Description
A 30 day guided journaling course to encourage and support your journey through grief. During your 30 days in our course, you will receive a journal prompt daily in your email, to assist positive processing of your grief. The prompts are yours to keep and revisit any time you wish. You will also receive membership in a private Facebook Community Group of fellow pet loss grievers, moderated by our support team. Sharing, supporting others, and having understanding ears to witness your grief can be powerfully healing in your journey. If you prefer not to join your class on social media, our team will check on you throughout the course by email. Courses run monthly, beginning on the 15th of each month. You will select the first date of your course in the Getting to Know You form in your introductory email.
Questions? Not sure if this is the right fit for you? Contact us: mourningpawsproject@gmail.com- our goal is that you find the right resources for YOU, and we will do our best to help you get them!
Please know that this course is not meant to take the place or mimic professional therapy. It is one tool of many to assist you towards a healthy journey through grief.
Louie’s Human –
I am very glad I joined the study. I am in the Facebook group & I find it helpful. I
especially like when things are asked about our experiences and our feelings about things, because I have
made it a goal to think about and answer each of those questions, which sometimes brings things to the
surface that I didn’t know where there. Also, other people sharing their feelings and experiences has helped
me feel less alone and sometimes “less crazy.” Even though I haven’t anyone I feel like I can talk to in person
about this who *truly* understands what I’m going through, the FB group is a small community “out there” who
gets it and is working toward healing.
M –
Thank you all so much for facilitating the journaling work. It has helped me so much.
I’ve had some lovely moments to reflect on happy memories, and I’ve had the space to work through difficult
emotions
I’ll miss my dog forever, and that’s ok. That’s my biggest takeaway
Thank you all. I also really appreciate the respect and professionalism that everyone involved with Mourning Paws has shown.
Thank you so much for helping me through the hardest period in my life. I’m so happy to have been a part of this project.
Daisy –
I am grateful for the support of everyone here and to be able to support others. It has helped me be at peace
with my feelings of grief and loss. I just passed a year without my best friend. My being able to control how I
behave with others is great, while how much she is missed has remained the same. The community here is
a very, very special thing.
Bernie –
I’m in a happier place now. It’s been a year since we lost our dog to cancer at just seven years old. But I do remember the devastating loss that I felt every day in those first weeks after his passing. I was weeping sporadically, but not really feeling like I could talk about it with anyone. To be honest, I felt a little uncomfortable (embarrassed) about being so emotionally wrecked over a dog. Mourning Paws was a
wonderful outlet and safe space to process what I was feeling. The resources helped me through this difficult time and I’m grateful for it. It’s important to find a community that understands what you’re feeling, especially when the feeling is grief. Mourning Paws was there when I needed them most.
Thank you.
Grieving Dad –
This group helped me recover more quickly from the passing of my dog. He was my fur kid, and his passing could have devastated me. But taking the time to do the exercises, and participate in the Facebook group
allowed me to heal faster, and not be in a place of constant grief.
Thank you for the assistance!
Hooper’s Mom –
My experience with the Mourning Paws grief study was so transformative for me. I had lost my Boy Hooper to cancer, and while I knew he was going to pass, I was still not prepared for his passing. Feeling devastated,
sad, lost and lonely are just some of the feelings. I also felt guilty, second guessing myself for decisions I made for his care once diagnosed. The study gave me something to commit to with the intention of being open
to what might be, the possibility of gaining some help, guidance and relief for my grief. The daily prompts opened my heart, gave me guidance to navigate my loss and greater understanding about grief and mourning,
to healing, moving forward and acceptance. I am forever grateful.
Lexie’s Mom –
I really appreciated being able to be a part of the study just after the time of my beloved dog Lexi’s death. I felt like I was not alone and that I was surrounded by other people who also lost beloved pets and knew exactly
how I felt and what I was going through. It also gave me a deeper empathy towards others who lost pets too.
By answering the journaling prompts, it helped me to focus on what my beloved meant to me in all those big and small special ways and write them down. Very important. I don’t want to ever forget and now that I have a written record, I won’t. I cried every time I journaled. Hard. Sobbing. What people refer to as, “ugly crying”.
While it would have been easier just to carry on with my daily life and responsibilities and set my grieving aside, the journal prompts reminded me that it was important to do my grieving NOW, that it was an important
process of coming to terms with this big loss. At times, it was so painful, literally I felt pain in my heart while journaling and crying that I wondered whether it was actually good for me or not. It felt like “grieving on
steroids!” It’s definitely not for a person who would rather avoid painful thoughts and feelings and/or numb them away. But, I’ve never been a “numb-er’; and instead have always preferred to manage my emotions and mental health actively, directly, doing whatever I could to help me help myself.
Looking back now, a couple years later, I do think the journaling process was beneficial for me. Today, I’m able
to think about and talk about my sweet Lexi without totally breaking down! Now that’s progress from where I
was feeling mostly incapacitated by the loss.
Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of the study.