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NEW! Anticipatory Grief Drop-In Support Groups

1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the Month

FREE online Anticipatory Grief drop-in support groups for caregivers and patients coping with expected loss on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month.   


This is a safe space to express your emotions without judgment. It's a 

place where you can be honest about your feelings. Whether you are sad, anxious, angry, guilty, or even relieved, know you won't be judged or misunderstood here.


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Attend 1, 2 or All 3 Webinars

Advance Care Planning Made Easy

Learn How to

  • Decide what is most important to you at the end of life and who will speak for you if you can't speak for yourself, 
  • Discuss your end-of-life wishes with your loved ones and healthcare professionals, and 
  • Document your end-of-life wishes. 

How to DECIDE What You Want and Who Will Speak for You If You're Unable

How to DISCUSS Your End-of-Life Wishes with Your Loved Ones and Healthcare Providers

How to DISCUSS Your End-of-Life Wishes with Your Loved Ones and Healthcare Providers

Our first webinar will focus 

on learning the facts and tips necessary to make sound decisions about what your end of life wishes are and who might be  the best person to make medical decisions for you if you are unable to make 

them for yourself.   


Date

May 13, 2025


Time

10:30 am to 12:00 pm CT


Location

Zoom


Register FREE


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Future Dates

August 12, 20265

November 11, 2025 

 


How to DISCUSS Your End-of-Life Wishes with Your Loved Ones and Healthcare Providers

How to DISCUSS Your End-of-Life Wishes with Your Loved Ones and Healthcare Providers

How to DISCUSS Your End-of-Life Wishes with Your Loved Ones and Healthcare Providers

During our second webinar, you’ll learn how to openly and honestly discuss your end-of-life wishes with your loved ones and chosen healthcare agent. Next, we’ll 

show you how to talk with your healthcare providers. Sharing your end-of-life wishes gives everyone 

a better understanding of what 

matters most to you.   


Date

May 20, 2025


Time

10:30 am to 12:00 pm CT


Location

Zoom


Register FREE


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Future Dates

August 19, 2025

November 18. 2025


How to DOCUMENT Your End-of-Life Wishes So Everyone Is On the Same Page

How to DISCUSS Your End-of-Life Wishes with Your Loved Ones and Healthcare Providers

How to DOCUMENT Your End-of-Life Wishes So Everyone Is On the Same Page

During our third webinar, we'll review and demonstrate how to complete your Living Will (Advance Directives) and Medical Power of Attorney (appointment of your healthcare agent/proxy). Blank Advance Directive forms will be provided for you to complete 

during the webinar 

or at a later time. 


Date

May 27, 2025


Time

10:30 am to 12:00 pm CT


Location

Zoom


Register FREE



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Future Dates

August 26, 2025

November 25, 2025

 

Peer-to-Peer Support

Donation Based Private One-on-One Support

Sometimes, a little extra support is just what you need when preparing your end-of-life documents or when navigating your way through the wilderness of grief after a loss. 


Whether you’re looking for a one-time check-in or ongoing support, call or text 512-787-3402 to schedule a conversation. 


Your first conversation is FREE! If you'd like to continue the conversation each call is offered on a donation basis. You pay what you can; you decide what amount to donate after each conversation.

2025 FREE Webinar Schedule

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We will keep you up-to-date on upcoming webinars, activities, and events.

Rewinding "The Conversation"

Of Course, We Know What You Want, Mom - NOT!

It's important that everyone is on the same page. Talk openly and often about your end of life wishes with your loved one

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Be sure to stay in touch with your siblings and other family

 members to make sure you're all up to date on your 

loved one's end of life wishes. 

What Happens When You Don't Talk About Your End of Life Wishes

Remember: It is always to soon, until it's to late

Party On the Beach?

Even jokesters complete their advance directives. 

Meet Your Facilitator

Garrick Colwell

Garrick Colwell has been a Hospice Volunteer since 1987, providing respite care and as a hospice chaplain. He has also served as a volunteer on-call hospital chaplain.  


Garrick is a Respecting Choices®, Person-Centered Care, First Steps®, Advance Care Planning Certified Instructor and Facilitator. 


As a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, Garrick co-created with Hospice Austin Conversations On Grief, a monthly online grief education and support program. He is a Certified Grief Educator by David Kessler at grief.com. Garrick holds a Death and Grief Studies Certification from the Center for Loss and Life Transition under the direction of Alan D Wolfelt, Ph.D.  


Garrick is a widower. During his late wife, Kinsloe’s five-year illness, Garrick was her patient advocate, full-time caregiver, and end of life companion. Recently he lost his dad. 

DYI Advance Care Planning Resouces

Your Conversation Starter Audio Guide

Your Guide for Being a Health Care Proxy/Agent

Talking with your loved ones openly and honestly before a medical crisis happens gives everyone a shared understanding of what matters most to you at the end of life.


Set aside 15 minutes. Then download the guide, and watch the video. It will give you peace of mind and make it easier for your loved ones and health care professionals. 

