Palliative Support FAQ

Palliative Support is for people who are seriously ill or at the end of life, for their families, and friends. The objective is to offer various types of support so that everyone’s quality of life is improved right up until the end of life.
I’ll come to your home, the hospital, or hospice and offer healing bodywork sessions to you and your family. Caregivers need to rest too. It’s easy to forget to care for ourselves when someone we love is ill. We can lose our balance and get stressed, irritable, etc. And, we have an impact on those around us. When people are at the end of life or seriously ill they are often very, very sensitive (even if they are not speaking or are unconscious). They can be as sensitive as a new born baby, to all the people, emotions, and sounds that surround them. The more relaxed you, your mom, and your siblings are, the easier it will be for your dad to experience tranquility, calmness, and peace.
Often it’s once a week as this helps the caregiving team of family and friends have a bit more support and balance during what can be very challenging times. Though I can visit as frequently as you would like to schedule.
People who are unconscious are often very sensitive and aware of what's going on around them. We can help support them having more peace and comfort when they're seriously ill or at the end of life through offering the soothing treatments of Reiki, sound healing, and light touch Shiatsu. These healing therapies can be very calming as they can help decrease restlessness, reduce pain, help with easier breathing, as well as support rest and deeper sleeps.
I’ve used guided meditation and guided relaxation techniques which have helped people with advanced lung cancer and emphysema have an easier time breathing. It’s not that their condition changes. It doesn’t. However their reaction to their condition often shifts and there’s less: emotional stress and muscular tension (even if just for an hour) which can give much needed relief.
In some cases it can be, which is why I also offer Reiki (my hands rest very gently on or just above the body), guided meditation, or a feathery light version of Shiatsu Therapy.
Yes. I'd be happy to support your mom right to the end of life, wherever she is residing.
I've found that sometimes when people have breakthrough pain (pain that the drugs can't seem to quell) at the end of life that either guided meditation or a guided visualization can help reduce pain.