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Angela Shook
Angela Shook is an end-of-life doula, companion animal doula and the Past President of the National End-of-Life-Doula Alliance (NEDA). She is an instructor for the doula programs at the University of Vermont and offers multiple end-of-life educational workshops and grief support groups. She is a veterinary doula with Pet Well Mobile Vet where she assists with euthanasia and the end-of-life care and support of companion animals. Angela has received the…
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Dee Ann Moss
BIO: Introducing our December 2024 Scholarship recipient of our END- OF- LIFE DOULA certificate training & Internship Winner. & Earned her EOL Doula Certification in March of 2025. Dee has a history of long- term elder care in the elder care industry including supporting families during the death process and dementia care. She has a big heart and loves working with the elderly. Her current employment is at the Senior…
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Elizabeth Bradfield
Elizabeth Bradfield is a Hospice Care Consultant with over a decade of experience in the end-of-life field. She is a passionate educator who works with adults of all ages, emphasizing the importance of proactive end-of-life planning. Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Grand Valley State University, with a concentration in Health and Human Services at the End of Life.
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Karin Stevens
Karin is from Traverse City and has long-term experience providing compassionate care for friends and family.
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Krista Cain
Krista Cain of Sweetwater Doula provides skillful guidance in birth and death experiences. Krista helps clients balance the intensities and paradoxes that arise at life’s beginnings and endings with tenderness and grit. She’s known for her depth of knowledge, hands-on expertise, contagious authenticity, and capacity to honor each person’s unique story as it unfolds. Special focus: child loss, LGBTQ community, complex trauma, death as rite-of-passage. Outside of work, Krista enjoys laughter with…
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Maristela Zell, PhD, LMSW
I have over 30 years of combined experience as a psychotherapist, healer, educator, and end-of-life doula. I am also the content producer for Whispers of Departure, with WUWU 100.1 Frankfort/Elberta, Michigan. As an end-of-life educator, I help individuals and families in very practical ways to avoid the turmoil that so many people experience surrounding the dying process. My vision is to contribute to a healing culture that restores death to…
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Michelle Merriman
Bio: Introducing Michelle Merriman, our December 2024 Scholarship recipient & END- OF- LIFE DOULA training certificate & Internship Winner. Michelle hails from Bear Lake, Michigan. Her long- term elder & critical care experience will be a great fit for our families.
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Rebecca Grove
Bio: Introducing Rebecca Grove, our December 2024 Scholarship recipient & END- OF- LIFE DOULA certificate training & Internship Winner. Rebecca has long-term elder care experience. She comes from a background of Real Estate and Sales & graphic design in the Big Rapids Area.
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Stephanie Adams
I was born and raised in the small city of Midland Michigan. Went to Columbia College in Chicago for advertising. Worked at the Chicago Board of Trade for a decade. Changed my path and started a career in photography. Where I remained until my father started having difficulties at home so I moved back to Midland to take care of him. When he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s I knew I’d…
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Sue M. Papajesk, Exec. Director
BBA, CNA, Certified End of Life Doula, Certified Doula Care Consultant, Certified Elder Care Doula, End of Life Doula Trainer, Certified After Death Educator **John Glenn HS, Bay City, MI, 1976, Delta College, University Center, 1977 (Special Education) Bay City School of Commerce, 1983 (Accounting, medical, transcription) State of Michigan,1985 (CMH: CNA/Group Home Management/ Dual-diagnosed) Central Michigan University, 1987 (Special Education) State of Michigan, 1989 (Licensed Registered Accident, Life &…
End of Life Doulas & Senior Services of N.W. Michigan
Providing compassionate End of Life & Elder Care services throughout the Grand Traverse & Leelanau Region
