Death & Bereavement
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Losing a Pet: Coping with the death of your beloved animal
“One of the best books of its kind.” Kevin Spurgeon, Dignity Pet Crematorium. The loss of a pet can hit us as hard as the loss of any close friend. Yet pet bereavement is so little talked about that along with grief and pain, animal lovers may find themselves having to deal with feelings of confusion and even embarrassment at the strength of their reaction.For anyone grieving the loss of a pet, or facing up to having a pet put down, this short book aims to fill the gap. ‘Losing a Pet’ offers practical guidance, emotional support, and, above all, the reassurance of finding that you are not alone.For those supporting someone through pet loss, either personally or in a professional capacity, the book’s blend of compassion and practicality will help the healing process.CONTENTS: the place of pets in our hearts and lives; understanding why we feel so strongly; the stages of loss; dealing with feelings of shock, denial, anger, blame and guilt; having a pet put down; children and loss; when a pet goes missing; getting more help; healing yourself; commemorating and celebrating your pet; further resources.Read more
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Losing My Best Friend: Thoughtful support for those affected by dog bereavement or pet loss
“Remember me with tears and laughter. Remember me though it hurts to do so, because the pain you have is equal to the love we shared. There is no goodbye if you carry me in your heart. Remember all the joy we shared, because there was so much of it for both of us.” Herbie Longfellow Alderdice
Are you a dog owner who is in the process of losing your best friend to illness? Or have you lost your beloved pet and you’re struggling to get over them?
Pet bereavement is tough. Not everyone can, or will, sympathise with you.
After losing her beloved boy Herbie, Jeannie Wycherley found herself lost in grief, struggling to find her way through it.
Too many friends and acquaintances told her she’d ‘get over it’ because he was ‘just a dog’ however, to Jeannie, Herbie was so much more than that. A loving companion. A soulmate. A true character. Her best friend.
She found that the more she articulated her feelings around other pet owners, the more she came to understand just how many of those people had been similarly locked deep in secret mourning for a furry friend. Feelings of guilt, overwhelm, exhaustion—even shame—were common.
And so, she wrote about her experiences. The result, Losing my Best Friend: Thoughtful Support for those Affected by Dog Bereavement or Pet Loss offers practical advice about what to do when your pet passes away, including tips on helping your children or other pets cope with the loss, designing your own ceremony to celebrate your dog’s life, and creating memorials.
In these pages Jeannie Wycherley has created a loving tribute to Herbie and delivers support with a light and loving touch that aims to validate the feelings you’re experiencing.
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Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan’s Little Guide to Pet Loss and Grief
“Sweet, Loving, Touching. A heartfelt book to heal from the loss of your beloved.”
“A little treasure filled with hope and love.”
“The best book ever to heal pet loss!”
Written from your pet’s perspective, every page in this book is full of love and loyalty from beyond the grave. Let the voice of your best friend guide you to the other side of grief. You will never look at life or death the same way again!
Author Kate McGahan brings 35 years of clinical hospice and end-of-life care into this powerful and life-changing book. What will you do when I must leave? How do you prepare? Why do some of us suffer? What happens when we die? Why don’t some people understand? Based on the wisdom and teachings of our favorite four-legged grief counselor, Jack McAfghan, this book is designed to bring comfort and inspiration at your time of personal loss. As the appointed Rainbow Bridge representative, Jack will answer many questions you have asked and many questions you have not yet thought to ask.
Learn the secret language that will help you communicate with your pets no matter where they are. He walks you gently through the five stages of grief. He will prepare you for the inevitable, teach you to make peace with decisions you may ultimately have to make, and help you to understand that the end of this life is not the end of life at all. Learn to face transitions courageously, rid yourself of guilt and blame, find out how much you are deeply loved and strengthen your faith in the fact that life never ends and that love never dies.
When the time comes to grieve the loss of a pet, you are never prepared; it’s never long enough. This little book will help you know how to make the right decisions, how to stay strong in your time of loss, and how to move forward by using the power of your love instead of the limits of your mind.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
(1) IF YOU WERE A FLOWER
(2) DEATH: FEARED & MISUNDERSTOOD
(3) NO LIFE WITHOUT LOSS
(4) NOT ‘JUST’ A PET
(5) FACING THE INEVITABLE
(6) ANTICIPATORY GRIEF
(7) PRE-GRIEF
(8) END OF LIFE DECISIONS
(9) PREPARING FOR THE PASSAGE
(10) “THE APPOINTMENT”/ Euthanasia
(11) AFTERSHOCKS
(12) THE PROCESS OF GRIEF
(13) WAKING FROM THE DREAM
(14) SHOCK/DENIAL
(15) ASHES AND MEMORIALS
(16) TEARS AND FEARS
(17) ANGER
(18) COMPLICATED GRIEF
(19) BARGAINING
(20) WHO TO BLAME
(21) SUICIDE
(22) DEPRESSION
(23) THERE IS NO DEATH
(24) YOU CAN HEAL WHAT YOU FEEL
(25) ACCEPTANCE
(26) GROWING PAINS
(27) ANNIVERSARIES
(28) THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART
(29) THE GIFT OF GRIEF
(30) DREAMS
(31) SIGNS
(32) HOW TO TELL THE CHILDREN & COMFORT YOUR REMAINING PETS
(33) LIFE BEYOND GRIEF
(35) ONLY HUMAN
(36) GRIEF SUPPORT
“No other book helped me to work through the loss of my dog like this one did. I fell in love with Jack and I was able to create a whole new relationship with my angel on the Heaven on the other side of Rainbow Bridge. Thank you Jack and Kate!”
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Pet Grief: How to Cope Before & After
There is no best way of dealing with pet grief however, this book is a first of its kind…
Apart from such useful help and advice, there are easy to follow techniques that you can use on yourself to help ease your heartache and stress straightaway.
