How it Began:

I began my veterinary career as a child by bandaging, comforting and loving my family pets through a complex variety of made-up illnesses.  As I matured, this innate calling never wavered.  In 1994, I graduated from the NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine.  For the next fifteen years, I worked in several excellent small animal practices as well as emergency medicine.  I bandaged, comforted and loved my client’s pets through a complex variety of very real illnesses, but there was a heartbreaking need that I just could not meet.  The hospital environment was too sterile and fast paced to adequately provide a suitable environment for clients to grieve during the passing of their friends. 

While searching my heart for career direction, I felt another clear calling.  God led me to a place where I could finally address the great need that I was unable to meet in a hospital setting.  He placed upon my heart a practice exclusively devoted to offering as comfortable and as calm a parting as possible.  Peaceful Passing came to be soon after, and is currently the only such service offered in the Raleigh area.