Dr. Guy Winch: …that grieving a pet can hurt just as much as losing a person—and that pain deserves to be honored

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined by Dr. Guy Winch, a licensed psychologist, bestselling author, and one of the world’s leading voices in emotional health. You might know him from his powerful TED Talks, viewed over 35 million times, or from his bestselling books like Emotional First Aid and How to Fix a Broken Heart.

In this episode, we talk with Guy about something so many of us experience but rarely know how to navigate: the grief of losing a pet. Guy explains why that grief can feel just as intense—or even more so—than losing a human loved one, and why it’s crucial that we treat pet loss with the same compassion, validation, and care.

He shares deeply personal stories, as well as science-backed advice on how to process our feelings, memorialize our pets, and let ourselves heal without shame.

To learn more about his work, visit guywinch.com.

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0:44.7	I'm Laura Owens.
0:46.0	And I'm Jan Black.
0:47.3	We are excited to welcome Dr. Guy Wynch back to the show to talk with us about healing from the loss of a pet.
0:55.9	Guy was here previously talking about his book, How to Fix a Broken Heart, which aims to Help People Cope after a breakup or death
1:01.9	of someone they love. That someone can be a pet, and we wanted to talk more in-depth about how
1:07.5	devastating the loss of a pet can be and what we can do to move forward from it.
1:12.4	Guy is a licensed psychologist and in-demand keynote speaker who's a leading advocate for
1:17.5	integrating the science of emotional health into every aspect of our daily lives.
1:22.6	Guy, welcome back to the show.
1:24.8	Thank you so much for having me back.
1:26.8	Talk to us more about why you became so
1:29.0	interested in what happens to people grieving the loss of a pet. I became interested because in my
1:34.3	private practice, I would see people who lost pets and who are absolutely devastated. And I would look at
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