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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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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In Memory of Little One,
a humpback whale who died from fishing gear entanglement at the tender age of 5 weeks old. Silver Bank 2009
We love you Little One!
May your Spirit soar
with power and grace ~
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Debbie Mag honoring her dogs Sidni and Charlie by creating a heart with their ashes on the beach they loved so much in life.
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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 times of our lives. Healing can require great courage. We all need comfort and support to journey through the lessons and challenges of loss.
This teleclass gently and lovingly provides those participating 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 comfort 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 healing teleclass. In addition, there are dozens of other resources of comfort and grief support available on my web site. Click here for a pdf directory of these resources.
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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Location: Internationally Available Teleclass
Dates & Times of Teleclass:
Session 1 Monday, June 4, 2012
Session 2 Monday, June 11, 2012
Session 3 Monday, June 18, 2012
Session 4 Monday, June 25, 2012
All sessions are held from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm CT
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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:
Four session teleclass is $297 or $214 for early bird registration for 8 class hours
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.
Comments from Past Participants:Click here for sampling of comments, then click on Loss and Grief classes.
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Audio book available in MP3 download or tapesFor numerous additional resources to support you & others through grief--
including books, flower essences, CDs, MP3s, memorial candles, prayer flags, a free teleclass, articles and web site sections,
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Teleclass Series
on End of Life Issues, Death and Healing Grief
Sponsored by the Animal Spirit Network
Classes can be taken individually or as a program of study
Legacies of Love:
A Workshop of Gentle
Healing for Those Who Have Lost Animal Loved Ones
June 4, 11, 18, 25, 2012
Register
The Animals' Perspectives of Death, the Other Side and Coming Back
On Demand Learn More and Register
Understanding & Preparing for Euthanasia
Learn More & Register
Grief Support Skills: Effectively Helping Others Through Their Grief Learn More & Register
Animal Hospice from the Perspective of the Veterinarian, the Animal, and their People
Flower Essences for End-of-Life Care, Loss and Grief
Essential Counseling Skills |
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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 type of 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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