Empowered Endings

10/13/2026

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10/12/2026

A good day can reveal what you value most—connection, independence, comfort, purpose, nature, faith, creativity, or something else. What would be on your list?

Begin With Awareness, visit: TheClarityPath.ai

10/08/2026

🌟Join us at the Labor Out Conference! We’ll explore what the future looks like when healthcare and deathcare work together, as a team, instead of in separate silos. 🤝

📍 Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
📆 October 28th (10/28/2026)
⏰ 8:00am to 5:00pm
🎓 Healthcare Professionals earn 7 CEU’s

🤩 Register Today: https://share.google/xpwiEO9uXkco9SgJ4

10/07/2026

Advance care planning becomes more useful when it sounds like the person—not merely the form. Start by identifying the values and thresholds that should guide future decisions.

A calm conversation today can ease confusion tomorrow. The Clarity Path gives you a guided way to begin—one thoughtful step at a time.
💛 Visit TheClarityPath.ai

🌟Reserve your place this November!

💻 Two Virtual sessions
👭 You can add a partner to join you
🎁 You’ll receive a Personal Clarity Statement and a Clarity-Based Advance Health Care Directive

Give the gift of Clarity!
💛 Visit TheClarityPath.ai
Can't wait to see you there!

09/30/2026

Picture the room where you'd want to spend your final days.

☀️Is there sunlight coming through the window?
🐾 A dog curled up nearby?
🎵 Your favorite music playing?
❤️People you love coming and going?
Quiet? Laughter? Familiar smells? Your own pillow?

Now the bigger question: Would your care make that room possible?

Symptoms, caregiving needs, family circumstances, access to support and the healthcare system itself can all shape what's possible. Recent research reinforces just how complicated the difference between a preferred place of death and the place someone actually dies can be.

🏠 Planning ahead can't guarantee the last room you'll be in.
🖼️But it can give the people caring for you a much clearer picture of the room you're hoping for.

09/29/2026

We’re looking forward to the San Diego Dementia Consortium’s 15th Annual Brain Health Forum 🧠

🌟 Empowered Endings is proud to be a Gold Sponsor.🌟

This year’s forum focuses on reducing dementia risk through wellness, with expert presentations and practical ideas for individuals, families, caregivers, and professionals.

Stop by the Empowered Endings booth! We’d welcome a conversation about advance care planning and how families can make important healthcare wishes easier to understand and honor.

You can also visit the Empowered Palliative Care booth to learn about support for people living with serious illness and their families.

📆 Thursday, October 1st

⏰ 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

📍San Diego Oasis in Rancho Bernardo

Register here: https://forms.gle/8U6GfVidaWKWejxC6

We hope to see you there!

09/24/2026

We often talk about someone's "legacy" after they're gone. But legacy doesn't have to wait. ❤️

It can be telling the story your kids have heard 100 times—and recording it this time. 🎙️
Writing a note for a future birthday. ✍️
Choosing the songs you want people to remember you by. 🎶
Labeling the people in old photographs. 📷
Sharing the recipe everyone loves but nobody knows how to make. 🥣

A recent Guardian piece makes a beautiful case for thinking about mortality before we have to—and how doing so can bring our relationships, legacies and what matters most into sharper focus.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/18/contemplating-death-helps-us-to-really-value-life

At the end of life, these aren't extras around the edges of care. They are part of caring for a life.

Letters: Say the thing, mend the relationship, share the story – and then get on with living, says end-of-life doula Rebecca Jo-Rushdy, while Jane Andrew thinks EM Forster said it best

09/17/2026

End-of-life care is healthcare. But some of the things weighing most heavily on a person may have nothing to do with medicine.

💭 Am I becoming a burden?
❤️ Will my family be okay?
🗣️ Is there something I still need to say?
🤝 Is there someone I need to see?
🕊️ What am I leaving unfinished?

These concerns don't show up on a lab result or a medication list. But they can profoundly shape how someone experiences the end of life.

Good end-of-life care makes room for the whole person, not just the diagnosis.

Because sometimes the most important question isn't "How are your symptoms?"
It's "What's on your mind?"

https://empoweredendings.com/individual-and-group-support/

09/16/2026

Death in Small Doses is a free live webinar series designed to make the conversations around death, dying, and end-of-life care feel more approachable, informed, and human.

Each one-hour session will feature a different expert diving into an important topic in deathcare — from caring for ourselves as professionals, to understanding medical options, to exploring how the way we die is evolving.

📆 Join us on Thursday, September 17th

⏰ 10:00am to 11:00am PST

🎤 Dr. Bob Uslander on Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), emerging trends, and how deathcare is continuing to change.

📲 Register Today: https://v2.stan.store/DeathDoulaKacie/p/death-in-small-doses-free-webinar-917-w-dr-bob

Whether you work in healthcare or deathcare, support families, or simply want to feel more informed and empowered around these conversations, you’re invited to join us.

💛 Hope to see you there!