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by Jenny Leigh Hodgins
In today's video interview for YourCreativeChord, I talk with Betsy Wurzel about dealing with dementia! Betsy is the founder of #KickAlzheimersAssMovementFacebook Group and the host of the Chatting With Betsy Radio Show. She was a caregiver for her late husband, Matt, who battled with Alzheimers for 10 years. We dive into how this experience prompted Betsy to rise up as a leader bringing support to caregivers of loved ones dealing with dementia. Straight talk and practical tips for caregivers dealing with dementia here as well as a reminder of alternatives for pre-planning your creative memorial and legacy. Find Betsy and more Dementia and Caregiver Support at: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/kickalzheimersassmovement Listen to Chatting With Betsy: https://passionateworldtalkradio.com/chatting-with-betsy/ Stay tuned for the podcast next Tuesday. ​Find Betsy and more Dementia and Caregiver Support at: #KickAlzheimersAssMovementFacebookGroup Chatting With Betsy Radio Show Recommended Resources: ​ Teepa Snow Dementia Spotlight Foundation Teepa Snow Books & DVDs Dementia Activities For Seniors YourCreativeChord Self-Care Ideas YourCreativeChord Music & Nature Video YourCreativeChord Caregiver Support YourCreativeChord Self-Care Resources I provide the step by step journey to relief, peace of mind, huge cost savings, and satisfaction from getting your personalized creative memorial planned within 2 months using earth-friendly, cost-reducing *alternatives* to traditional funeral plans with less or -0- corporate &/or religious involvement. Join my CREATIVE MEMORIAL PLANNING FACEBOOK GROUP to access my FREE video series with Reflections For You ebook. My Creative Memorial Planning Webinar walks you through the benefits of cost-reducing, earth-friendly options, empowering you and your loved ones to create a meaningful, personalized memorial with less or zero corporate funeral businesses and/or religious involvement. It includes tips for saving costs, creating a memorial agenda, programs, communicating with and assembling others, writing and posting a life story online, and more. Through this webinar, you’ll gain peace of mind with a supportive guide who’s been through it, knows the process, and can show you the way step by step. GET Your Creative Memorial Planning Webinar here. ​ ​*** I’d love to feature answers to listener-submitted questions about anything you want to ask about Creative Memorial Planning. All you have to do is email a voice memo to: Jenny@YourCreativeChord.com of no more than 2 minutes, sharing your name, where you’re located, what your question is, and any context you want to share. A few selected voice memos will be included for future podcasts, so please only submit if you’re comfortable having it shared! Created/Produced/Hosted by Jenny Leigh Hodgins Content & Music © 2021 Jenny Leigh Hodgins You can also find YourCreativeChord on: www.pinterest.com/YourCreativeChord/ www.instagram.com/yourcreativechord/ www.linkedin.com/in/jennyleighhodgins/ www.facebook.com/YourCreativeChord
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by Jenny Leigh Hodgins
In my video above, I shared how your personal preferences are a great starting point for getting your end-of-life plans done. I provide the step by step journey to relief, peace of mind, huge cost savings, and satisfaction from getting your personalized creative memorial planned within 2 months using earth-friendly, cost-reducing *alternatives* to traditional funeral plans with less or -0- corporate &/or religious involvement. Click Here To Join my CREATIVE MEMORIAL PLANNING FACEBOOK GROUP to access my FREE video series with Reflections For You ebook! ​ ​Are you ready right now to get your End-of-Life plans mapped out using alternatives to the traditional customs? Learn more about Creative Memorial Planning options with my Creative Memorial Planning Webinar here! The webinar will help you learn about your concerns, questions, or goals. GET YOUR Qs ANSWERED ON YOURCREATIVECHORD PODCAST! ​ I’d love to feature answers to listener-submitted questions about anything you want to ask about Creative Memorial Planning. All you have to do is email a voice memo to Jenny@YourCreativeChord.com of no more than 2 minutes, sharing your name, where you’re located, what your question is, and any context you want to share. A few selected voice memos will be included for future podcasts, so please only submit if you’re comfortable having it shared! If you have questions and prefer not to have your voice featured on my podcast, feel free to drop them in the comments here.
