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Hey everybody, it's Aubrey with eulogiesbyaubrey.com. I just wanted to pop on here for a quick little update. This is my monthly vlog; this is going to be a little quick video but I just wanted to give a little update to everybody. My family and I are going to be moving in a few days from Fort Worth to a town called Waxahachie. It's about 50 minutes south, southeast of Fort Worth or so. Eulogies by Aubrey, my business, nothing is changing with that except my office in a corner is moving to a different office in a corner. You might have noticed a little pop up message on my website, eulogiesbyaubrey.com. It says something like, Due to personal time constraints, that I'll be taking a break til October 1st. That's just so that I have time to take care of the orders I do get, because I'm still getting orders. If you need help writing a eulogy, for your loved one, please still contact me, please still place your order, I can still help you. I just put that message on there - real life, just being honest - just so that I don't get too overwhelmed between work and moving. Did I say this? We're going to be moving Sunday. Today is Thursday, so give me four days. If you don't have four days, and you need help with a eulogy, I'm still here for you. My WiFi will be set up till Saturday night at the old house, so we're going to get it done for you if you need my help, so don't worry about that. Besides that, well that is it. We're just moving. If anyone's ever moved, you know it's real crazy for about week or two. We're excited. I'll show you my new office setup, wherever it ends up being at the new place. Anyways, I hope everyone's doing good. I hope everyone's having a lovely beginning of fall. It's getting a little bit less hot over here in Texas. I think we've been in the...by late afternoon, it's already in the 70s, so it's super nice. I'm almost cold when it's in the 70's; I'm so used to it being in the 100's or whatever, a sauna down in here. Anyways, this is a super fast video compared to my other ones. I hope everyone's been having a good week, whatever stage of life you're in, whatever season you're going through. I wish everybody the best, and I guess I'll sign off here. Bye!
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Just wanted to share a little Frequently Asked Questions update with everyone! I am always adding more info into Eulogies by Aubrey's FAQ tab, and decided it was a good idea to compend it all here for you to see in blog form. Let's take a look.  How much do you charge for a eulogy, and are there any additional fees? I charge a one-time fee of $125 for an approximately 1000-word eulogy. There are no additional fees and any revisions you require are included in this charge. How do I pay and when? I am able to accept all major cards as well as PayPal. I do request payment before I begin work on your eulogy, simply to protect against those few who would take advantage of the reverse process. How long will it take for me to speak my eulogy? Depending on how much information you provide, your finished eulogy will contain approximately 1000 words and should generally take between six and eight minutes to deliver. If you would prefer a longer or shorter eulogy, please let me know. How long will it take for you to finish my eulogy? I will work to complete your order and have it sent back to you within 48 hours. If you need it sooner or within a certain time frame, please let me know. How will you get my completed eulogy to me? I will send your eulogy to the email address that you provide me on the order form. I will send it as a message and also as an attachment so that you may print/utilize it at your convenience. If you do not receive your eulogy within 48 hours, please check your spam folder. It will be sent from eulogiesbyaubrey@gmail.com. Can I see one of your writing samples? Yes. Click here to be taken to my Eulogy Examples page. I've already written out parts of my eulogy, but need help putting it all together and making it sound good. Can you help with that? Absolutely! Many of my clients already have all of their thoughts on paper and simply need me to make it "speech" worthy. If this is you, send me what you have, and I'll take it from there. My loved one has not yet passed away, but it is imminent. I'm thinking of going ahead and starting the brainstorming process for their eulogy. Can you help? Yes. It's actually a fairly common - and even smart, I would say - move to try and get your thoughts down (things that you would like represented in your eulogy) ahead of your loved one's passing. Just let me know if this is your situation, and I am more than willing to assist you every step of the way. I have suffered the loss of a child. Are you still able to help? Yes. Please note that the form on my Order page is generally for adult loss. If you have suffered miscarriage, infant or child loss, please let me know in a message here. I have a special eulogy order form for you that I will send to you. I recently lost my pet and plan to hold a service in their memory. Would you be willing to write a eulogy for them? I would be honored. Our pets are our family and losing any one of them would be