Free Download

Your Guide for Being a Health Care Proxy/Agent

Your Guide for Being a Health Care Proxy/Agent

 It’s important to choose a health care proxy/agent – the person who will make decisions about your medical care if 

you become unable to make 

them for yourself. 


This user-friendly guide offers facts and tips necessary to make sound decisions about choosing a health care proxy/agent. 

Free Download

Your Guide for Talking with a Health Care Team

 After you’ve had the conversation with your loved ones and chosen your health care proxy/agent, next is talking with your 

doctors and nurses about your wishes. 


Don’t wait for a medical crisis; talking with your health care team NOW makes it 

easier  to make medical decisions 

when the time comes. 

Free Download

Watch "Being Mortal"

 This film is based on the best-selling book "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End." by Dr. Atul Gawande. 


It explores the hopes of patients and families facing a terminal illness, their relationships with their doctors, and the care they 

receive near the end of their lives. 

On You Tube

Hospice Nurse Julie

Julie has been a hospice nurse for many years. Initially working in the intensive care unit, she felt drawn to use her skills for 

the vulnerable at the end-of-life.   


She decided that she would post videos on TikTok and Instagram to help educate people on end-of-life care and death. 


She shares the valuable experiences of the seniors in her care, and makes sure to refute common myths when it comes to attitudes on seniors and end-of-life care. 

Instagram

Conversation Game

 Hello is a conversation game. It's the safe, easy, and fun way to talk about living and dying and what matters most. 


Since we' re unable to gather in person these days, there is a Free short version of Hello called "Hi"  adapted for play over video chat. 


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Empathy

Losing a loved one is hard enough.

Empathy is here to help you 

with everything that comes next.

We guide and support you along your journey of loss, giving you the tools to navigate and prioritize every task.

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EOL Plan

Alleviate stress & provide peace for your family. EOL (End of Life) Plan 

makes it simple for you to:


  • Share important and intimate details on how you want your loved ones to remember you
  • Make difficult yet necessary decisions with a clear mind so your loved ones can understand and honor your wishes
  • ​Learn imperative information about the end of life process and how you can make it easier for your family
  • ​Live without fear of the future and rest assured that your family will be fully prepared

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Lantern

Lantern

Your Hand To Hold For Life Planning


From proactively planning your end-of-life wishes to navigating what to do after experiencing a loss, Lantern has got 

your back — for you, your family, 

and the people you love.

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Additional Advance Care Planning Resources


Advance Directives for Texas

  • Directive to Physicians and Family or Surrogates
  • Medical Power of Attorney
  • Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate 
  • Organ Donation
  • Appointment for Disposition of Remains
  • Body Disposition Authorization
  • Medical Order for Scope of Treatment (MOST)


Advance Directives for all 50 States

  • PREPARE for Your Care
  • Caring Info
  • Compassion and Choices


POLST/MOLST/MOST

  • Physician's Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
  • Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST)
  • Medical Order for Scope of Treatment (MOST)


Remembering Loved Ones 

  • Eterneva - Ashes to diamonds.  The diamond is a symbol that is earned by the loved one who passed. A symbol that their character had the power to make people better versions of themselves. We strive to share that remarkable character with the world.   
  • Parting Stones -  Cremated remains can feel messy and meaningless. Instead of receiving a box of ashes following cremation, you can now receive a collection of stones. Solidified remains, let you feel a connection with the remains of your departed. 
  • AFTR - Stay connected to your loved one. Any place.      Any time.


Movies 

  • Coco - On Dia de Los Muertos, young would-be musician Miguel crosses into the afterlife on a quest to meet his ancestor and understand his family legacy.  Winner of the Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for Best Animated Film and the Oscar for Best Original Song. Available on Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Google Play, and Vudu.  
  • Being Mortal - PBS FRONTLINE follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. In conjunction with Gawande's book, Being Mortal, the film investigates the practice of caring for the dying. It shows how doctors — himself included — are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited, and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients.   
  • End Game - Facing an inevitable outcome, terminally ill patients meet extraordinary medical practitioners seeking to change our approach to life and death. Academy Award Nominee. Available on Netflix.  
  • Extremis - Witness the wrenching emotions that accompany end of life decisions as doctors, patients, and families in a hospital ICU face harrowing choices. Academy Award Nominee. Available on Netflix




Hastening Death

  • Medical Aid In Dying (MAID)
  • Voluntarily Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED)


Publications 

  • Healthcare Bluebook -  Today’s healthcare environment is complicated. It’s tough to know the true cost and quality of care. Price shop for the best healthcare without overpaying.

 

  • How to Be a Patient: The Essential Guide to Navigating the World of Modern Medicine by Sana Goldberg, RN


  • A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death by BJ Miller, MD and Shoshana  Berger 


  • Accompanying the Dying - A Practical, Heart-Centered Wisdom for End of Life Doulas and Health Care Advocates by Deanna Cochran, RN


  • Honoring the Mystery - Uplifting Insights from the Language, Visions, and Dreams of the Dying by Barbara Morningstar.


