and your loved ones for end-of-life. Planning how your assets and estate will be distributed, establishing a healthcare directive, offering memorial and burial instructions for your loved ones.
Andrea Norred • End of Life Doula & Home Funeral Guide
www.sacredpassagecenter.com • 831-345-6210
Andrea is an End of Life Doula, trained directly by International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA) President Henry Fersko-Weiss. She also received training as a Home Funeral Guide from Final Passages Founder Jerrigrace Lyons. Andrea is the Founder & Director of The Sacred Passage Center, an active member of the Natural Deathcare Initiative, and a volunteer with Hospice of Santa Cruz County.
Heather Parsons • Certified Death Midwife & Certified Massage Therapist
[email protected] • 808.289.2833
Monterey/Carmel/Big Sur; End of Life care specialist; Home Funeral Guide; Death Rights Activist; Shaman. Song Healer. Intuitive.Over 2 decades serving folks and families in times of Death and afterwards.
Annelise Schinzinger • AUTHOR, End of Life Caregiver
[email protected] •
(831) 440-6037
Annelise began her career as a professional hospice caregiver in 1991. Her book The Art and Science of Caregiving: Stories of Inspiring Elders with an End-of-Life Guidebook will be released in January, 2019.
Miriam Tutman • Professional Geriatric Care Manager
[email protected] • (831) 662-3636
Miriam assists elderly and disabled so they can stay in their home safely. She is a practicing RN in multiple clinical settings for the last 25 years. Miriam has a passion helping individuals and families in end of life care, as well as training in various end-of- life rituals.
Lela Carney• LAc, MA, SEP
www.lelaccarney.com • (831) 479-3531
Lela's practiced Acupuncture & Functional Medicine for 35 years, adding Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Somatic Experiencing & NeuroAffective Touch for
healing shock trauma, developmental trauma & stress-related illness across all stages of the living/dying process. She works with both patients & their care providers, knowing from her own experience how demanding and sometimes draining end of life care-giving can be. She can offer attuned support to all members of the caring circle as deep attachment bonds reconfigure across the veil between living and dying.
Cynthia Gustin• Hospice Caregiver
Cynthia completed CNA training in 2008, and began working with hospice clients. She finds the work extremely rich and rewarding and knows that she has found her calling. She assists clients with the activities of daily living as well as provides a safe space for them and their loved ones in this beautiful journey. She strives to create loving and nurturing spaces with the utmost peace, calm
and ease. She is studying to be a deathcare advocate and end of of life celebrant.
NAOMI ROSE EHRICH • NONRELIGIOUS FUNERAL OFFICIANT and END-OF-LIFE CEREMONY LEADER
www.santacruzofficiant.com •
(831) 515-8594
Naomi writes and performs nonreligious, unique, personal and meaningful funerals, memorials, and celebration of life ceremonies that reflect the truest expression of your loved one’s life, and honor your need for grieving and healing. She also performs home funerals, ash scattering ceremonies and gravesite services.
Patricia Kimie • end of life educator and counselor
(831) 756-1381
Patricia is an end of life educator and counselor. She specializes in details and also the legal aspects that need to occur when Pre-Arranging funerals, simple or elaborate. Patricia is also giving short tours at the newly opened Green Cemetery in Purissima, near Half Moon Bay.
Carol Fitzgerald • Reverend
[email protected] • (650)722-1292
Life Transitions Officiant for 30 years. Ceremonies With Heart and Meaning. End of Life Doula, home funerals, pastoral counselor; Member of INELDA; completed Final Passages training in 2017
A Completed Circle: Home Funeral Community Education and Consultation
Tami Thomas, Founder; Trish Lyons; Ben Mutch and Mariah Thomas. Grass roots foothill folks with training by Jerrigrace Lyons of Final Passages. Check us out on Facebook.
Mary Dixon• RN
Mary is a certified Hospice and Palliative Care nurse who combines medical knowledge with spiritual awareness to create beautiful transitions at the end of life and memorable Celebrations of Life.