End of Life + Transition Doula
Transition Doula
Aime is a Certified Yoga and Meditation Instructor as well as Eastern Medicine Practitioner. She has also done birth doula work and first fell into death, (or Transition Doula work as she likes to call it), at the age of 12 when her great-grandmother left her body. Since then she has been a presence for transition with massage clients, yoga students and acupuncture patients.
She is highly influenced by the work of Yogi Ram Dass, who was also an End of Life Doula. Aime’s background skills and experiences have placed her in a position to be able to assist the client care-givers family and support communities with navigating end of life matters. A Transition Doula transforms the end of life experience more positively for all involved.
Aime Adams is deeply honored to support you and your loved one during this time of passage and bereavement. Aime I’s training and experiences in self-awareness and trauma allows her to offer companionship, connection and clarity for the end of life journey.
Whether at home hospice or a medical care facility Aime helps clients articulate plan and document their end-of-life needs. Aime also help clients and their family members clear unresolved imprints of fear, anger and trauma, offers end of life sacred rituals and custom meditations helps to release unresolved issues.
Professionalism confidentiality in the highest ethical standards are of upmost importance to Aime. As a Doula practitioner every client and their loved ones are unique and the service is customized to your individual needs. Aime provides physical emotional energetic and spiritual support to the patient, family loved ones friends and their support communities.
As an end-of-life Doula Aime does not impose her own personal values or beliefs on patients and families she specifically supports the client and loved ones with understanding the natural process of death before during and after while providing suggestions for comfort and ease as well. Aime advocates for clients autonomous choices for the family friends and support communities Aime provides a conduit of connection clarity and peace during the spectrum of the death journey within a sacred space she facilitates and encourages clear non-violent communication with family caregivers and any professionals caring for the client. Other Transition Doula services available:
Travel on call support an overnight services available
Perform sacred ritual to honor the dying
Act as a resource for medical directives funeral and memorial planning writing and editing Grief Meditations
When sudden and our tragic death occurs Aime meets virtually and in person with family and friends to allow the immediate family space to honor their beloved and allow space for the grieving process.
Who may need a transition Doula elderly possibly for years before their death is due for arrival terminally ill at any age grieving those who have lost or about to say goodbye to a loved one loss of a pet or beloved animal not near death afraid of death or ready to confront their mortality now looking to organize and plan for end of life at any age regardless of health status Amy Adams is deeply honored to support you and your loved ones during this time of passage and bereavement.
Contact Aime at (703) 579-7606 and aimela30@gmail.com for more information