the same as losing a family member. Let me know in a message here, and I will send you a separate order form. At this time I cannot bring myself to fill out the eulogy order form. Can you still help? Absolutely... I understand that there are times when grief knows no words. There is an art to writing quality work with little information, and I'm confident in my ability to do so. Fill out what you can of the order form, send it to me and I will let you know if any additional information is needed. Or if you are more comfortable, email me at eulogiesbyaubrey@gmail.com. If you prefer to speak with me by phone, please leave your number in your email and I will contact you as soon as possible. I am not able to pay your fee right now, but I still need help with a eulogy. What can I do? I am very aware that not everyone has the means to hire a professional writer to assist them with their eulogy, or even family or friends who are able to help. But I believe that every loved one who has passed on deserves a quality eulogy. So I offer anyone who needs it a free eulogy template. Click here for more information. If you have questions or are in need of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me. What are your hours of operation? I am available 24/7/365*. For nighttime orders and email inquiries, please expect a response from me no later than the very next morning. *It is rare, but sometimes due to personal time constraints, I will need to step away from business for a short time. During these times, there will be a pop-up on my website letting you know, and you will still be able to contact me with any questions or concerns you have. Can I request a refund? I cannot provide a refund for a completed eulogy. However, if you have just paid and have decided not to use Eulogies by Aubrey, and in the case I have not already begun extensive work on your order, I would be happy to provide you with a full refund, no questions asked. TRANSCRIPT
Hey everybody, it's Aubrey with eulogiesbyaubrey.com. It's vlog postin' time. It's been about a month since I posted my last vlog, so I thought that this morning I would give y'all an idea of what I receive on my end of the process, when you order a eulogy through my website. What I get on my end of things with the notification of your order through my emails and all that kind of thing. I always think it's kind of interesting. I always wonder when I order a service or product from somebody, how it works on their end, the whole processing aspect from start to finish. I just want to clear that up for you in case you're wondering how it all goes down. It all goes down right here, this is my desk area. It goes all the way down there. This is in my home, so I work out of my home. It's usually covered with a whole lot more notes and shenanigans than this, but for the sake of this vlog I cleared it all off for you. Anyway, so I guess we can begin. So when you first search for a eulogy writing service, and you land on my page, this is the website you see. I'm using Mozilla; I know that's kind of old, I know a lot of people are using Chrome. I'm just kind of old school, I'm still using Mozilla so forgive me for that. Anyways, this is the home page of the website; you'll probably (when you land here) you might read through or skim through this in the very least, just to get the overall idea of my business, Eulogies by Aubrey, and what we do. Up here are all the different tabs for more information. About Me: there's an About Me tab; Eulogy Resources; Examples. The Eulogy Examples page: these are made-up examples. How I made these? I had members of my family basically go to the form on my Order page and create a made-up person and then send it to me as a test run. To see how the Order form worked and also so that I could get some examples written. So these three examples were made up from people in my family; my mom made up this guy, my brother made up Denison, my sister made up Marcob Lumpsy. It tells you right there that these are 100% invented, but it gives you an idea of my writing style. Then you've got the About Me page. If you want to read about me, you can also check out my LinkedIn down here, and some other social medias. I post a blog/vlog here about once a month, I need to do better, but at least once a month. Every few days or so I'll do Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest, so if y'all are interested in following me and keeping up with me there, you sure can, you're more than welcome to. This is where you'd find the vlog. When I first started Eulogies by Aubrey in March of 2019, I wrote out blogs. They go on and on and on, all the way back to 2019. I would write them once a week. I was really trying to get my SEO boosted, so that I could get my eulogy writing service into the top of the search engines. Which I'm happy to say, that with some help I received, that's finally a reality. So I'm able to reach more people who need me that way, which is excellent. This is my last vlog I did, so you if you want to keep up with me on YouTube, you can subscribe to me on YouTube, or you can come click here because I post them here too. I transcribe them too, so in case you need to read it, you can read it instead. But this