Honoring Our Animals

Honoring Our Animals Beth Bigler, GC-C, PGSS-C
🐾Pet Loss Grief Counselor 🐾
šŸ’”Support before & after your loss

I don’t care if that makes you uncomfortable.My beloved still loves me. I’m still their guardian.I say ā€œthey love meā€ no...
03/04/2026

I don’t care if that makes you uncomfortable.

My beloved still loves me. I’m still their guardian.

I say ā€œthey love meā€ not ā€œloved me.ā€

If you think that’s denial, you don’t understand continuing bonds. If you think it’s unhealthy, you’ve never loved like this.

It’s realizing I planned my whole life around them and now I don’t know what I’m doing.Walking past their food bowl twen...
03/03/2026

It’s realizing I planned my whole life around them and now I don’t know what I’m doing.

Walking past their food bowl twenty times a day.

Waking up and reaching for them before I remember.

Hearing a sound they used to make and turning to look for them.

Carrying groceries in alone when they used to greet me at the door.

Every single ordinary moment that used to include them.

What’s your hardest part?

Grieving pet guardians deserve care, compassion, dignity, support, love, witness, and understanding.Drop a 🧔 if you agre...
03/02/2026

Grieving pet guardians deserve care, compassion, dignity, support, love, witness, and understanding.

Drop a 🧔 if you agree.

You find their fur on the blanket you kept by the window.Someone asks where your dog is and you have to say it out loud ...
02/25/2026

You find their fur on the blanket you kept by the window.

Someone asks where your dog is and you have to say it out loud again.

The neighbor mentions how nice the weather is getting and you can’t explain why that sentence feels like a knife.

Spring doesn’t care that your beloved isn’t here to experience it. The world keeps renewing while you’re still learning how to breathe through their absence.

I’ve sat with hundreds of grieving pet loss guardians through this season. The pressure to match everyone else’s joy. The guilt when you can’t. The isolation of grieving while the world celebrates.

Your beloved shaped every season of your life. Their earthly absence reshapes it too.

Which permission did you need most?

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