Jackie Weaver is one of the UK leading TV Animal Communicators. Helping with pet grief is her passion and she knows how pet loss can be so heart breaking.
Jackie has appeared on several times on ITV This Morning in different formats including as an expert helping people experiencing Pet Grief. She has been on thePaul O’Grady show, Loose Women, The Big Questions.
Through her amazing work and experience, she has gained a great deal of knowledge from animals themselves and in other educational ways. To benefit from the wisdom in this book, you do not need to believe in animal communication, or even the afterlife, just follow the thought processes to help ease your heart and mind.
That pain of losing a pet is real but what if you could grieve without the unnecessary extra unhelpful thoughts? Imagine if you could simply grieve whole-heartedly for your animal without it being clouded by other thoughts and feelings that are not serving you well? This book is a guide to help you see things in a clearer way. To grieve is normal but the burden of pain can be lightened.
This will help you through so, once again, you will be able to recall those wonderful memories without guilt or unnecessary worry.Read more
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Signs: The secret language of the universe
A modern guide to connecting with the other side, Signs is full of stories of hope. It teaches us how to recognise and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides, by a renowned psychic medium.
Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us. She possesses an incredible gift: the ability to communicate with loved ones who have passed, convey messages of love and healing, and impart a greater understanding of our interconnectedness. Though her abilities are exceptional, they are not unique, and that is the message at the core of this book. Understanding ‘the secret language of the universe’ is a gift available to all. As we learn to ask for and recognise signs from the other side, we will start to find meaning where before there was only confusion, and see light in the darkness. We may decide to change paths, push toward love, pursue joy, and engage with life in a whole new way.
In Signs, Jackson is able to bring the mystical into the everyday. She relates stories of people who have experienced uncanny revelations and instances of unexplained synchronicity, as well as others drawn from her own experience. There’s the lost child who appears to her mother as a deer that approaches her unhesitatingly at a highway rest stop; the name written on a dollar bill that lets a terrified wife know that her husband will be okay; the Elvis Presley song that arrives at the exact moment of Jackson’s own father’s passing; and many others. This is a book that is inspiring and practical, deeply comforting and wonderfully motivational, in asking us to see beyond ourselves to a more magnificent universal design.
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£13.10£14.20Signs: The secret language of the universe
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The Art of Grieving: The Beauty Behind Victorian Mourning Customs
Grief transcends time.While it can be said that the Victorians were obsessed with death, and some of their rituals may seem morbid and garish by today’s standards, there is something to be said about the Victorians and how they were prepared for the day when a loved one might die.
Get to know some of the misunderstood mourning customs from the Victorian Era, including jewelry made of human hair, strict fashion guidelines, and even post-mortem photography. Journey back to the American Civil War, and get to know Mary Todd Lincoln and Queen Victoria–two women who publicly grieved for their husbands. You’ll soon come to realize that the Victorians were not obsessed with death… but they did accept it… Something we still struggle to do today.
Join the curator of The Traveling Museum of Memento Mori as she introduces you to the history of Victorian mourning customs as well as the customs themselves. You’ll learn that there can be beauty in grief and death and that we might be able to learn how to mourn from the Victorians, even in the 21st Century.
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The Golden Cord: A Story of Pet Loss and Grief for kids
Death, grief and loss are a natural part of life that can be difficult topics to address. Often pet loss is a child’s first personal experience with death and it’s okay to feel so sad when they lose their best friend . Children who grow up with pets as part of their family learn that animals don’t live as long as people.That loving a pet is often their favorite hello and their hardest goodbye. Like people sometimes they get sick or hurt so badly that it can mean having to say goodbye when you don’t want to. This tender story of life and death and the magic golden cord is the perfect way to make the topic of pet loss or any other kind of loss a little less scary for kids (and grownups) and also explains the amazing afterlife of animals that willl bring more joy than sadness.
This book told by Cooper the dog and Bella the cat (change to your pet’s names) will bring hope and comfort to their broken hearts, that they are only gone from sight and that death is not the end. That their pets will always have a special place in their hearts and that even though they are gone from sight, they will live on in spirit. Specifically written to address children’s fear of death, grief and separation anxiety. The rhyming verse and imaginative illustrations provide a whimsical view of what beloved pets are doing now they have their angel wings.
In today’s world where there is so much uncertainty and fear, The Golden Cord delivers a particularly compelling message that we are never alone, that grief and all the thoughts, feelings and big emotions that come up are a natural and welcome response to loss. That grief is not a problem to be solved but a space that needs to be witnessed. This book is being used by parents, caregivers, councillors, teachers, grief groups, veterinarians, death doulas and psychologists to have healing conversations about life, death, any type of bereavement including pet loss, separation anxiety issues (otherwise known as the sense of existential ‘aloneness’). A must-have title for a pragmatic understanding of the power of LOVE that will strengthen the spiritual and emotional intelligence for both children and adults.
There are places in the book for your child to add photos of their pet, to draw how they feel and where they are holding grief and sadness in their body. It also includes questions you can ask them, meditations and other tools to help both you and your child through every stage of grief and pet loss.
This kids pet loss book is suitable for ages 3-8 years old and all religious and spiritual beliefs, The Golden Cord gives you wiggle room to add your own reference to heaven, crossing the rainbow bridge, angels and the afterlife. The primary theme is LOVE. That LOVE is what connects us, heart, to heart to everyone and everything including those who have passed over and that they are always looking over us, guiding us and sending us signs from the spirit world. Parents and children everywhere who are looking for comfort, reassurance and reaffirmation of the transcendent power of love, to bind, connect and comfort us through those inevitable times when life challenges us!
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