last one was from a month ago, back in July, so it's about time I did another one. So I'll post this one probably today or tomorrow. I try to post them on Fridays, and today's Thursday, just to keep it all squared away for myself. Then I'll transcribe it again like I said for you. If you just have a question or need help with anything at all, you can just shoot me a message right here. It's super easy, it's just a regular old form and you can submit it. Or you can send me an email from your regular email to eulogiesbyaubrey@gmail.com and I'll get it. It all goes to the same place. So I will receive it and what happens when I get an order or an email from anybody, I get notified on my phone immediately, so I'll get it right away. And here...I just want to share this with you real quick. My sister Cassie - she is a super talented digital artist and I've part with her for commissioned pet portraits. You can read it if you want to but basically, if your pet passes away and you're planning on holding a memorial service (or even if you're not and you just want a nice digital painting for them that you can hang in your home), my sister can do that for you. I have several commissioned pieces by her, one is for my cat Gracie (she's still with us, she just did it for her). Anyways, if you go through my website, click right here to go to her page...let me show you her page. This is her page, and that's her baby Dante. Anyways, you can go to her page and see her amazing examples of the artwork she's done. This is my girl Gracie right here - she did her so beautiful. It almost looks like a photograph, it's how good she is. But anyways, if you type in the code "PET PORTRAIT", you can receive 10% off your order from her. If that's something you're interested in, I highly recommend her. Yes she's my sister, but obviously she's a really good artist, too, and I wouldn't tell you to go to her if she wasn't. She's amazing, so check out her website for sure. Okay, let's get to the nitty gritty. You need to order a eulogy, so you'll come right here, Eulogy Writing Service. It used to say, Order Here, or Order Form, or something like that; but this sounds a lot better. This is the page that you'll land on. Up here, all of this jazz is reiterating what you receive, how much it costs. I do charge $125. That's a pretty competitive rate compared to other eulogy services online. I do encourage you to check out my examples beforehand so you can get a sense of my writing style. And here it is right here. the eulogy order form. It's super simple. All you have to do is fill out the form right here as best as you can. You don't have to answer everything; some things won't really have an answer, and you can just leave it blank or put in N/A. Like, Did your loved one serve in the military? There's one question about that. If they didn't, you don't have to fill that out. You don't have to fill out personal stuff if you don't want to, but things like about their love story, the moral code they lived by, etc. helps me in the writing process to get an idea of who your loved one was and help me fill out their eulogy. It helps me figure out more about them and write their eulogy in the best way that I can. Now down here is the most important thing that I need to let you know about. There's a Submit button right here and there's a PayPal button down here. In the trial and error of setting up the business, it happened sometimes that people would skip over the Submit button, I guess because it's the same color scheme as the order form. But they would skip over Submit and click the Buy Now button, thinking that when they did that, they paid and submitted their data at the same time. Then they'd lose everything, and I would get a payment with no order form. So I have note in red right here. It's very important to Submit this first, and then after that, to click the Buy Now button. So let's do a test run really fast. My name...phone number...email address. I'm doing this with one hand, I'm not usually this slow at typing! Okay, let's give some answers real quick. That's a good answer...super deep. I'm going to be able to get a lot of information from this one. Okay. Then you come down here and you click Submit, and you'll see some circles like that for a few seconds, and then a message box should pop up, letting you know that it was submitted, to remind you to pay me, and that I received it and that I'll get back with you as soon as possible to let you know. When I receive your order form, I'll have it ready for you within 48 hours, most of the time well before that. After you do that, now you can come down here to the Buy Now button. This does go through PayPal but you don't have to have a PayPal account to use this. You basically click that, enter your stuff and then you can pay that way. Down here, there's a little note. Sometimes I'll get questions regarding the privacy of this form. This form is from a company called BoomForm, they're based in Europe. I pay for this form specifically because it's encrypted. So you don't ever have to worry about your information getting into the wrong hands, and anything you send to me through this form is only seen by you and me. I don't share it with anyone, not even my husband (I share work stuff with my husband but not regarding specific clients or their information). Or with anybody that I know or on any social media; so that's something that you can trust me with. Alright. I think I've gone over the basics of my website. Now I'm going to show you from my email, what it looks like when I get an order notification from you. Give me one second.... Okay, so I've gotten a notification on my phone that I've gotten a eulogy order. So I'll usually come on my laptop and I'll see it, and this is what the email will look like. