Lisa Sasevich Replaced End-of-Life Confusion With a Values-Based Healthcare Communication Framework

I think that doing the Clarity Path is one of the most important things that we can spend our time and money on, especially early in life. It's easy to say, oh, I'll do it later, I'm so young, or I don't need this now. But what I've noticed is that it's a very easy thing to put off, and then the moment comes when you need it and you don't have what you need. So I would say do it sooner than later. Do it while it's not confronting, it's not right in your face, you're not needing it. Hi, this is Lisa Sasevich from San Diego, California. Before I heard of the Clarity Path, when I thought about future healthcare decisions, it just looked like a big mass of confusion, and I wanted to be able to be very specific about my desires, but I didn't really have a menu to choose from of what things to get specific about. My parents passed, my mom very young and my dad very peacefully, so it wasn't until I got engaged and we went through the end-of-life process, which we're actually still somewhat in, with my fiancé's parents. And with the most loving family that was completely present and there to do their best, I saw how treacherous the experience can be with having to guess and having to navigate, especially with one of his parents having dementia and not really being able to communicate her own desires. And so I knew at that moment that I wanted to get ahead of this for my own family and my own kids. When I saw the Clarity Path program and what it included, I knew it was exactly what I was looking for. It was going to give me the framework and the accountability to just show up every week and kick the ball forward in having my desires communicated. It taught me how to figure out what it is I want for my end-of-life path, how to communicate it, and then all the work that we did over the course ended up in this amazing document that summarized all of my wishes that can easily be communicated and used by my family when my time of need comes. What I realized very early on in the Clarity Path program is that if we don't make a plan, there is a plan for us, and that plan is that we become the exact thing we didn't want to become, a burden to our family. It's not the burden of time of taking care of us or any of that. It's the burden of the unknown and them guessing and then having to live with what they guessed for the rest of their life. While I feel like it's an ongoing process and something that I will continuously improve as I age, I feel so much more confident with talking to my family, talking with doctors, and just really being able to have what Dr. Bob taught me, which is a values-based conversation on what I care about most if someone were to be making decisions on my behalf. Take the time, many of us, to do this with our money, right? We do our trust, but do you have the equivalent documents for your life, your end of life? And really, we do our trust to pass things on and protect the people we love, and I think it's even more important to protect and bolster the people we love with letting our true wishes be known. So I would say don't wait. This is something that is so much more easily done earlier than later.