Helping You Find Peace, Meaning & Comfort at the End of Life
Life Review & Legacy
Life Review & Legacy
Life Review & Legacy
Clarifying your life's meaning makes dying more peaceful and living more powerful. We can guide you through a Life Review or Legacy Project.
Life Review explores your life history with the goals of discerning your successes, your regrets, and what you still hope to accomplish. For the dying, it helps you come to peace with your life in yo
Clarifying your life's meaning makes dying more peaceful and living more powerful. We can guide you through a Life Review or Legacy Project.
Life Review explores your life history with the goals of discerning your successes, your regrets, and what you still hope to accomplish. For the dying, it helps you come to peace with your life in your final days. For the healthy, it helps you reinvigorate and redirect your life to live joyfully and without regrets.
A Legacy Project incorporates memories and personality into a keepsake. We might create a video eulogy, compose letters to children and grandchildren, write stories to annotate a recipe collection, or craft a book of milestones and lessons from your life.
Legacy projects as well as life review can be done at any time in your life. Why not examine your life now while you have time to work on changing things before it's too late?
Ready to book a Life Review or Legacy Project? Click here for a 60-minute consultation.
Leavetaking
Life Review & Legacy
Life Review & Legacy
Living your last moments in a sacred, personalized space and being memorialized as you wish are choices most of us don't realize we have.
Sunset Doulas can advise you on how to create a detailed plan for the final days, during which we honor the individual’s wishes for who should be present, music, touch, readings, & rituals.
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Living your last moments in a sacred, personalized space and being memorialized as you wish are choices most of us don't realize we have.
Sunset Doulas can advise you on how to create a detailed plan for the final days, during which we honor the individual’s wishes for who should be present, music, touch, readings, & rituals.
From guiding and aiding you through bedside vigil, to helping you cope with immediate grief, we support you and your loved ones in the ways you choose.
If desired, we can also advise you on creating a personalized celebration of life. Our goal is to empower the family to experience a good death and celebration of life as they define it.
Any members of the family may attend our Leavetaking Consultation, according to the wishes of the dying.
Ready to book a Leavetaking Consultation? Click here for a 60-minute consultation.
What Is an End of Life Doula?
Filling a Gap in Care
End of life doulas (aka "Death Doulas") are transforming the way people die by guiding them and their loved ones through the process of death in an open, supportive, and practical way.
End of life doulas help the dying find meaning in their lives through deep listening, legacy projects, and guided visualizations. They nurture, inform, support, guide, empower and comfort. They provide non-medical, non-judgmental support and guidance to individuals and families through times of critical life change.
They also empower the dying throughout the entire process by addressing worries and issues, informing everyone about the stages of dying, and being present through the end as the advocate for your wishes.
The goal is to give as much control and ease to the dying as possible about the conditions surrounding their death.
An end of life doula creates a safe space for navigating through this most difficult of times--before and during transition for the dying, and after death for loved ones who are grieving and coping with final affairs.
End of life Doulas are non-medical professionals who supplement the work of hospices by spending much-needed additional time with the dying and their loved ones. For instance, they can begin their work well before someone needs hospice.
Questions? Contact Us.
About Us
Marcy McDonald
Marcy is the owner of Sunset Doulas and trained with INELDA (International End-of-Life Doula Association). She is one of only 36 Doulas to meet the rigorous requirements necessary to attain international certification through INELDA.
She also trained with Going with Grace, Maggie's Hospice, and Humana-Kindred Family Care. She has earned the Proficiency Badge from the National End of Life Doula Alliance (NEDA). In addition, she is a member of the Prescott Area Professional Coaches, and the National Home Funeral Alliance.
After the deaths of her brother and parents, Marcy felt called to help others prepare for the end of their lives and to help create a sacred passing for them.
She is the author of Build Happiness: Change Your Perspective, Change Your Life, a neuroscience-based guide to living fully in the present. She has long worked in education and coaching. Look for future workshops on death, dying, and mindfulness.
Marcy's dog Tigger is a therapy dog for veterans and the dying, and an official volunteer for Maggie's Hospice. Her goals as an End of Life Doula are to help as many people as she can to die more peacefully; and also to help as many people as possible to live more joyfully, lovingly, and purposefully before death takes them.
Marcy McDonald on Living with Purpose
Watch this interview with memory specialist Susan Gibson, talking with Marcy about end of life care, her vision for an army of volunteer EOL doulas, & how to find purpose now--and more.
EOL Doula Beth Dahlmeier
About Beth Dahlmeier, MA, LMFT & our EOL Doula Trainer
Beth Dahlmeier trained with the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA). She has years of experience as an End of Life Doula, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Hospice Chaplain. She is also a Reiki Master, Certified Life Coach, Self Care Camp® Founder and Facilitator, and SoulCollage® Facilitator. Beth integrates spirituality, psychology, energy medicine, and creativity into all workshops and retreats that she facilitates, making the experience meaningful, uplifting, transformative and fun. Beth runs our end of life doula training. Contact Marcy to learn more about this program.
Sunset Doulas believe in the dignity of every individual and that death should be a natural and loving experience. Our end of life doula services support family and loved ones without regard to race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or national origin.
Questions?
Click here to schedule a FREE, 30-minute Consultation. We can discuss your questions & see if we're a good fit for your end of life needs.
If you or a loved one is dying, let's talk about how an end of life doula can help you prepare and cope.
If you are healthy, taking a look at your life through the lens of leaving it can bring amazing insights. For more details, visit marcymcdonald.com.
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