Samantha Potter at 60, living her purpose
Samantha receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy for Stage III breast cancer in late 2021
Samantha Christmas morning, 2022; 2 months post radiation therapy, the last of her active cancer treatment
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Samantha Potter, 2024
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Samantha Potter, 2025
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Hello, I’m Samantha Potter,

a Life Threshold Transformational Coach and End-of-Life Doula specializing in utilizing positive psychology and mental fitness to help you cope with those major life transitions that occur in everyone’s life. I am a newly retired Spokane County, Washington Registered Paralegal; having specialized from the early 2000s in estate planning, probate, and trust administration, affording me a broad experience in end of life issues. I have also recently gone through my own cancer journey. My lived experience is instrumental in providing me the tools to assist you navigate your own life thresholds gracefully and with intention.

My life’s work is to assist your in navigating life’s thresholds, whether it is adjusting to living in a new place, integrating blended families, or the loss of a job or relationship, through planning to keep your life relevant into retirement, or learning to cope with a life-altering (or terminal) medical diagnosis for yourself or a loved one; working with you to determine exactly how you wish to die, assisting you in constructing and carrying out your vigil plan, helping your family navigate your final disposition and honoring of your life, through providing bereavement support to your loved ones after you pass.

My professional affiliations include:

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