I shall see beauty but none to match your living grace.
I shall hear musuc
but none as sweet
as the droning song
with which you
loved me.
I shall fill my days
but I shall not,
cannot forget.
Sleep soft, dear friend.
~author unknown
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My family is not confined to mother, mate and child; but it includes all creatures be they tame or wild; my family upon this earth includes all living things, on land, in the ocean deep, or borne aloft on wings.
~Alicia Carpenter
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For one species
to mourn
the death of another
is a noble thing ~
Aldo Leopold
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New Class Series for 2008
on End of Life Issues,
Death and Healing Grief
The Animals' Perspectives of Death, the Other Side and Coming Back
January 8; February 5
MAY BE OFFERED
AGAIN IN FALL 2008
Available now
On Demand
Teleclass
Learn More
Legacies of Love: A
Workshop of Gentle
Healing for Those Who Have Lost Animal Loved Ones
June 10, 17 24,
July 8, 15, 22
Teleclass
Grief Support Skills:
Effectively Helping Others Through
Their Grief
August 5, 12, 19, 26;
Nov 4, 11, 25 Dec 2
Teleclass
Learn More
Image copyright
Nancy Bright.
Used with permission and gratitude.
Cards & prints available:
www.brightcreationsart.com
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Location: Internationally Available Teleclass
Dates and Times:
Session 1 Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Session 2 Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Session 3 Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Session 4 Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Session 5 Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Session 6 Tuesday, July 22, 2008
All sessions are held from 8:00 - 10:00 pm CDT
To check your local time zone comparison to CDT click here:
www.worldtimezone.com
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is beneficial for those of you who have lost an animal recently or in years past, and want to feel more peacefulness and closure about your loss, and to learn strategies to cope with and heal your grief. It is also an opportunity to strengthen your sense of on-going connection with the Spirit of your animal loved one.
Costs and Registration:
This class is sponsored by the Animal Spirit Healing and Education Network, A Healing Arts Community and Education Resource, created by my animal communicator colleague Carol Schultz. I am delighted to be on the faculty of this group and teach this class, and honored to be on their Board of Advisors. I encourage you to explore the depth and breadth of educational opportunities available in animal communication and healing arts.
The cost is $297.00 for 12 class hours
To register click here
Conference call phone number and password are provided to registered students the week in advance of the class.
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Dear Clients, Colleagues and Friends,
When I experienced my first loss of an animal loved one as an adult, it felt like the end of the world. And it was in a way--the end of my world as I knew it with him in it. I loved this cat profoundly, and felt a love from him like no other love I had ever experienced with a human or an animal. And I had never before felt such searing pain as I did when he died. I was shattered by my grief and I didn't have any paradigms or theories to understand it. Even being trained as a therapist, there was very little written or voiced in 1985 about the unique grief of losing beloved animals.
On the contrary, what did exist spoke condescendingly of "pet loss" as practice for the "real thing of losing a human," treating it very clearly as a not-as-important loss. Reading this, and noticing how others around me saw me as odd for loving and grieving so deeply for an animal, I began to think something must be wrong with me.
After a time, however, I got impatient with the prevailing narrow and prejudicial view of the human-animal relationship, and returned to the truth and wisdom of my own soul: that the love between this cat and myself was real, that my grief was real, and that both were as legitimate as human-human love and grief. After finding my way through the pain of this loss and learning some powerful spiritual lessons in the process, I wanted to offer help to others who also might feel alienated and in pain from the loss of their animals. So I studied with legends Kubler Ross, Stephen Levine, John James of the Grief Recovery Institute and others and integrated this work into the learnings of my own heart about the uniqueness of losing animals who are family members. Beginning in 1987 I offered pet loss support groups and later created the Legacies of Love workshops, audio book, and web site sections on animal loss. If you have lost an animal loved one, I hope you may find comfort and support from these resources and I invite you to join me for this upcoming teleclass. To all of you who have ever lost a beloved animal , may your heart be filled and uplifted by the love you created together--which never ends. May you be at peace.
Love and blessings,
Teresa
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Resources available to support you & others through grief:
- Grief Relief flower essence formula from FES
- Animals in Spirit, by Penelope Smith
- Animals in the Afterlife, by Kim Sheridan
- My Personal Pet Remembrance Journal, by Enid Traisman
- Prayer Flags to honor our Pets
- Legacies of Love audio book by Teresa Wagner, now available on CD
- Legacies of Love sympathy cards
To review or purchase these resources click here
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Grief is indifferent to the species lost ~
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It does not matter from whom we learn about love, or with whom we exchange love, only that we love. We need not make narrow, culturally endorsed or forced choices regarding race, gender or species about who to love, or how to love. We must just love.
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A Bit About Teresa:
Teresa
has been working with animal loss and grief issues since 1986 when she
facilitated her first grief support group for people who lost their
beloved animals. Since then, Teresa has worked with thousands of
grievers in bereavement support groups, workshops, in individual
counseling and in her animal communication practice. She is passionate
about helping others through this typically disenfranchised loss.
Her
traditional education includes a master's degree in counseling from
Villanova University, studies at the Grief Recovery Institute in Los
Angeles, and post graduate work in counseling and organizational
development at Columbia University, Wharton, and with Carl Rogers at
the University of Nottingham, England. She has also completed the
Clinical Training Program in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at the
National Center for PTSD, Dept. of Veterans Affairs. Her healing arts
education includes animal communication with Jeri Ryan, flower essence
training at FES, Perelandra, and Desert Alchemy, energy healing
training in Reiki, Tellington-Touch and Therapeutic Touch, and psychic
studies with Evelyn Isadore.
For
more information on her background and for much more supportive information about grieving the loss of animals, please visitwww.animalsinourhearts.com
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