Pet Grief Book
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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July 4, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Deserving listeners. So as you might have heard me talk about in recent months, I have been |
| 0:06.9 | writing my book on grief that I've been working on to some extent off and on for the past |
| 0:12.3 | 11 years. And a significant theme in the book is to recognize the various different losses that can that can provoke |
| 0:23.3 | grief in us that are non-death related because so much of the literature on grief has to do with |
| 0:29.8 | death, which is fine. But when I really think about it and my clients and in my personal life, |
| 0:35.4 | if I just think about the sheer number of losses that |
| 0:38.4 | provoke grief in me and my clients, the majority of the losses don't have anything to do |
| 0:43.1 | with death or death of a loved, of a human, if you will. And as a part of that, recognizing that |
| 0:49.0 | pet grief and the loss of a pet, the death of a pet can be horrific. |
| 0:56.7 | As a pet lover myself, and I've talked about it over the years, it's horrible. |
| 1:03.6 | It can just rock you to the core. |
| 1:08.0 | And there are often elements of pet death that are often unique to that death, |
| 1:15.5 | to that loss, in that we're often the ones making that choice and checking that box and |
| 1:23.2 | saying, yes, now is the time. And with, you know, loved humans, sometimes we have that in a sense, |
| 1:30.2 | but it's usually handled different. Anyway, and that carries with it a whole other kind of |
| 1:34.5 | guilt and shame and uncertainty and terribleness that I have been through. And so when I received |
| 1:41.8 | an email from Beth Bigler's agent saying that Beth Bigler, who's my guest |
| 1:48.7 | today, wrote a book on pet grief, I jumped at the opportunity to interview her. So welcome to the |
| 1:54.6 | podcast, Beth. It's great to be here. And thank you so much for validating and normalizing |
| 2:00.7 | pet loss grief. Yeah. So tell us about your book. |
| 2:04.1 | I mean, I'll give a brief summary in that it's called honoring our animals. And the subtitle is 365 |
| 2:11.4 | meditations for healing after pet, pet loss. On every page, there are two different exercises of self-reflection |
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