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And then once I receive your BoomForm notification through my email, I'll get started on your eulogy order, and you'll have it back within that 48 hour mark. Usually well before that. Besides that, I wanted to let you know: with the nature of grief, and the nature of getting your thoughts out on paper (writing a eulogy), perhaps you might think of something that you meant to add to the order form but didn't remember to add at the time. Or something that you want to take out that you weren't totally sure you wanted to add it; you want it removed. Or anything like that, just send me an email. You can send me a hundred emails! Please don't worry that you're bothering me, I understand that it's just the nature of it; that's how it works. You won't be the only one who's done that. I might have to send you more than one email as well because I need to get your eulogy just right for you. That's just to be expected, so don't worry about that if you need to email me anything like that. Besides that, we've been having a good day here. The weather is a little bit overcast right now up here in Fort Worth. We have Hurricane Laura down on the coast but besides that, we've been having a beautiful day. I hope you've been having a beautiful day, a blessed day, and I will see you next time, bye! TRANSCRIPT
Hey, this is Aubrey with Eulogies by Aubrey. I'm here at Surfside Beach, Texas and I just wanted to share a little bit of the beauty with all of y'all. So pretty! Everyone's doing a really good job at social distancing, and they're requiring masks in all the restaurants. Everywhere you go you gotta wear your mask still. But it feels good to get away, to get out, to the beauty of nature. Personally I feel very close to God when I come to the ocean, just seeing the power of the waves. It's just kind of a moving experience. I just want to share it with everybody. See my husband and my little girl? I'm trying to see if you can see them over there. Hopefully you can see them; hopefully you can even hear me! This is her first time at the ocean. I brought a little leash so she doesn't run away from us. I have no shame about putting her on a leash. It's working and she feels independent. Today's my husband's birthday, so happy birthday Austin! Hopefully y'all can see them, because I had to turn my phone around. I've been getting a lot of inquiries on my website, eulogiesbyaubrey.com, just this past week. I'm just letting everyone know again that I'm here for y'all, if you have a need; if you need help writing a eulogy for a loved one who's passed away or...they don't have to be passed away yet. Maybe they're on hospice and it's imminent. You can go ahead and start thinking about what you want in your eulogy. I've some inquiries about that this week. You can do that, that's perfectly fine. I think it's a good idea, because you can get all your thoughts out before you're going to be having to do a bunch of other stuff. You can get all your thoughts out. You don't have to pay for the eulogy yet or anything, you can just send what you have to me. The rest, like dates and things like that, you can fill out later and then send that to me whenever the time comes. Just thought I'd let y'all know that. I'm here for all your writing needs, eulogy writing needs. That's what I do, so no matter where I'm at, even if I'm out of town or whatever, I'm still here for you. There's a ship way off in the distance, probably an oil rig or something. Ooh, there's a barge over there. Hopefully y'all can see that. Austin's letting me take a little break so I can get some filming done. It's so bright! Really bright. We're at Surfside, it's a little ways down from Galveston. There's not as many people here. My family's been coming here for years, so we really enjoy it. Always go to the same places, keep things real simple. TRANSCRIPT
Hey everybody, this is Aubrey with eulogiesbyaubrey.com. In my last video, my first ever vlog, I said that in my next vlog I was going to be talking a little bit about my career history, jobs that I've held, qualifications in writing and the funeral industry, and all that kind of stuff. So that if you're considering hiring somebody - hiring me - to help you with your eulogy then you would have that information to help you make a decision on whether or not you want to hire me. I think that's important that you have that information if you're considering seeking assistance with your...[Gracie the Cat interjection]. Oh hi! Hi Gracie. This is my cat Gracie. She's 18 (in human years!) She kind of lives in my room. Okay. So let's begin. I'm going to be begin back in 2012 when I first started professionally writing. 