Animal Hospice & End-of-Life Preparation
While Your Beloved Animal is Still Well
Join Sandy Rakowitz in this Interview with
Dr. Ella Bittel, Holistic Vet
during National Hospice Month
DATE: REPLAY is now available (Registration below)
TIME: Anytime around the World
WHERE? Listen from your computer
Free? – YES!
See more info below or click here to go to registration page.
Hospice and end-of-life care brings the focus on living, right through the end…
…So that we can have more meaningful moments together.
On November 13, 2014, I hosted an interview on The Animal Heart Wisdom Show
with Ella Bittel, a compassionate and talented Holistic Veterinarian who
specializes in following animals through their last season of life…
Ella has created Spirits in Transition, to follow animals on their path,
all the way through end of life by offering options in End-Of-Life and
Hospice Care.
When my horse Sunny was 35 yrs old (quite elderly for a horse!) was when
I first met Ella. I heard her speak on End of Life Care with animals and was
so deeply touched and moved.
I was able to spend some time talking with her and her suggestions
for caring for my aging horse were inspiring and comforting.
The following year, my horse was still alive, and though blind,
was doing quite well. There had been a few roller coaster rides
of his almost leaving, and then making remarkable come backs.
Sunny and I pictured below while out for a walk in his pasture
at age 36 when he was blind.
Ella Bittel photographed us during while visiting to teach
her Spirits In Transition Seminar.
Ella guided me steadfastly. We all learned a tremendous amount about
embracing the ‘last season’ of my horse’s life. My life was changing
profoundly as I learned lesson after lesson about dealing with a horse
during his end-of-life ups and downs.
I kept finding ways to help him deal and balance emotionally, physically,
and mentally with this process – and me too!
Anyone who has gone through end of life times with a human or animal
knows the many challenges of such a time.
Ella has amazing insights and tools to offer. The article below are
highlights from a longer article that can be found on her informative
website www.SpiritsInTransition.org
A good time to learn more about End-Of-Life Care is when your
animal is still well.
Education about the end-of-life process is
incredibly helpful. Since I met Ella in 2006, I have
been honored to help hundreds of clients
navigate this precious time as well.
Understanding the process, what to look for and
having tools at hand to use can make all the difference during this time
to your choices, your animal – and your quality of life – and peace of mind
and peace in your hearts also!
I hope you also join us for this free interview with Ella:
Animal Hospice & End-of-Life Preparation
While Your Beloved Animal is Still Well
See more info below or click here to go to registration page.
Embracing The Last Season:
A Note From Ella…
Quality of Life and Quality of Death
Excerpts Reprinted with permission
There is no doubt left even if there weren’t studies to prove it:
Our animal companions have loved their way into our families.
Few caretakers shy away anymore from admitting their pawed ones are their kids.
We share our beds and dishes, pick the pet food with an ingredient list that reads
most like the shopping list of a gourmet chef, and the pillow of our otherwise
inviting looking chair – and warns uninitiated visitors:
“If you don’t like dog hair, don’t sit down.”
When it was her dog Momo’s time to get ready to depart,
it became clear to Ella that none of her traditional nor holistic
veterinary training had prepared her for how to support a dying animal.
The picture below was taken one day before Momo’s natural passing at 17 yrs., marking the
beginning of Ella’s commitment to learn about and help further animal hospice.
“Saying goodbye may not be easy, but embracing the dying process in
its fullness also prepares our heart to say to our loved one, “I will be all right.
You are free to go whenever the time is right for you.”
<About eating and not eating…>
Maybe we were just unfamiliar with what dying looks like when
it happens in its own good time?
Maybe we were just unaware of the fact well known in human hospice
that the body may no longer desire food when it is in the process of wrapping up its business?
This usually does not pose a discomfort to the one dying, yet nonetheless consistently
upsets those relatives who do not know what is involved with that process: they commonly
confuse the possible loss of interest in food with starving.
A dying body simply has no use for fuel for a future that will not happen.
Yet this does not equal the ceasing of the will of the dying to still experience
all that is happening.
It is human to be afraid of death, especially the one of our loved ones.
Yet that very love connecting us to our human and animal children forms the core
of our ability to question preconceived notions about dying and suffering, to inquire
ahead of time how we can prepare for not only facing, but embracing the last
season of life and the ultimate challenge it can be to support our loved
ones throughout the time of farewell.
We may just find that supporting a dying animal gifts us with the opportunity
to prepare for fully being there, also for a dying human and for our own inevitable
departure whenever it may come.
To listen to an interview with Ella Bittel, see info below…
♥ The Animal Heart Wisdom Show ♥
and Sandy Rakowitz, Animal Communicator & Transformational Healing Coach
Proudly present a
Tele-conference with Dr. Ella Bittel, DVM
November is “Hospice Month”
We honor this with animal care too.
We have people registered from ALL over the world
– 32 US States & 12 Countries and growing everyday! Join us…
>>Please share this info and registration link with your animal loving friends.
>>Use this link for more info
and to register for Call In Info & replay
Topic:
Animal Hospice & End-of-Life Preparation
While Your Beloved Animal is Still Well
DATE: REPLAY is now available (Registration below)
TIME: Anytime around the World
WHERE? Listen from your computer
Free? – YES!
There was a rare opportunity to ask Ella questions
during this event!
More Info and Registration – Click Here
Pass this along to anyone around the world who may be interested!
About Sandy:
Sandy Rakowitz is an Animal Communicator, Transformational Healing Coach, Teacher, Author and Speaker. She is Founder of Living Your Best Life ‘Animal Communication’ Training and Mentoring Certificate Program and One Heart Healing Center for People & Animals where she guides animal lovers and animal care professionals to: Access and Develop their Natural Intuitive and Psychic abilities to learn what their animals are saying; Learn Integrative Holistic Skills for Animal Wellness; Develop End-of-Life and Pet Hospice Support; and to Awaken their Life Purpose with animals.
Learn animal communication so you can be part of the growing movement of people who can understand what their animals are really saying!
Work with Sandy: www.OneHeartHealingCenter.com
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