Pet Grief Support
Understanding Pet Grief
Pet grief can feel overwhelming, consuming, and deeply confusing. Many people are surprised by how intense the pain is after losing a pet, especially when others expect them to “move on” quickly. If you are experiencing deep pet grief, there is nothing wrong with you.
Losing a pet often means losing a constant source of love, comfort, and emotional safety. The bond we share with our animals is profound, and when that bond is broken, the grief can feel just as powerful as losing a human loved one.
Our daily lives are interrupted with grief, often around important routines like sleep, meals, and arriving home after work. Expecting this and finding a way to hold this feeling of profound loss helps make sense of these sometimes confusing emotions. The point isn’t to make the pet grief “go away”, but instead to learn how to walk alongside it.
Why Pet Grief Can Feel All-Consuming
Pet grief often includes multiple losses at once:
The loss of unconditional companionship
The loss of daily routine and structure
The loss of physical touch and presence
The loss of identity as a caregiver
The loss of future moments you imagined together
These losses compound, making pet grief feel intense and, at times, unbearable. The depth of pain reflects the depth of love.
There Is No Right Timeline for Pet Grief
Pet grief does not follow a schedule. Some days you may feel functional, while others feel heavy and disoriented. Anniversaries, habits, and small reminders can bring fresh waves of grief long after your pet has passed.
Healing does not mean forgetting your pet. It means learning how to carry pet grief alongside love, memory, and continued connection.
Pet grief rarely exists in isolation. Losing a pet can reopen past losses, attachment wounds, or unresolved grief. For many people, animals are safer emotional bonds than humans, offering love without expectation or judgment.
When that bond ends, pet grief can ripple outward, touching parts of you that feel raw, tender, or long forgotten.
This layering of grief is normal and deeply human.
Animal Companion loss Often FEELS Invisible or Minimized
One of the hardest parts of pet grief is how often it goes unrecognized. Society frequently minimizes pet loss with phrases like “it was just an animal” or “you can get another one.”
This lack of validation can create isolation and shame around pet grief. When grief is dismissed, it has fewer places to land and be witnessed. This can make pet grief feel heavier and more complicated over time.
You deserve acknowledgment and care.
Sometimes our upbringing, our partners, or even our friend circle can have different ideas of how to deal with pet grief. The truth is, it’s something deeply personal. Sometimes, it even surprises us after the event has come to a close. In this space, all pasts of the grieving process are honored and taken into account.
You’ll never be told that you’re overreacting, or that you need to “get over it”. This is a shame-free space.
Support for Pet Grief & Loss Is Essential
Pet grief deserves care that honors the whole person, body, heart, and spirit. Support can help regulate the nervous system, create space for remembrance, and provide gentle tools for living with loss.
You do not need to rush your grief or carry it alone.
Support can look different among individuals. Just like the need for support varies from person to person. There isn’t a one-time fix or a magic cure for the grief that pet loss brings. However, how you choose to support these transformative times makes a difference. By choosing to make time and sit with these tough emotions, you, in turn, build resilience. Each day you learn something new about yourself. Sometimes, it feels like you might even be taking a step back, and yes, that’s a part of the process.
Having someone not only walk you through a framework built to help you make space for pet grief, but to spiritually support you in changing your perception. The method I utilize views you as a whole person, mind, body, and soul. I have tools to help with the emotional overwhelm, feeling of panic, and lack of sleep. We also talk about things in terms of what comes next, and how to work with the pet grief instead of having it work you.
Support for Pet Grief at The Cosmic Craft
I offer compassionate, whole-body support for pet grief. This work is designed for those who want their grief to be seen, honored, and held with care.
Using astrology, herbalism, breathwork, gentle movement, and grief-informed practices, I support your body and emotions as you navigate life after loss.
Pet grief & loss is met with patience, presence, and deep respect for the bond you shared.
My Journey with Pet Grief & loss
I’ve worked alongside animals for well over 10 years in vetinary medicine, animal care, and animal advocacy. I’ve sat alongside over 100 people while they walked their animal companions to the other side, said their final goodbyes, or asked me to do it for them when they couldn’t be present.
Oftentimes, you have a general idea when this day of loss might come. Sometimes it’s a hospice situation, and other times, it’s more emergent. Having someone on your team that understands how health can progress or how emergencies happen makes a difference. The set and setting change everything for how we remember these final moments.
Workking with me gives you the opportunity to not just work through your grief, but hold it in a way that it changes you forerver. You’re able to make sacred space in your heart, and learn to live with it in a way that’s no longer debilitating. It’s the ability to be wholly seen as a pet guardian, and honoring your commitment to remembering them. After all, they wouldn’t want you to comparmentalize the grief, try to forget it, or even try to forget them.
Ways I Support Pet Grief
One on one pet grief support sessions using astrology readings as a tool to focus on pet loss, soul bonds, and what comes next.
Nervous system support for anxiety, shock, and exhaustion related to pet grief with tailored breathwork sessions.
Herbal guidance to support the heart, sleep, and emotional resilience
Ritual and remembrance practices to honor your pet’s life
Pet grief does not have to be something you carry silently. It’s something that requires sacred space to move through, and community support.
Begin Your Animal Grief Support Journey
If you are moving through pet grief and longing for gentle, whole body support, I invite you to explore working together.
Your pet mattered. Your grief matters. And support is available.