Betsy is a trained spiritual mentor, is ordained by Wisdom of the Heart Church, and holds certificates in Sound Healing, Aromatherapy, and Sacred DeathCare. Betsy offers Sacred DeathCare services if you are dying, you know someone who is dying, or you want to be prepared to meet death in a conscious, sacred, loving way.
What is Sacred DeathCare?
Sacred DeathCare refers to a holistic and spiritually-centered approach to the end-of-life journey. It incorporates practices and rituals that honor and support the dying person, their loved ones, and the deceased. It recognizes the importance of addressing the emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of individuals facing death and loss, alongside their physical well-being.
While doctors, nurses, and hospice providers attend to the physical needs of the body — for comfort, pain medicine, and palliative care — Sacred DeathCare providers, sometimes called death doulas, attend to the needs of the person’s soul.
As my mentor, Sarah Kerr teaches, the principles of Sacred DeathCare emphasize community connection, cooperation with archetypal forces, and the creation of healing rituals to facilitate a more profound and healing experience for both the living and the dead. The approach recognizes the importance of integrating the soul’s journey into end-of-life care and offers education and support to develop skills in this area.
Sacred DeathCare providers can assist with:
- Preparing for your own death
- Preparing for a death in the family
- Preparing for and processing pet death (especially for children)
- Complex family dynamics around death or loss
- Unresolved deaths from the past
- Pregnancy loss (abortion, miscarriage, etc.)
- Life losses that feel like a death, even if nobody has died
- Integrating non-ordinary or mystical experiences
- Any other deathly situation where the healing energy is stuck
How is Sacred DeathCare different from Sacred Self-Healing?
Sacred DeathCare is a particular way of using Sacred Self-Healing for end-of-life concerns. Sacred Self-Healing is the overarching system of using forgiveness to effect healing, and I apply it to my Sacred DeathCare work.
Care for the Soul
Sometimes death happens quickly, or not according to the plan, and you can be left with unfinished emotions.
Sometimes you don’t get the chance to say goodbye.
You might feel your loved one hasn’t fully crossed over and is stuck here, and not know how to help them.
You might want to support your soul through end-of-life, but not be affiliated with a faith community.
You might need extra help navigating issues surrounding a complicated death.
Betsy provides Sacred DeathCare Services that can help you to hold meaningful rituals, process difficult feelings, support caregiving, assist with one-on-one forgiveness coaching, and much more. She can assist souls to get where they need to go after death and help untangle energetic blocks holding souls here. She can help to provide closure for deaths that have happened decades ago or support you in approaching a complicated death now.
Ritual
Rituals can help to acknowledge the complicated feelings surrounding death or loss and assist in placing the experience in context. And what ritual does best is to bring into sync the physical reality with the mental, social, and spiritual aspects, which often are processed on different timetables. Betsy offers support in planning and holding Sacred DeathCare rituals to bring healing to pain, and transformation to stuck emotions and energy.
Schedule A Session Now
The cost of each 60-minute session is $100. Please complete the New Client Form and schedule here.
Free Class!
Betsy offers a free online self-study class called Preparing for a Good Death that provides tools for:
- Writing your Advance Directive
- Coming to peace with the relationships in your life using forgiveness
- Preparing for your transition mentally, emotionally, and spiritually
- Knowing how death works and what is coming next
- Honoring and saying “goodbye” to your life in a body
One-on-one support
Many folks these days are looking for spiritual ways to acknowledge the transition of death but don’t have a map of the process. Betsy offers Spiritual Companioning for end-of-life care, Support to Caregivers and loved ones as they experience their transition, and Sacred Self-Healing to heal relationships with your loved ones on this side of the veil and the other.
Betsy can serve as your guide through the many aspects of death and loss, providing comfort, support, and practical guidance about the death process.
The cost of each 60-minute session is $100. Please complete the New Client Form and schedule here.