by Jenny Leigh Hodgins
One of the alternatives to traditional funeral plans explored in Creative Memorial Planning Facebook group is the involvement of a death doula. I spoke with Australia-based Death Educator, Doula, Trainer, and Clinical Hypnotherapist Denise Love about how an end-of-life-doula serves families as an alternative to a traditional funeral plan. Drop an #aha if anything in our conversation resonates with you! Ask questions freely! Contact Denise Love to learn more about involving a death doula in your end of life plans. I help 50+ adults and families explore earth-friendly, cost-reducing alternatives to traditional funeral plans with less or zero corporate or religious involvement and map out your personalized, meaningful, creative memorial plan. Get the step by step journey to relief, peace of mind, huge cost savings, and satisfaction from getting your personalized creative memorial planned.
Join Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group to catch REPLAYS from my 5-day virtual event, SUNSET SUMMIT.
Learn about alternatives to traditional funerals and end of life plans that are more gentle, comforting, cost-reducing, and planet-friendly. SUNSET SUMMIT featured a variety of experts offering ways for transforming your Golden Chapter of life with earth-friendly, personalized, cost-reducing, and meaningful end of life services and support. For a limited time you may watch the REPLAYS from experts who presented throughout the 5-day event. You'll hear from death educators, transition doulas, and grief therapists. You'll gain educational information on support for caregivers, midlife wellness experts, and learn more about earth-friendly, gentler alternatives to traditional end of life planning. SUNSET SUMMIT is ONLY available to Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group members.
by Jenny Leigh Hodgins
I soooooo appreciate that I was featured on Fave Lifestyles Facebook Group today with the wonderful host Karen Rae! Fave Lifestyles Group is a community of purpose-driven women who are doing life together! Fave provides community and lifestyle tips for inspired living. The Fave Circle of Experts shares their expertise to guide the community through life’s ups and downs. Watch my interview in the video above. Consider joining Fave Lifestyles group--IT'S WORTH IT! Great group of positivity and women supporting and empowering each other! 
Join Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group to attend my upcoming SUNSET SUMMIT, from October 26 -30, 2020.
You'll learn about alternatives to traditional funerals and end of life plans that are more gentle, comforting, cost-reducing, and planet-friendly. SUNSET SUMMIT will feature a variety of experts offering ways for transforming your Golden Chapter of life with earth-friendly, personalized, cost-reducing, and meaningful end of life services and support. We'll have LIVE presentations from experts throughout the 5-day event. You'll hear from death educators, transition doulas, grief therapists, coaches, and hypnotherapists. You'll gain educational information on support for caregivers, a natural cemetery within a 41-acre conservation sanctuary (Natural Burial Site), and more earth-friendly, gentler alternatives to traditional end of life planning. SUNSET SUMMIT will ONLY be available to Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group members. Join now by clicking the button below.  by Jenny Leigh Hodgins We die how we live. Yeh, I know my topic is How Can We Access A More Mindful State Of Living? But living fully and dying well go together like PB & J, a ball and glove, or fish and water. Here’s the silver lining to that seemingly dark cloud; there are huge benefits from accepting and addressing our mortality. ‘We die how we live’ means that we can access a much more mindful state of living in the present with a sense of relief and peace of mind—once we grapple with the issue of death. None of us will escape the experience of loss. The fundamental commonality we have is that we will all leave this world at some point. Reality check: we have no control over when we go. This is what I’ve learned through personal tragedies and helping many others as an unofficial celebrant through their losses. Through that role I helped others sort out how to handle the remains, prepare a Goodbye Ritual, emcee, facilitate, perform, or speak at the services. I also helped sort out the agenda and create programs, prepare recordings and other personalized tributes as part of the event. I was in that situation because people did not have end of life plans in order and frankly, were unable to function due to grief and heavy emotions. So they could not get anything properly done. No Plan Adds Burden I saw this heavy suffering firsthand many times when there was no plan in place. This is what motivates me as a Creative Memorial Planning Coach; I do not want to see YOU suffer or your loved ones needlessly suffer in that way. I’ve heard some folks say that a plan, and in particular, a Goodbye Ritual is unnecessary. I beg to differ. I have seen both sides to this. When there’s a plan, despite the natural grief process, the burden is lighter, and the legacy provided with a detailed plan becomes a source of comfort, and proof of a loving gesture for surviving loved ones. No plan in place simply adds burden to those already in the vulnerable position of