Honoring Our Animals: 365 Meditations for Healing After Pet Loss

Discover a personalized path to recovery with Honoring Our Animals, your daily source of solace and strength throughout the year.

Losing a beloved pet is a profound experience, filled with deep emotions and challenging moments. Honoring Our Animals is your steadfast companion on this journey, offering 365 entries of consistent guidance and support. Each day, find a dose of comfort and a touchstone to help structure your grieving process, ensuring you never feel alone.

This comprehensive and compassionate guide addresses a wide range of emotional experiences, from anticipatory grief to sudden loss. It provides relevant and heartfelt advice tailored to your specific situation. With practical exercises and tools, you’ll gain actionable steps toward healing, helping you navigate your grief with understanding and care. Some common situations the book addresses:

• ＂My pet has just received a terminal diagnosis. What can I possibly do to prepare?＂
• ＂The loss I am experiencing is more painful than any I have experienced.＂
• ＂The people in my life don’t understand the depth of my sorrow.＂
• ＂I feel guilty about re-homing a pet.＂
• ＂I just experienced an unexpected and tragic loss.＂
• ＂I’m grappling with behavioral euthanasia.＂
• ＂I don’t know how to go on without my beloved.＂

You might not see it right away, but it is possible to recover from the loss of your companion animal.

Acting as a supportive listener, this book affirms your feelings and provides a safe, nonjudgmental space to express your grief. It honors the profound bond between humans and their pets, recognizing the significant impact of your loss. By offering a blend of different approaches, Honoring Our Animals caters to the unique nature of each grief journey, guiding you in acknowledging the strengths and gifts of your relationship with your pet.

By offering daily insights and exercises, Honoring Our Animals stands as a steadfast companion for those mourning the loss of a pet, providing comfort, validation, and practical support every day of the year.

Beth Bigler is a pet loss Grief counselor, educator, and author. She is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and empowering voices for normalizing companion animal grief. She’s dedicated to validating, nurturing, and supporting grievers in both her private practice and through content creation.

She’s known for her inspiring daily posts in her Instagram community, @honoringouranimals and is a sought-after expert for TV, podcasts, articles, and other media. She works closely with animal care and veterinary professionals and other pet industry brands for grief training and awareness.

Before she became a grief counselor, she enjoyed a 20-year career as a film/television/stage writer, producer, and college instructor.

The anticipated and eventual death of her soulmate cat, Arnie, transformed her life’s mission. Beth is double-certified as a Grief Counselor (GC-C). She is also a certified Pet Loss Grief Support Specialist (PGSS-C) by the American Academy of Grief Counseling, certified as an end-of-life animal companion doula from the University of Vermont, and a trained pet chaplain. She holds degrees from New York University (BFA - Dramatic Writing) and Goddard College (MFA - Creative Writing).

Learn more at www.honoringouranimals.com.