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M- Memories 

If you’re anything like me... you have mixed emotions when Facebook posts “memories from 2 years ago” on your page. 

Some will be funny and will be reposted, and some make you crumble and you think, ‘how did I manage to keep going?’ 

We can be reminded...

💝📝L- Letter of Love 📝💝

Many people recommend writing their loved one a letter. 
In it, you can express the love and joy you felt while that pet was alive, and also the sadness of the unmet dreams, hopes and expectations. 

It is a form of telling your loved one ho...

K - Keep Busy

It’s one of the Grief Recovery Method 6 Myths of Grief. 

It is only natural to want to distract yourself by Keeping Busy - and doing other activities when you would have spent that time with your pet.

It is OK to do this, as long as it is not becoming...

J -Jewellery

My original post was going to be ‘just a..’ but it got me too fired up. So I decided on Jewellery instead.

There are so many options now days to honour your pet’s memory. And the lovely thing about jewellery is that it makes you feel that little bit closer t...

I - I’m fine!

Whether your day has been amazing or terrible, the answer is always the same: I’m fine, thanks. It satisfies the enquirer that they can move on with your chat.

Most grievers have been taught to plaster on a smile and say "I'm fine" when they really aren't.

D...

Handbook. 

The Grief Recovery Method Pet Loss handbook to be exact. 

It’s no secret, I recommend this book to everyone I meet who is going through a pet loss journey. 

It just makes sense! The book has a few ‘homework’ modules which is really important to complete,...

G: Guilt.. The big one. The topic most people struggle with. (And another long one) 

As I briefly mentioned in the last topic, the 5 stages of grief, guilt comes up as part of bargaining. The ‘What if’s and if only’s’, or the ‘could haves, would haves or should haves’...

F - Five Stages of Grief - this is a long one. 

Depending what you google... there are 5, 7 or up to 11 different stages of Grief 

Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, a Swiss psychiatrist, first introduced her five stage grief model in her book On Death and Dying. 

Dr Kübler-Ros...

The nasty E word. Euthanasia. 

The hardest decision a Pet Parent will ever have to make. Ideally, most people I speak to would prefer their pet to ‘go on their own terms’, to die peacefully in their sleep. Sadly this rarely happens. 

Having to make a choice for our p...

D - Dreams, Hopes and Expectations. 

When a life is cut short too soon, whether it be from an accident or an illness, or a pet goes missing, we are left holding on to the dreams, hopes and expectations. The letting go of a future that will never be. 

In my world, dre...