Your go-to resource for when death or diagnosis enter the conversation.
I'm Planning Ahead
Don't wait for a crisis to get your end-of-life preferences in order.
Advanced Care Planning offers space to explore your wishes, values, medical preferences, legacy goals, and practical preparations with clarity and support. Guided supportive conversations for healthcare wishes, future planning, and what matters most — so families can focus on love, not logistics.
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Advance directives
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Legacy & vigil planning
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Celebration of life planning
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Family communication
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Organizing of important information
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End-of-life education & guidance
Someone I Love is Dying
When you need someone the most.
Steady, compassionate support for families in transition — offering non-medical care and education to help individuals and families better understand the natural process of dying; and bringing clarity to difficult moments so loved ones can feel more prepared, less afraid, and more present with one another.
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Guidance during active decline, crisis, or urgent transitions
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Bedside presence and vigil support
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Final wishes and advanced directive planning
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Funeral, memorial, and celebration-of-life planning
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Emotional and spiritual companionship
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Family communication and support
I'm Caring for Someone
Here to walk beside you.
Caring for someone you love can feel overwhelming, exhausting, and profoundly meaningful all at once. Here's the catch: you do not have to do it all alone! Now offering support for caregivers through education, practical guidance, emotional presence, and assistance navigating the many moving pieces that arise during illness, aging, and end-of-life care.
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Emotional support for caregivers
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Guidance during transitions
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Practical planning assistance
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Respite presence & companionship
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Help navigating difficult conversations
I'm Looking for Support After Loss
Support for the weary heart.
Grief can feel disorienting and deeply personal. Whether your loss is recent or long carried, you deserve space to process, reflect, and be supported with gentleness and care.
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Early grief support
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Reflection and meaning-making
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Emotional processing
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Ritual and remembrance support
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Space for storytelling and healing
I'm a Hospice or Community Partner
Educating families together.
At Living Whole Studio, collaborative and ethical partnerships are valued as an essential part of supporting individuals and families with dignity, compassion, and clarity. The role of the end-of-life doula is designed to complement — not replace — hospice and existing care teams through non-medical education, emotional support, and practical guidance. How the EOL doula can help your team:
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End-of-life education
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Advanced Care Planning workshops
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Community presentations
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Family support services
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Collaborative care support
I'm Newly Married and Want to Protect My Family
Protecting the people you love before a crisis happens.
Marriage, chosen family, blended households, and lifelong partnerships deserve protection and peace of mind. Advanced Care Planning helps ensure the people you trust can advocate for you and your wishes during medical emergencies or difficult transitions.
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Advanced directives & healthcare wishes
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Medical power of attorney support
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Guidance for blended or chosen families
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Organizing important documents
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Conversations around future planning
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Support navigating difficult decisions
How can we help?
Our Founder
Amelia Torres-Young is a death doula, end-of-life educator, advanced care planning specialist, and death literacy advocate based in Macon, GA. Her work centers around helping people navigate grief, aging, and end-of-life with more honesty, compassion, and support. Drawing from her background in Humanistic & Existential Psychology and her passion for supporting those impacted by dementia and Alzheimer’s, Amelia brings a warm, grounded, and deeply human approach to difficult conversations.
She is deeply committed to making conversations around death, dying, and end-of-life planning feel less intimidating and more approachable for everyday people. Amelia wants to be the person families can turn to when the chaos of death or diagnosis hits and they don’t know what to do — someone who can help them feel less crazy, less afraid, validate what’s normal and what’s not, and ultimately feel more empowered as they navigate through it.
What could have been a very uncomfortable conversation became one of the most profound experiences of my life. When you have everything about the end taken care of, you really feel much more peaceful about everything. It takes a very special person to be able to walk with you through how you want to close out your life -- and that's Amelia! Worth every single penny.
Pamela Osorio,
Advanced Care Planning Client
You can tell this is not just a job for her. It’s a calling.
Ada Baker,
End-of-Life Doula
Apprenticeship Client
We were put in touch with Amelia when my father got sick. I did not know what a death doula was before I met her - and now I can't imagine having gone through this without her! She helped give us give my dad the best chance at the best death, and I am forever grateful to her!
Stephanie Lowe,
End-of-Life Doula Client
OUR COMMITMENT
At Living Whole Studio, we are deeply committed to delivering compassionate, high-quality support through education, guidance, and grounded presence. By helping individuals and families better understand illness, caregiving, dying, grief, and planning ahead, this work aims to reduce fear and uncertainty while fostering greater clarity, confidence, and connection during life’s most meaningful transitions.