This is a brief grief support guide we created to help out during the first few weeks of grief.
All the time we spent together. In our grief over our pets, we are more alike than we are similar. In his book, The Loss of a Pet, Dr. Wallace Sife talks about the 5 common stages of grief that many people go through during the loss of a pet. Not everyone goes through each …
All the time we spent together. Many times, when people remember lost loved ones, they are filled with over- whelming sadness—so much so that many people don’t want to remember or talk about them because they fear being swallowed up by grief. In some ways this fear is true; we will never stop missing our …
We learn how to grieveby watching our parents. Just like adults, when children are not allowed to grieve or talk about their feelings, they hold all of that sadness, guilt, and anger inside. And, just like adults, it will eventually surface in other, more destructive ways. Be open and honest with children about what has …
Grief is hard on our bodies. Grief is hard work. It’s hard on our bodies; it robs us of ability to eat and sleep, it disrupts our normal routines, and it destroys our peace of mind. Even when we do sleep, when we wake in the morning, we remember all over again. Chronic fatigue and …
A bond that dates back centuries. Many people have told us that losing their pet hurt worse than losing a family member. To us, this statement makes perfect sense. We grow so close to our pets over the course of all the time we spent together. We learn how to commu- nicate with them without …
Your grief is normal and natural. Grief is the normal and natural reaction to losing someone or something that we care about. There is nothing wrong with how sad we feel when we lose a pet. We don’t deal with death and loss well as a society. Many people find it hard to talk to …
