Robin with her beloved
Ming 
I shall see beauty but none to match your living grace.
I shall hear music
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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Susan with her beloved Mickey
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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Mary with her beloved Frankie
For one species
to mourn
the death of another
is a noble thing
~ Aldo Leopold
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Teleclass Series
on End of Life Issues,
Death and Healing Grief
Sponsored by the
Animal Spirit Network
Legacies of Love:
A Workshop of Gentle
Healing for Those Who Have Lost Animal Loved Ones
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The Animals' Perspectives of Death, the Other Side and Coming Back
Also Available
On Demand
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Understanding & Preparing
for Euthanasia
Oct 11 & 18, 2010
by Windi Wojdak, RVT
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Grief Support Skills:
Effectively Helping Others Through Their Grief
Nov 1, 8, 15, 22, 2010
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Image copyright
Nancy Bright.
Used with permission and gratitude.
Cards & prints available:
www.brightcreationsart.com
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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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In Memory of my
Beloved KK
1994 - 2009
May the angels and whales in heaven deliver my
900 kisses to you every day.
I love you beyond measure,
my anchor, my son, my joy.
You still sparkle!
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Dear Clients, Colleagues and Friends,
When our beloved animals die, the hole it can leave in our hearts
and our physical lives can be overwhelming and devastating. It can seem as if we are fractured for a time. We are required, whether we want to or not, to begin to learn who we are without them with us on the earth. This can be one of the most challenging and sometimes excruciating lessons of grief: learning how to be whole without the one who made us feel so whole. Many of us first learned how to be our best selves and how to experience love at its deepest from animals. To learn to carry on and continue to be our best selves without their presence can take enormous courage. We all need
comfort and support to journey through this and other lessons and challenges of loss.
This teleclass gently and lovingly provides participants with an
opportunity to express their grief, understand their grief, and explore
many strategies to heal their grief, with ample opportunity
for active discussion and sharing.
In this workshop of healing, tribute, and celebration of our animals there is an opportunity to: - Honor your animals by sharing their stories, their photos and the
story of your love. Share the fullness and truth of your love of
animals and your experience of loss in the comforting and presence of
others who understand
- Feel relief from sorrow and suffering
- Embrace the lessons emerging from the loss itself
- Learn practical grief recovery skills
- Explore the legacies that transcend physical death - the mutual
gifts and lessons of the relationship - and ways to integrate them into
your way of being. This is perhaps the finest tribute we can make to
our animal loved ones
If you have lost an animal loved one, I invite you to join me for this upcoming teleclass and hope you may find comfort and support from the grief resources on my web site.
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
More information on the content of the workshop
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Location: Internationally Available Teleclass
Dates & Times of Free Introductory Talk: May 11th, 2010 8pm - 9pm CT
Dates & Times of Teleclass:
Session 1 Monday, June 7, 2010
Session 2 Monday, June 14, 2010
Session 3 Monday, June 21, 2010
Session 4 Monday, June 28, 2010
All sessions are held from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm CT
To check your local time zone comparison to CT 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:
Introductory Talk is FREE To register chick here
Four session teleclass is $297 or $214 for early bird registration
for 8 class hours
To register click here
Conference call phone number and password are provided to registered students the week in advance of the class.
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.
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Further Resources to support you
& others through grief:
Books
Flower Essences
CD's, Candles and Prayer Flags
Free Articles
Articles on Loss and Healing
Free Information on Web Site
Web Site section: Comfort and Support in Your Time of Grief
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Grief is indifferent to the species lost ~
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A Bit About Teresa's Background in Grief Support:
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. I had never before
felt such searing pain as I did when he died, was shattered by my grief,
and didn't have any paradigms, theories or tools to understand it. Even
being trained as a therapist, there was very little written or voiced
in the early 1980's 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 animals and
humans is very real, that our grief when they die is very real, and
that both are 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 began to offer pet loss support groups and workshops and later created
the Legacies of Love audio book and other grief support resources.
Since then, I have worked with thousands of
grievers in bereavement support workshops and in individual
counseling and animal communication consultations. One of my greatest life passions is to help others through this typically disenfranchised loss.
more information on my education and professional background
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