  • End of Life Care People Across Cultures Want - A four-country survey reveals fascinating differences and similarities.


  • I'm Dying Up Here: Books On How to Grieve and How to Die - Judith Newman examines new books that offer methods for dealing with death and dying — plus a poignant memoir that will show you how to live.

 

  • I’m a Doctor. Preparing You for Death Is As Much a Part of My Job As Saving Lives


  • New Study - Two Out of Three U.S. Adults Have Not Completed an Advance Directive


  • Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life by Ira Byock

 

  • Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness by Joanne Lynn, MD 


  • Talking About Death, by Virginia Morris


  • Embracing the End of Life: A Journey into Dying and Awakening by Patti Lind-Kyle


  • Funeral Home and Cemetery Price Survey from Funeral Consumers Alliance of Central Texas


  • Voluntarily Stopping of Eating and Drinking - A Compassionate, Widely Available Option for Hastening Death Edited by Timothy E. Quill, Paul T. Menzel, Thaddeus M. Pope, and Judith K. Schwarz

Let's Talk About What Matters Most

Let's Talk About What Matters Most

Let's Talk About What Matters Most

The Conversation Project Guides


  • What Matters to Me Workbook - A Guide to Serious Illness Conversations
  • Your Conversation Starter Guide
  • Your Guide to Choosing a Health Care Proxy (Agent)
  • Your Guide to Being a Health Care Proxy (Agent)
  • Your Guide to Talking with a Health Care Team
  • For Caregivers of People with Alzheimer’s Disease or Other Forms of Dementia
  • For Caregivers of a Child  with Serious Illness
  • Being Prepared in Time of COVID-19


Games

  • Hello - The Conversation Game for Living and Dying
  • Morbid Curiosity - A Game About Death  
  • Go Wish Game - A Game to Help You Talk About What Matters Most
  • The Death Deck - Have Fun with Some Taboo T

Online ACP and EOL Resources

Let's Talk About What Matters Most

Let's Talk About What Matters Most


  • Afternote
    Allows you to make your last wishes known, to leave messages for your loved ones, and record your life story in a beautiful way.
  • Cake
    The easiest way to discover, share and store your end-of-life preferences.
  • Everest
    A funeral planning and concierge service rolled into a life insurance plan.
  • Everplans
    A secure, digital archive of everything your loved ones will need should something happen to you.
  • Kudoboard  
    Online Memorial from Coworkers, Family, & Friends. Collaborate to create a unique, online memorial. Add memories, photos, or videos; invite others to contribute; visit online anytime or just print it out.
  • MyDirectives
    Helps you create your own emergency, critical, and advance care plan for your family and doctors so they can make decisions on your behalf.
  • Safebeyond
    The digital time capsule, emotional life insurance.
  • Vital Decisions
    Let's talk about what's important to you. a personal approach to advance illness decision-making and support. 
  • Willow End of Life Education and Planning
    Lay the groundwork for all your EOL planning with free tools and the 7 Tools for Making Sense of Life & Death workbook and online program.
  • Willow EOL Educator Program
    Integrate Willow tools, products, and workshops into your EOL education practice and do more of the work you love. 
  • Gracenotes
    Eulogies for the living

FREE "Being Mortal" Screening and Discussion

"The two big unfixables are aging and dying..."

Based on the best-selling book "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End." by Dr. Atul Gawande, this film explores the hopes of patients and families facing a terminal illness, their relationships with their doctors, and the care they receive near the end of their lives. The film follows Dr. Gawande as he shares stories from the people and families he encounters.  


After the screening, there is a facilitated discussion about actions you can take to communicate your health care decisions.


Click to Watch the Trailer


If you're interested in sponsoring a FREE 90-minute "Being Mortal" online screening and discussion for your company, faith community or special interest group, please call us today at 512-787- 3402

Death Doulas: Companions At the End of Life

A Personal Note

Death Doulas walk alongside us as we approach the death of a loved one. Caring and lovingly supporting us in our final weeks and days. This is video tells the story of our journey at the end of Kinsloe's life.


Thank you once again Deanna Cochran for being there at this tragic and most precious time for Kinsloe and me. And heartfelt gratitude to Leslie Darffin from KCEN TV for telling our story with such grace, care, and kindness.

Advance Care Planning Matters Because You Love Them

Extremis

 Witness the wrenching emotions that accompany end-of-life decisions as doctors, patients and families in a hospital ICU face harrowing choices. Now Streaming on Netflix. 

End Game

Explore the end-of-life support system provided by doctors, nurses, and hospice professionals. Now streaming on Netflix. 

Don’t Panic – It’s Okay: A Letter to Loved Ones Making Difficult Choices

Even when people express their end-of-life care wishes, honoring their choices can be challenging or impractical. Dr. Karen Boudreau’s family knows this from experience. She wrote this letter to her loved ones to offer guidance in case they ever need to make difficult decisions at the end of her life.  

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