the art of holding a soul

 With almost two decades of experience being a labor and delivery/newborn nurse, childbirth and bereavement educator, now a pediatric triage RN,

Sarah Galanif Bryant founded Holding Souls, to provide your family with the comfort of knowing you can rest a little easier knowing your sacred loved is in our hands. 

Sarah was honored to care for her grandmother for those sacred days before she passed in her home, as well as, the privilege to care for her grampa weekly until he needed full-time dementia care.  Sarah shared, "Holding Souls is the closest I can come to caring for my nana again, now I'm caring for other people's grandparents as i would care for my own if i could." 

From a newborn's first breath to a soul's last, a healing heart is the best compass.  Walking beside you to provide compassionate respite care, through day or night, as you navigate the waters of caring for a new baby at home or helping a soul transition from this Earth.  

Holding Souls care providers are each dear to sarah and have been personally chosen to care for you, because they believe in our mission, to give the phenomenal care that each soul deserves.

Sarah provides her presence, Reiki Master hands, as well as her photographic artistic eye to capture sacred moments, to the greater Portland area families. 

Sarah resides in a seaside town with her Husband and two babies (12 & 6).