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A Pet Loss Grief Support Community
A Guide for the one-year pet transition anniversary
Marking One Year Without Your Beloved is a gentle guide for people approaching the one-year anniversary of a beloved pet’s death. Many expect this milestone to feel easier and are surprised when it doesn’t.
This PDF offers grounded support drawn from lived experience, including practical tips, emotional validation, and space to reflect. It’s not about fixing grief or moving on. It’s about helping you get through a tender time with a little more steadiness and care.
This guide is for you if the one-year mark feels heavy, confusing, or harder than you expected.
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Judith Eve Rosen, LCSW, is a licensed therapist, writer, and advocate specializing in pet loss and the human-animal bond. With over two decades of experience supporting individuals and families through grief, Judith blends practical guidance, compassionate insight, and evidence-based coping strategies. She holds a master’s degree in counseling and has led support groups, workshops, and memorial services for companion animal loss. Judith’s work centers on recognizing the depth of pet grief, offering rituals and tools to process loss, and helping readers build a life that honors memory while making room for healing and new meaning.
The Art of Sacred Smoke by Neelou Malekpour explores the cultural, spiritual, and therapeutic uses of smoke rituals across diverse traditions. Drawing on historical research, personal experience, and interviews with practitioners, Malekpour examines how smoke—from smudging herbs to incense and other aromatic combustions—has been used for purification, healing, protection, and ceremony. The book discusses the symbolism of smoke, techniques for preparing and using sacred smoke, ethical considerations (including cultural appropriation and sustainable sourcing), and contemporary adaptations in wellness and ritual practice. Throughout, the author emphasizes respect for originating cultures, mindful intention, and the sensory and emotional effects of smoke in creating sacred space.
The Pretty Painful Grief Book by William Hunter Howell is a candid, personal exploration of loss and mourning. Combining memoir, practical reflections, and compassionate insight, Howell recounts his own experiences with bereavement while examining how grief reshapes identity, relationships, and daily life. The book blends concrete coping strategies—such as rituals, self-care practices, and ways to seek support—with reflections on the unpredictable, nonlinear nature of grief. Howell emphasizes validation for all kinds of loss, normalizing intense emotions, setbacks, and moments of unexpected sorrow or relief. The tone is honest and tender; the aim is to offer comfort, guidance, and permission to grieve in one’s own way rather than prescribe a single “right” path to healing.
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The Animal Truth Oracle, created by Nicole Harp of HARPSPACE, is a 54 two-sided oracle deck being developed in both digital and physical formats, featuring messages from animals both living and in spirit that Nicole has personally communicated with. Nicole is an artist and trained animal communicator whose work centers on intuitive connection with animals.
Created to offer guidance and connection, the deck will also include a 205-page guidebook to help you use and interpret the cards, plus additional freebies available only through Kickstarter when you pledge. Neither version is publicly available yet, but you can follow the Animal Truth Oracle on Kickstarter now. When you sign up, you’ll receive a free guided audio for exploring connection with wild or domestic animals and stay updated on the Kickstarter launch.
