Sunset Lotus was built on a clear conviction. Every person deserves dignity, autonomy, and care that honors their life through its final chapter. I guide individuals and their circles of support through honest, structured conversations and intentional planning so transitions are not left to crisis, but met with clarity and steadiness.

My path to this work is rooted in lived experience. As a child and teen, I was harmed within systems that claimed to provide care. I know what it means to lose your voice and to be managed instead of understood. That history shaped how I practice. It deepened my commitment to protect agency, restore dignity, and ensure that no one is reduced to a diagnosis, a behavior, or a form.

For over seventeen years, I have served individuals with complex trauma in high-level foster care and within the regional center system, while also coordinating managed care arrangements that allow those nearing end of life to remain in their own homes when that is their wish. I have walked beside families holding exhaustion, love, fear, and fierce devotion all at once.

Across these systems, I witnessed the quiet weight of unspoken grief, especially within the DD community. Loss was present. Trauma was present. Yet space to slow down and honor it was rare. At end of life, POLST forms and DNR orders were signed, but the deeper conversations about meaning, belief, identity, and legacy were often left untouched.

I became an End-of-Life Practitioner because the conversations that shape a life and its ending matter. Sunset Lotus is the integration of my lived experience, professional training, and spiritual purpose. What we create together is more than a plan. It is a living testament to love, values, and belonging. A place where care protects humanity, grief is witnessed, and every ending is honored as part of life itself.

To walk this path with you is my greatest honor.