Beyond the Will: Estate Planning & Legacy in Canada
Family Day Reflections: Before You Travel, Make Sure Your Kids Are Covered
Shelley Essery, Certified Executor Advisor Family Day, here in British Columbia, is a reminder of what matters most. It’s about slowing down, spending time together, and taking care of the people we love, especially our kids. For many families, it also falls right in the middle of planning season. Spring break trips, summer travel, visits…
Back to Basics: What Really Matters (and Why January Is the Perfect Time to Start)
By Karla Kerr, Funeral Director & Death DoulaThe Empowered Estate January always has a certain vibe. The decorations need to get packed away, the fridge is full of leftovers, and the gift pile includes yet another bath bomb, mug, or box of calming tea. It’s not that we’re ungrateful. The love is real. But after…
Why Legacy Matters: Reflections on Family, Memory and Clarity
By Shelley Essery, Certified Executor AdvisorThe Empowered Estate The Stories We Carry: A Reflection on Legacy When families gather in December, something soft and familiar awakens in all of us. The kitchen fills with old jokes. Someone brings up that story you have heard a hundred times. A moment of quiet lands, and suddenly you…
A Good Goodbye: Memorial & Funeral Planning That Feels Authentic
When someone dies, the people left behind are often grieving, overwhelmed, and unsure of what to do next. In the middle of their heartbreak, they’re suddenly faced with hundreds of decisions—and no clear map. The Empowered Estate focuses on memorial and funeral preplanning as a powerful, compassionate act of love, for the people who want…
Canadian Estate Planning | Why we created the Empowered Estate
We didn’t stumble into this work by accident. We came together with a shared mission: to make end-of-life planning in Canada less overwhelming, more approachable, and, believe it or not, empowering. For years, we both watched families caught off guard. Not just by the death itself, but by everything that follows. The paperwork. The decisions.…
Family Day Reflections: Before You Travel, Make Sure Your Kids Are Covered
Shelley Essery, Certified Executor Advisor Family Day, here in British Columbia, is a reminder of what matters most. It’s about slowing down, spending time together, and taking care of the people we love, especially our kids. For many families, it also falls right in the middle of planning season. Spring break trips, summer travel, visits…
Back to Basics: What Really Matters (and Why January Is the Perfect Time to Start)
By Karla Kerr, Funeral Director & Death DoulaThe Empowered Estate January always has a certain vibe. The decorations need to get packed away, the fridge is full of leftovers, and the gift pile includes yet another bath bomb, mug, or box of calming tea. It’s not that we’re ungrateful. The love is real. But after…
Why Legacy Matters: Reflections on Family, Memory and Clarity
By Shelley Essery, Certified Executor AdvisorThe Empowered Estate The Stories We Carry: A Reflection on Legacy When families gather in December, something soft and familiar awakens in all of us. The kitchen fills with old jokes. Someone brings up that story you have heard a hundred times. A moment of quiet lands, and suddenly you…
A Good Goodbye: Memorial & Funeral Planning That Feels Authentic
When someone dies, the people left behind are often grieving, overwhelmed, and unsure of what to do next. In the middle of their heartbreak, they’re suddenly faced with hundreds of decisions—and no clear map. The Empowered Estate focuses on memorial and funeral preplanning as a powerful, compassionate act of love, for the people who want…
Canadian Estate Planning | Why we created the Empowered Estate
We didn’t stumble into this work by accident. We came together with a shared mission: to make end-of-life planning in Canada less overwhelming, more approachable, and, believe it or not, empowering. For years, we both watched families caught off guard. Not just by the death itself, but by everything that follows. The paperwork. The decisions.…