Hey friends this is fun therapy and my name is Mike Foster and together we're going to dive into the messy and the brutal but oh so beautiful parts of our not so perfect stories.

We're going to do it with a smile.

And even when the things we love leave us,

and even when we are left with only questions, we will hold tightly to hope.

We will squeeze it for all that it's worth for hope is our lifeline.

In the darkness, in the unanswered questions,

in the vastness of our loss,

like a springtime flower after a cold harsh winter, hope appears and we begin to

breathe again. My name is Mike Foster and this is fun therapy. Hello friends I am so glad that you're here. In this episode I want to talk about something very personal that has happened recently in my life,

but also something that is deeply universal.

How do we grieve when we lose a beloved pet?

This is going to be a difficult one for me personally because we lost our little

fluffball Napoleon a few weeks ago.

He was our little toy Pomeranian dog.

He was five pounds and all Fluff.

And I called him our fun therapy dog and he really was and I

want to share some things I've learned since then after his passing about

grief about how to process loss.

And this episode isn't just about losing a dog or a furry friends,

but I truly believe it's something more deeply universal about humanity that

deeply touches each one of us.

It's the processing of loss and so I'm really looking forward to this conversation and I know you'll get a few things out of it as we talk about this very real subject.

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