2012-2014 I worked for a company near to where I was living in Texas called FYI. They're in Grand Prairie. I did TV guide descriptions, editing TV guide online platforms, that kind of thing. It was pretty interesting; I really enjoyed that while I did that. That was 2012-2014. In 2014 I left to join an attorney's office, where I learned a lot about SEO - I'd never heard of it before - (search engine optimization) which focuses on key words and that kind of stuff to help websites gain in popularity in search engines, specifically in Google. The attorney's office? He dealt in traffic tickets - kinda boring. But I did that for 2 years. While I was working there, I married my husband Austin. That was in 2015. He needed to finish college; he was almost done. He had one class left that he needed to finish, so we got him through that last class and he graduated. After that, I said, I want to fulfill my dream of going to mortuary school and graduating from mortuary school. At that time, we finally had the means for me to be able to do that - or I did, because he was able to support me while I went to school. So before I started college in the summer of 2016, I got my first-ever job at a funeral home in Arlington, where we were living at the time. I really liked it. It was for a corporate funeral home - SCI, Service Corporation International. I had no idea about any corporation stuff or the difference between corporations and family-owned funeral homes and all the differences there, but I sure did learn fast the differences. I enjoyed corporate work. It was very competitive...I didn't like that part of it. I will say, in the Summer of 2016, I did start at the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service. When I was hired at the corporate funeral home, I was hired under the promise, I guess, that I was going to get to transfer to the care center (at the time I wanted to get into embalming). I didn't ever really want to be a funeral director - directress. I wanted to work at the care center and help with the embalmings and that kind of thing. Long story short, the management that hired me was not the management that let me go. In the corporate world, management turns over fairly quickly. Oh Gracie [Gracie the Cat interjection] Hi Gracie. Long story short, SCI and other corporate funeral industries are for some people and not for others. I thought they were for me until they let me go. Long story short, if you have a family member who has passed away, and you're going to be turning to a Dignity provider, and SCI funeral home, I will say that they do treat their families very, very well. They have very high standards for how their employees are required to treat their families [toddler making noise in background] My husband is watching my daughter...she wants to come in here, but she can't 'cause Mommy's working! Long story short, in September of 2016 after I started mortuary school, I was let go from that funeral home because they needed somebody who was able to work the hours that I wasn't able to work anymore because I started going to mortuary school. So they had to hire another "apprentice" as they're called in the industry. And I was left to put all my attention on mortuary school at the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service. In October of 2016, I decided that I wanted to try and get back into a funeral home. This time, I chose a family-owned funeral home in Waxahachie, Texas, which is about 20-25 minutes south of Dallas. I will say that working in a family-run funeral home in a small town is a lot of work. It's 24-hour on-call. Long story short, I wasn't able to place the attention and hours that I needed at that job, while at the same time all the studying that goes into mortuary school. All the hours of studying that you need to make good grades and pass mortuary school. So I worked there probably a month at the most, and I had to leave because it was just too much. I remember one night I was up there till four in the morning working, and then I had to drive back to Arlington. It was getting to be too much, so that was the end of that. After that, I focused only on mortuary school, and in the September the following year, September 2017 (at DIFS it was an accelerated program - a blessing and a curse) I graduated and I was so happy. I wanted to get back into funeral service. Back then, I really wanted to be an embalmer like I said. I've learned a lot of stuff since then and I've since changed my mind about that. But yeah, I got back into SCI, corporate funeral service to work at their care center in Arlington, where again we were living at the time (we're in Fort Worth now). I did that from October to December of 2017. [Gracie the Cat interjection] This girl hears me talking and just wants to be petted. I have three other cats, by the way. I just got them. But Gracie's the oldest, so she lives in our room now for the most part. Which is just fine with her because she can't stand other cats. So long, long, long story short, without going into too many details, my husband and I decided to try and start our family. I know there's lots of studies that say that you can carry out embalming safely while