deep emotion. I cannot understand why anyone would dump that onto their loved ones. Mapping out your end of life plan is important as a way of relieving burden, extra expense, suffering, and providing a loving legacy. An end of life plan is a way of leaving our compassionate mark on others and the planet (when opting for alternative, earth-friendly choices). It saddens me when someone doesn’t care enough to get a plan in place. They don’t see how that impacts surviving loved ones. I have seen it. I don’t want people to go through that. Impact Your State of Life But, back to the original topic--having an end of life plan also impacts your state of life. You can relax knowing you’ve done your best, made that compassionate cause, and left your legacy through your compassionate actions. As a Creative Memorial Planning Coach, and host of Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group, I’m different from other end of life pre-planners because I strongly support ALTERNATIVES to the traditional corporate funeral customs. I share about these alternative options in my private group and through my hybrid self-study/coaching program Explore, Choose, and Plan Your Creative Memorial. I’d like to invite you to join my group. I’m hosting an exciting SUNSET SUMMIT October 26-30! You'll learn about alternatives to traditional funerals and end of life plans that are more gentle, comforting, cost-reducing, and planet-friendly. SUNSET SUMMIT will feature a variety of experts offering ways for preparing and transforming your Golden Chapter of life with gentler, personalized, cost-reducing, earth-friendly, and meaningful midlife and end of life services and support. We'll have LIVE presentations from experts throughout the 5-day event. You'll hear from death educators, transition doulas, grief therapists, hypnotherapists, counselors, social workers, wellness and mindset coaches. You'll gain empowering information on living fully, dying well, caregiver support, dealing with anxiety, midlife wellness, and alternatives to traditional end of life plans. SUNSET SUMMIT will ONLY be available to Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group members. So, I invite you to join the group . Please help me spread the word; invite anyone you feel would benefit from learning more about alternatives to traditional corporate funerals, end of life planning, and how to leave a loving legacy with less or zero corporate or religious involvement.  by Jenny Leigh Hodgins Creative Memorial Planning Alternatives to Traditional Funerals One of the alternatives to traditional funeral plans shared in Creative Memorial Planning Facebook group is the involvement of a death doula. Creative Memorial Planning Coach Jenny Leigh Hodgins speaks with Canada-based Death Educator and Doula, Lesley James about how an end-of-life-doula serves families as an alternative to a traditional funeral plan. James says it boils down to the question, "What Would Your Loved One Want?" We discuss how a doula can help during the pandemic, for end of life planning, at-home funeral ideas, natural burials, and the incredible process and benefits of aquamation or water cremation. I help 50+ adults & families explore earth-friendly, cost-reducing alternatives to traditional funeral plans with less or -0- corporate or religious involvement—and map out your personalized, meaningful, creative memorial plan.  Join Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group to attend my upcoming SUNSET SUMMIT, from October 26 -30, 2020.
You'll learn about alternatives to traditional funerals and end of life plans that are more gentle, comforting, cost-reducing, and planet-friendly. SUNSET SUMMIT will feature a variety of experts offering ways for transforming your Golden Chapter of life with earth-friendly, personalized, cost-reducing, and meaningful end of life services and support. We'll have LIVE presentations from experts throughout the 5-day event. You'll hear from death educators, transition doulas, and grief therapists. You'll gain educational information on support for caregivers, a natural cemetery within a 41-acre conservation sanctuary (Natural Burial Site), and more earth-friendly, gentler alternatives to traditional end of life planning. SUNSET SUMMIT will ONLY be available to Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group members. Join now by clicking the image above.
Join Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group to attend my upcoming SUNSET SUMMIT, from October 26 -30, 2020.
You'll learn about alternatives to traditional funerals and end of life plans that are more gentle, comforting, cost-reducing, and planet-friendly. SUNSET SUMMIT will feature a variety of experts offering ways for preparing and transforming your Golden Chapter of life with gentler, personalized, cost-reducing, earth-friendly, and meaningful end of life services and support. We'll have LIVE presentations from experts throughout the 5-day event. You'll hear from death educators, transition doulas, grief therapists, hypnotherapists, and coaches. You'll gain educational information on support for caregivers, a Natural Burial Site within a 41-acre conservation sanctuary, living fully, dying well, and more earth-friendly, gentler alternatives to traditional end of life plans. SUNSET SUMMIT will ONLY be available to Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group members. 
