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“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”  Anatole France

Pet Death Doula

When our precious pets/companions prepare to leave this earth or unexpectedly die, we are faced with an ache deep inside. Sometimes, a bigger pain than when a family member or friend dies. We anticipate life without them, whether to treat them medically, and contemplate how we might navigate life without them.

A Pet Death Doula can guide you and support you in your decision making. A Pet Death Doula can help you understand the choices you have relating to their care, management of their bodies after death, ceremony and you as the person experiencing this death.  They are available to assist you to step into your grief, “hold space” for you as you feel your pain and help you to reintegrate into your new life.

We look at ways to prepare for this time in our lives.  We explore the role that our companions/pets/“children” play in our lives and the impact and enhancement day to day we experience by owning a pet.  We also uncover the huge shift and added dependence on pet relationships since families are now more fragmented, and particularly since COVID times.

We explore being with pets in sickness and dying at home.  Decisions we need to make along the way.  Keeping their bodies at home for a while whilst we integrate the overwhelming feeling associated with loss and death.  Establishing Advance Directives for them and us. 

Whether you are contemplating this training for your own development around death and dying or as a career possibility, join us to discover choices, thoughts, and feelings around a furry cuddly, or not so furry slightly creepy (to some of us), pet.        

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enrol: ask.deniselove@gmail.com

$390 5 weekly Zoom sessions
5 modules online posted to a Facebook Study Group page
 

$90 deposit holds your place:

LifeOptions Inc.

BSB        012487

a/c no.  250001495

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Pet Death Doula Training Denise Love

Join us to explore topics in the Modules:

  • The extent of love

  • The pet owner's worst fear

  • All about fear

  • Being a pet death doula

  • Developing the skills so YOU can be a Pet Death Doula

  • Reflection on what pets are to us

  • The magnitude of pet loss

  • The ethics of pet ownership

  • Advance care planning

  • When your pet is showing signs of illness

  • Choices and decision-making relating to treatment

  • Dependable Companion - Learning between animals and humans

  • Animal hospice care: the unhurried death

  • Pet Palliative Care

  • Euthanasia

  • When a pet dies a different way

  • Grief.  All types of grief, working with it.  Theirs and yours

  • Doulaing as a way of life

  • Managing the body.  Keeping your pet cool at home until you are ready to say goodbye

  • Shrouds, coffins, backyard burial

  • Choices in cremation/burial

  • Ceremony

  • Ongoing grief

  • Setting up your Doula Practice

  • Setting intentions for a satisfying, energising Pet Death Doula Practice

  • Stepping into being a Pet Death Doula

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