pregnant, but I didn't want to risk anything like that. Formaldehyde, heavy lifting, all different kinds of diseases and stuff like that that you're around when you're handling decedents. So I quit my job at the care center, I got pregnant, and had my daughter in September of 2018. In March of 2019, I wanted to keep my foot in the funeral industry, but I didn't want to leave [the house] because I had my baby at home. I wanted to work at home somehow. So I put two and two together...I put my writing history and also my history in funeral service together. And I thought eulogies! Boom. I probably thought obituaries first, and then I thought eulogies. So I did some research and it turns out, it's actually a thing online. There's several online businesses that cater to the funeral industry through eulogies. So I put two and two together and came up with Aubrey's Eulogies, and then I came up with Eulogies by Aubrey, and that's the one that I liked the best. I've been writing been writing for Eulogies by Aubrey since March of 2019 and I absolutely love it. I love that it's all online (or on the phone if you prefer talking on the phone). I love that I'm able to stay at home while still doing my part in the funeral industry. It's where my passion is. I feel like my calling is there, and it's always been there my whole life. Maybe in another video I'll talk more about that, I don't know. I need to come up with a topic list or something to keep y'all interested in me. So we've been going on for over a year now. We're not showing any signs of stopping. I'm just really enjoying it. So that's a little, shortened, condensed version of my history in funeral service and my writing career, if you want to call it that. Besides that, I'm a certified crematory operator, certified cremation arranger, have my certificate in burials at sea from New England Burials at Sea. Someday I might go back and get my funeral director's license, you never know, it could happen. But even if I did that, I would still keep this business. It's just a nice service to have; it would go nicely with that. I do send out my business card and I email postcards to funeral homes in my area. I need to send some emails. I'm thinking of getting my name out there to some pet funeral homes. I don't think we have any around here. But maybe in California or something? I'll have to get online and look. I think that'd be nice too, because pets are our family too. That's it for this video, I hope you enjoyed. Sorry there's two videos; my phone popped up a notification while I was filming and messed up my other video. I'll see you in my next vlog. I don't know what it's going to be about yet, but I'll see you then. Bye! TRANSCRIPT
Hi everybody, my name is Aubrey Bauer. I'm the writer behind eulogiesbyaubrey.com. I thought it'd be good for me to make a video for you, so you can meet the face behind the person who's going to be writing your eulogy. If you found me through a Google search, or you're in need of a eulogy writer, I hope this video helps you get to know me on a more personal basis, kind of one on one, like an interview; especially if you're ordering through my form and we're not going to be speaking on the phone, I think a video like this could help you get to know me. Hear my voice, see my face, that kind of thing. A little bit about me, qualification-wise: it's kind of long...you can check out my LinkedIn! I want to keep this video short, kind of like a quick intro to me and to eulogiesbyaubrey.com. I've been encouraged to share - you won't find it on my website - my grief story. I have a couple of reasons that I don't want to share particular details or stories about my own journeys, people that I've lost in my life. I have a couple of reasons for that. A) I don't want to hurt people in my family who share that loss with me, and they go to my website and see the stories and memories get dredged up...I don't want to do that. B) I think that everyone has dealt with great loss in life. Everybody has lost someone that they love and miss. Even it's not a person or a pet, it's loss of another dimension, like a job or a home. Loss comes in many shapes and forms and I think that we can all connect on an intimate level in that way. To keep things simple, I know grief, I've been there. Like I say on my website, I haven't been where you are personally...but I've been where you are. I've lost people that I've known and loved to cancer and other diseases, murder, suicide, car accidents...I've been there. I think it's important, when you're going to be hiring somebody who's going to be knowing the details about the person who you love that you've lost, hearing their life's story...that's very personal, that's very intimate. I think that you deserve to see me and to hear me and to know that I have experienced loss and grief, and I live with it ever day. I'm here for you. I'm a writer; you're going to be hiring me to write your eulogy. But I'm also a person. I'm not a corporation, I'm not a faceless entity, I'm here for you. So whether that be through email or text or a phone call, or just the messaging on my website, I want to be here for you. Professionally, I do have my professional career in writing, professional career in