I bring a passion to this work.
And lived experience, along with formal training in end-of-life care, compassionate bereavement, and after-loss support. I know how to bring structure to complexity and steadiness to hard moments.
My story
Two losses. The same truth.
It started in a bedroom closet over twenty years ago.
A few days after my mother died, I found myself on my knees, pulling down shoeboxes and purses filled with receipts and papers, hoping something inside might tell me what she would have wanted, where things were, or even how she felt.
She was 42. There had been no time for final conversations. No instructions. No passwords or plans.
Amidst her loss I needed to make decisions about organ donation, withdrawing life support, what to do with her remains, and countless other decisions that came down to a guess. And when you are a young adult who has just lost a parent, guessing about their final wishes feels almost impossible.
Years later, when my 92-year-old mother-in-law passed away, I expected things to be different. She’d lived a long life. There had been time. There were resources.
But instead of shoeboxes, there were rooms filled with a lifetime of belongings, and no guidance about what mattered most. No clarity about what should stay in the family and what could be let go. Once again, I saw how grief got tangled with logistics.
Those two experiences were very different. But they revealed the same truth:
People don’t just need legal documents when someone dies. They need structure. They need clarity. They need someone steady to help them through the practical realities of love and loss.
That realization led me to create Fare-Well Co.
Today, Fare-Well Co. helps people prepare when there’s time, and find their bearings when there isn’t.
The most generous gift you can leave your family isn’t money or possessions. It’s clarity.
— Trish MacLeod, Founder
Training & Credentials
I bring decades of experience across education, facilitation, project management, legacy projects, and event coordination, as well as the lived experience of sitting with people in their final days and supporting their loved ones afterwards. That combination means I can offer both real structure and real compassion, at a time when people need both.
I carry commercial general liability and professional liability insurance, and have completed a criminal record check and a vulnerable sector check.
Formal Education: Master of Education (MEd) · Certificate in Adult Education
End-of-Life, Grief & Bereavement: End-of-Life Doula · Willow End-of-Life Educator · Certified David Kessler Grief Educator · Certified Compassionate Bereavement Care Provider (MISS Foundation)
Ceremonial & Practice: Usui Reiki Master · Certified Funeral Celebrant (November, 2026)
Practical After Loss Support: PALS Dealing with Digital Assets After a Death, Executor Training · ICF Coaching Certification (December, 2026)
Memberships & Volunteer: Home Hospice Association of Canada · POC (Professional Organizers in Canada) · PALS After Loss Support Professional · Vice-Chair of the PEI Parkinson’s Association
Relevant Professional Experience: Facilitation of emotionally sensitive conversations · Structured program design and adult education · Event planning for memorials and legacy gatherings · Planned giving and legacy project development · Funeral and tribute materials design.
Credentials and experience can only tell you what I’ve studied and done. They can’t tell you whether I’m the right person to sit with you on one of the hardest days of your life.
So here's what they leave out. I'm steady in the rooms most people back away from. I hear what isn't being said. I keep track of the hundred small things so you don't have to, and I bring order to moments that feel like nothing but chaos. I don't flinch, and I don't rush. Long before there was a business, people found their way to me in their worst moments. They knew I'd stay. The training sharpened that. The rest of it was always mine.
“Your support and the way you checked in with me on the tough days made a huge difference. I truly appreciate and admire your compassion.”
— BM, Charlottetown
Everyone is welcome here
My services are for everyone. Whatever your faith, all of it, some of it, or none, I meet you inside your own beliefs and traditions, never mine. I support people of every background, culture, orientation, gender, and family shape, including those with no religion at all, and those whose spirituality doesn’t sit under a single name. The end of a life is a human experience before it’s anything else. My role is to hold space for what matters to you, on your terms, with no judgment and no agenda.
