

A Heart Centre for Community End-of-Life Care
Welcome to a space for reflection, learning, and remembering what it means to live well and die well.
All are welcome on this journey as we get reacquainted with the natural experience of living and dying. Together, we can write a new story, one that nourishes us as we walk alongside each other in the wilderness of life and death.

FEATURED GUIDANCE
For Community
For EOL Doulas

HEART CONNECTIONS
Explore some of our upcoming offerings below.
Whether you yourself are navigating or supporting another on the end of life journey, seeking to better prepare yourself for the inevitable, or are a guide for others on the path, these heart-centred offerings seek to help you live well, love well, and die well. They provide opportunities for listening, supporting, and sharing information, deepening our connection within our hearts and the hearts of those around us.
To hear about future offerings, sign up for Endwell's seasonal newsletter.

MEET TRACY CHALMERS
Endwell Founder, End of Life Educator & Doula, The Grief Well Co-founder, Forest Therapy Guide, Author of The Nature of the Journey
I am a mother, daughter, sister, wife, and friend.
My family and friends are the center of my universe.
I find comfort in spending time with my favourite people. Cooking for my family and friends feeds me. I am fuelled by being in nature - simply noticing the birds, the breeze, and the waves. I am also energized by moving in nature; hiking, biking, swimming, paddling, skiing — my moving meditation.
My life up until this point, both personal and professional, has led me perfectly here, to a place where I can gently encourage people to consider a different story about death. With Doula clients and with participants in workshops and courses, I support others to consider what truly makes life worth living, exploring fears, regrets, wishes for future health care, life’s shiny moments, and love. A big focus on love. I do what I can to support a life rich with connection right up until the last moments.
It is my hope to reduce suffering at the end of life by encouraging people to live well, sharing simple information about the nature of the journey, encouraging heart-centred conversations and planning, and finding as many opportunities for meaning, connection, presence, and pleasure as possible.

“Rooted ways embolden us to remember that with our complex minds we can feel—and live—more than one thing simultaneously.
Anxiety, difficulty, fear, despair. Yes.
Beauty, connectedness, possibility, love. Yes.”
― Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature & Spirit

FEATURED MEDIA
Video Interviews, Podcast Episodes & More

HEART MUSINGS BLOG
As a deeply supportive act of self care, Tracy integrates her experiences of caring for the dying and their people through writing. Her blog will share stories from her experiences in community death care. Through sharing these stories about normal, gentle dying, Tracy hopes to help shift the narrative around death from fear based to love based, one story at a time.


WAYS TO STAY CONNECTED
Endwell's Seasonal Newsletter
Each seasonal newsletter will offer a grounding practice, a poem, information on Endwell’s upcoming offerings, and inspiring opportunities from other community death care practitioners. Tracy will share stories, helpful tips, and all things that inspire her to LiveWell and DieWell.
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