funeral service. Again, go check out my LinkedIn! Give me a follow on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and now YouTube. I'm getting all over the place because I really want to expand my business, to reach more people that need help writing a eulogy. Because you've found my website, because you've lost somebody that you love, you need help; you're going to be speaking the eulogy at the funeral service. That's a big deal, and that can be scary. Reach out to me. You don't have to hire me to reach out to me. I can still help you. If you don't have the money to hire me - I do have the lowest rates...I check my competition constantly, to be honest, and I do have the lowest rates online right now - I realize that everybody can't afford $125. So I have created a eulogy template, if you would like to utilize that. Go to my website, it's in my blog section, also in the Eulogy Resources tab. It says Free Eulogy Template. Please go there, take a look at that, and it that still doesn't meet your needs then just contact me and we can work something out. So, how can I help you? You've heard about me a little bit, I want to hear about you, about your loved one. Tell me about them. I don't know when you're watching this video, but right now it's May 20th (I think?), 2020, and we're in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic. Life is different right now, life is hard. Funerals are starting to take place again in some places, but they're different. Funeral service is going to be different going forward. I want to be here for you as you navigate that. I do have history in funeral service; I've worked in both corporate and family-owned funeral homes and mortuaries. I understand how they operate on a pre-Covid-19 level. I do know that it's different now, it's going to be different going forward and I want to be here for you at least with the eulogy aspect of it. A little bit more about me personally. I'm a Christian. That is something that is very intrinsic, it's in my bones, it's in my heart. I couldn't separate from it if I try. That said, to me, as a Christian, no matter where you are coming from or what you have (or lack of faith, if you don't believe in God), I want to be here for you! I want to love you and help you write the eulogy that honors your loved one and the life that they lived. Maybe you are religious or a person of faith, and your loved one wasn't. To me, that's okay. I still want to be here for you. Reach out to me, send me a message. If you need to talk on the phone, I perfectly fine with talking on the phone. Getting a little bit more personal, I have Asperger's Syndrome, which is a form of high-functioning autism. I share this with you not as an excuse but it is an explanation if I'm a little bit awkward on the phone. Some days are worse than others, some are better than others! But if you're a person who does better speaking over the phone, I am perfectly 100% willing to speak over the phone with you. If I'm a little bit awkward at first, I'm just telling you why. That's a little about me. Send me a message and tell me about you. If you're following me on Instagram or Facebook, hope this video is interesting to you! I'm thinking of doing this as part of my blogs. I'm a mom, I have a toddler, I do some freelancing work on the side. It's kind of hard to find time for my blogs, but I know that it's really important for SEO (search engine optimization) for people who need me so that they can find me on Google. So I think I may be turning these vlogs into blogs. I don't know if I'll do a transcript or not on my blog - I probably will. I think that might be a good idea, because they're more convenient. This one's pretty fast, it's running almost ten minutes. I'm going to end it here. Like I said, if you want to know more details about my qualifications, the jobs I've held, you can go to LinkedIn. I'd love to hear from you, comment down below, subscribe to my YouTube. Hopefully I'll be making more of these videos. Probably in my next video (it'll probably be longer), I'm thinking I'll go over my background more - how and why I started Eulogies by Aubrey, how I got into funeral business to begin with, how I first got into writing...but that's another video for another time! I'll leave it at this. Have a beautiful day. If you're just starting your grief journey, remember that you're not alone. If you feel like you're alone, especially during these times, you're not alone. I am here for you, people are here for you. If you need quick help, you can go to my Resources Page. And you know what? Eulogies by Aubrey is available 24/7. I do sleep at night, but I wake up and I'll see your message if you need to send me a message. So keep me in mind. I'll try to end this as un-awkwardly as possible, so bye! “Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.” C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed  Aubrey Bauer I am a wife, mother and Christ follower with dual passions for writing and death care. I have years of professional writing and editing experience, and have worked in both corporate and family-owned funeral homes in the DFW area. I am married to the love of my life, Austin, and together we share a beautiful daughter.
