Coping With Pet Loss During the Holiday Season
The holidays can feel heavy when a beloved pet is no longer with you. Here are compassionate, practical ways to honour their memory, navigate grief, and care for your heart this season.
When Home Feels Too Quiet: Coping With Pet Loss in Retirement
When your days once revolved around the gentle rhythm of your pet’s companionship, their loss can make time feel empty and the house unbearably quiet. This post explores ways to cope with that silence, rediscover purpose, and honour the love that remains.
Masks We Wear in Grief: Coping With Pet Loss Around Halloween
When everyone else is celebrating costumes and candy, grief can feel even heavier. Let’s talk about the invisible mask many grieving pet parents wear—and how to find small moments of truth, comfort, and connection this Halloween.
Pet Loss and Sleepless Nights: Finding Rest Through Grief
Grief can make nights feel impossibly long, especially when your pet’s quiet presence once comforted you in the dark. Here’s how to find small ways to rest, even when sleep doesn’t come easily.
When Grief Circles Back: Coping With Waves of Pet Loss
Grief doesn’t move in a straight line. Even long after losing a beloved pet, memories or milestones can stir fresh pain. These waves of grief are normal. Here’s how to meet them with compassion and continue honouring the love that remains.
How to Handle Well-Meaning but Hurtful Comments About Your Loss
People often mean well, but their words can sting when you’re grieving a beloved pet. Here’s how to navigate comments that hurt, set gentle boundaries, and surround yourself with understanding support.
Why You Might Feel Worse Before You Feel Better
Grieving a beloved pet can feel confusing when the pain suddenly returns more strongly after you thought you were coping. You may wonder if you’re going backwards — but you’re not. Grief often feels worse before it feels better, and understanding why can help you ride the waves with more compassion and less fear.
What Grief After Pet Loss Really Feels Like (And Why You're Not Broken)
If you’re grieving the loss of a beloved pet, you may be feeling things you didn’t expect. You might feel like you’re falling apart. You may feel exhausted, angry, numb, or overwhelmed by waves of sadness that show up without warning.
And worst of all, you might be wondering if something is wrong with you for feeling this way.
Let me say this gently but clearly:
You’re not broken. You’re grieving.
And grieving the loss of a pet is real, valid, and often deeply painful.