Alex Chuc

Alex supports the End of Life Planning training team both as a consultant andmentor.

When reflecting on her life, Alex believes a series of highly spiritual events led her to become interested in end-of-life companioning. At the tender age of 16, she undertook work experience as a carer for children with severe disabilities. She was humbled and touched by “the little souls experiencing such incredible challenges.” Two years later, she companioned her father in his final days.

Dealing with a life-limiting medical condition along with the severe health challenges of her two children led her to seek out holistic and complementary support for the “whole person”. Alex experienced a heartfelt calling to spiritual care and support in the end of life through a Shared Death Experience with her mother 14 years ago and with a 5-year-old boy as he died at the scene of a tragic car accident 12 years ago.

Alex has worked as a special-needs teacher, has training in palliative care support, meditation facilitation, along with mindfulness in compassionate presence care, holistic counselling, Spiritual Direction and currently studying a Diploma of Soul Midwifery. She is a chaplain/spiritual carer at Queensland Children’s Hospital, bringing a compassionate presence to the bedside of children, having experienced herself many a long night in hospital. Along with being the Spiritual Care Coordinator at the RBWH & STARS, supporting and mentoring a team of 23 Chaplains in offering Spiritual care at the bedside.

Alex understands the complexities involved in navigating the medical system, while juggling the emotional roller coaster of isolation, anxiety of the unknown and grief.  She holds relaxation meditation groups in the hospital and her community to enhance a peaceful and regenerative mind, body and spirit. She has found meditation to be a pivotal component in her own healing.

Throughout her entire career, Alex has enjoyed working closely with colleagues and is an advocate for the essential need to ‘caring for the carers’.  She is deeply fulfilled when providing support, education and awareness to those experiencing the end of life journey and feels this is her life’s calling. Alex is currently authoring a photographic book capturing the essence of souls in their living, dying and death. The book aims to bring awareness and education to living and dying well.