In 2017, I graduated from the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service, where I studied funeral directing, embalming and restorative art, counseling, grief psychology, composition and public speaking as it relates to funeral service. I hold certifications in cremation arrangement and operation (ICCFA), as well as burial at sea (NEBAS), and am also a guest writer for US Urns Online. When I'm not writing, I love spending time with my family and friends, traveling, listening to music, reading, and gardening. Learn more about me and my qualifications on LinkedIn! Also follow me on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest...I update there quite frequently :) For any questions or thoughts you may have, feel free to reach out to me today. -Aubrey  Our website recently underwent a little construction! When navigating the new style of our eulogy service website, Eulogies by Aubrey, you'll notice that many things remain the same as they always have. The overall look and layout hasn't really changed that much. The main changes we've made are almost unnoticeable, but significant, all in an attempt to make the site more personal, personable, and user- friendly for those who are seeking help writing a eulogy for a loved one. We've prioritized pages and tabs to minimize disarray and maximize user-ability, enhanced our Eulogy Resources page, updated links throughout our blog and made the overall interface easier for visitors to navigate and find what they need. Perhaps most importantly, we've updated our SEO in an effort to reach more of the people who really need our help. So check it out and let us know what you think! We have already received comments and emails offering suggestions and other helpful info...so please feel free to share any tips and ideas that you have as well. Eulogies by Aubrey is still a young, growing business and we appreciate our readers' comments. And just to reiterate, concerning COVID-19... Fears over Coronavirus, implementation of social distancing, and other measures being put into place to combat further spread of the virus are affecting the funeral industry in unprecedented ways. While it may seem that everything is being closed, cancelled, or postponed (even funeral services), rest assured that Eulogies by Aubrey will remain open 24/7 in an effort to help in any way we can. We are able to do so by operating entirely online/by phone.
Are you trying to plan a funeral in the middle of COVID-19? Are you wanting to complete a eulogy for your loved one but are running low on time or energy? I want to help. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you may have. Note: If during these uncertain times you are experiencing financial hardship, but you are still needing assistance writing a eulogy for your loved one, do not hesitate to reach out with your concerns. I believe that every loved one deserves a quality eulogy, no matter the circumstance, and I am here to help make that happen. -Aubrey A quick note to my valued clients in light of current events... Fears over Coronavirus, implementation of social distancing, and other measures being put into place to combat further spread of the virus are affecting the funeral industry in unprecedented ways. While it may seem that everything is being closed, cancelled, or postponed (even funeral services), rest assured that Eulogies by Aubrey will remain open 24/7 in an effort to help in any way we can. We are able to do so by operating entirely online/by phone. Are you trying to plan a funeral in the middle of COVID-19? Are you wanting to complete a eulogy for your loved one but are running low on time or energy? I want to help. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you may have. Note: If during these uncertain times you are experiencing financial hardship, but you are still needing assistance writing a eulogy for your loved one, do not hesitate to reach out with your concerns. I believe that every loved one deserves a quality eulogy, no matter the circumstance, and I am here to help make that happen. Please take care, Aubrey Bauer  Eulogies by Aubrey
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