There’s no good time for end of life planning. It only gets easier once it’s DONE.
Advancing like a LION through the end of life planning challenge results in positive feelings like confidence, peace of mind, and a sense of relief. I know this because I've been a creative memorial planner and celebrant for many people. ​ On the other hand, and I know this from personal experience, if you do nothing to prepare an end of life plan, surviving loved ones will have more suffering and burden than their grief of the loss. This is why it's important to use courage to get things in place now. Courage, when it comes to an end of life plan, translates into a lasting, loving legacy for your loved ones. In my video above, tune in to learn how I introduce funeral ALTERNATIVES that help the planet and SAVE you and your loved ones unnecessary expense!
Are you fearful of the End of Life conversation?
​Watch my LIVE video to get FOUR STEPS you need to take in preparation for your most critical moment.
by Jenny Leigh Hodgins
Are you fearful of starting the End of Life conversation? I get it. Death is a taboo topic. We wanna LIVE! But are you able to live fully and mindfully if you haven’t prepared yourself or loved ones for a defining and crucial moment? Follow these 4 STEPS to start a plan for your most crucial moment: 1. Start the conversation. 2. Share your ideas for your creative memorial plan—how to handle remains, where/contact info/payment plan, a Goodbye Ritual (earthy to celebrations of life with a full memorial agenda) 3. Ask for your loved ones’ wishes/preferences/feedback to personalize a meaningful memorial plan. 4. Get these details written and ready The results will be a tremendous relief, peace of mind, a sense of accomplishment, and a lasting gift of your love to those who mean the most —because YOU made the difficult decisions so THEY won’t have to. I help 50+ adults, caregivers, veterans, & families explore earth-friendly, cost-reducing ALTERNATIVES to traditional funeral plans with less or -0- corporate &/or religious involvement—& map out a personalized, meaningful, creative memorial plan. 
Join Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group to attend my upcoming SUNSET SUMMIT, from October 26 -30, 2020.
You'll learn about alternatives to traditional funerals and end of life plans that are more gentle, comforting, cost-reducing, and planet-friendly. SUNSET SUMMIT will feature a variety of experts offering ways for transforming your Golden Chapter of life with earth-friendly, personalized, cost-reducing, and meaningful end of life services and support. We'll have LIVE presentations from experts throughout the 5-day event. You'll hear from death educators, transition doulas, and grief therapists. You'll gain educational information on support for caregivers, a natural cemetery within a 41-acre conservation sanctuary (Natural Burial Site), and more earth-friendly, gentler alternatives to traditional end of life planning. SUNSET SUMMIT will ONLY be available to Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group members. Join now by clicking the image above or the button below.  by Jenny Leigh Hodgins
I'm super pumped to have been featured this week on the Women Living Well After 50 Podcast! This is a great podcast by my fellow entrepreneur buddy and Creative Memorial Planning Facebook Group member, Australia-based Sue Loncaric. Her podcast episode is called CREATIVE MEMORIALS - WHAT ARE THEY? AND WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER ONE. Check out her intro below and click the links to explore more: "I was delighted to have a chat with Jenny Leigh Hodgins from Creative Memorial Planning to discuss the various options available to us if we are looking for an alternative to the traditional funeral. After chatting with Jenny, I had the conversation with Mike, my husband and we are both in the process of documenting our wishes. We have had previous discussions about what we wanted, however, we hadn’t documented them. This episode was also originally published on the YouTube channel so you can also watch the video here." HIGHLIGHTS from our chat:
Click here to listen to the podcast. Let me know if you found the podcast to be helpful! Share widely on your social media and forward by email if you wanna show me some love. 🦋🌳 Book a FREE Discovery Call with me to see how I can help you explore earth-friendly🌎, cost-reducing💰💰 ALTERNATIVES to traditional funeral plans with less or -0- corporate or religious involvement— and map out your personalized, meaningful, creative memorial plan!❣️ |
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