Gifts of Life Ceremonies

12/22/2025

08/02/2025

Beautiful setting for a memorial service. 💜

07/12/2024

instead of saying, "i know what it feels like", let's say "i cannot imagine your heartbreak".

instead of saying, "you're strong, you'll get through this, let's say " you'll hurt, and I'll be here.

instead of saying, "you look like you're doing well, let's say, "how are you holding up today?"

instead of saying, "healing takes time", let's say "healing has no timeline".

instead of saying, "everything happens for a reason, let's say "this must feel so terribly senseless right now".

and when there are no words to say at all, you don't need to try and find some. love speaks in silences too.

~ 'words' by Ullie Kaye Poetry

~ Art by Jennifer Yoswa

06/29/2024

This article is from our Collaborative Member Spotlight section.

Winter 2021Valerie has always had an affinity for working with older adults, and she attributes this calling to her loving and influential grandparents. Valerie has been a life-long professional working with older adults and has devoted herself to end-of-life care as a hospice volunteer, life-cycle....

06/02/2024

Underwater graves?!

05/08/2024

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04/29/2024

Nothing you love is lost.
Not really.
Things, people , they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight.
But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours.
The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart ..

Bruce Coville 🩵

Artist Credit : Laurel Bleadon-Maffei

04/08/2024

As life moves we need to move with it, not against it. Transition happens whether we’re ready or not.
Of course it’s difficult to let go, to stretch, to accommodate, and to be in between here and there yet- discomfort is inevitable whether you remain in a stagnant story that no longer serves or you decide to choose growth.
So choose growth ..

Victoria Erickson ✨

Artist Credit : Nur Rydberg

04/08/2024

Rumi told us that the wound is the place where the light can enter.
Khalil Gibran told us that out of suffering emerges the strongest souls, that the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Marcus Aurelius told us that the impediment to action advances action, that what stands in the way becomes the way.
Napoleon Hill told us that every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seeds of an equal or greater benefit.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross told us that the most beautiful people we have known are those “who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

These writers have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.”
That “beautiful people do not just happen.”

When Joseph Campbell outlined the hero’s journey for us, the premise was that at the moment of the deepest and most unmoving difficulty, the protagonist recognized that it was they who must change. That which seemed to derail the path was the pinnacle moment at which the true path was actually revealed.

In each case, the epiphany is that the presence of the challenge is the initiator. If we are lucky, our lives will continue to grow as we are presented with new paths, and various obstacles among them. To heal is not to arrive at a place where we are absolved of that difficulty, but where we no longer interpret the presence of it as our finality, our ending. Rather, we come to see it is as yet another beginning in support of the continual unfolding of all we will one day know ourselves to be.

In a world where most of us die before we are dead, where most of us hyper-fixate on what we cannot control and leave to ruins everything that we can, where most of us fear our humanness and our vulnerability — I hope you find the courage to try. I hope you will come to see that just maybe, beneath the journey you fear to take is the life you had been waiting for, all along.~
~ Brianna Wiest
Original post on Sacred Dreams FB page)

Art by Annie Hanman

04/08/2024

Tell your story.
Shout it. Write it.
Whisper it if you have to.
But tell it.
Some won't understand it.
Some will outright reject it.
But many will
thank you for it.
And then the most
magical thing will happen.
One by one, voices will start
whispering, 'Me, too.'
And your tribe will gather.
And you will never
feel alone again.
~ L.R. Knost

~ Art by Claudia Tremblay

01/10/2024

Hi-yah Friends! Today we toured the Town Hall Collaborative, THC for short 😜! This cool, eclectic and dare I say “swanky” venue is the location for our Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative Community fundraiser party THIS month- Saturday, January 27th 630pm. Special local rock star guests… Rocks on the Hill, Golden’s jam band will be performing!

Join us to support this compassionate cause and help spread the information about the work we do! 💜