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Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping Wisdom for Heart and Soul After the Loss of a Beloved Feline
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780615739120
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 19 2012
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
More than just another book on pet loss. Reading this book is like talking to a friend who knows you almost better than you know yourself...it doesn't stop at just helping you through the grief...it will help you find an even deeper connection to your lost loved ones. - Ingrid King, ConsciousCat.com, author of Buckley's Story and Purrs of Wisdom
If the loss of a feline friend has hit you particularly hard, know you are not alone. In Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers, you will find validation, coping insights, and practical wisdom conveyed with spiritual warmth.
Author Liz Eastwood weaves her own experiences with advice from grief experts and stories from cat lovers to help you: process your feelings and recognize them as normal, create something positive out of the energy of grief, cultivate a continued sense of connection to your cat, deal with inconvenient grief, and strengthen your natural coping reserves.
This book also explores evidence of the most soulful of soul comforts: the possibility of the continuation of your loved one's spirit-and your connection to that spirit-after death. This topic is discussed from a perspective of open-minded curiosity, without bringing in any particular dogma or religion.
Asserting that you can live wholeheartedly after loss, and that your feline friend would want nothing less for you, Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers is a compassionate handbook for your grief-healing journey.
CONTENTS
PART 1 Coping with the Loss of Your Feline Friend: Wisdom for mind, body, and spirit
- How Long Should This Be Taking?
- Learning to Ignore Everyone Who Doesn't Get It
- Understanding What Feelings Are Normal at This Time
- Giving Sorrow the Space to Transform
- Replenishing Your Coping Reserves
- Using Ritual to Honor Your Cat, Heal, and Feel Connected
- Creating Something Positive Out of Grief Energy: The Tribute
- Saving Memories You Don't Want to Forget
- Choosing Continued Connection Instead of Closure
- Asking a Magic Question
- Considering the Right Time to Adopt Another Cat
- Knowing When and How to Get More Support
PART 2 Finding Comfort in Wonder: Allowing the possibility that death is not the end
- Choosing Wonder
- Looking at Experiences of Connection After Death
- Exploring Science That Suggests More to Life and Death
PART 3 Conclusion: Emerging Whole After Loss
Appendix: Soul Comfort Poems for Ceremonies
FROM THE BACK COVERDid you know it's normal for the loss of your cat companion to hit you at least as hard as any loss you've had in your life? That means your grief process deserves far more care and respect than the world may be giving it. When author Liz Eastwood went looking for help with her grief after her feline soulmate died, the resources she found were helpful at times, but often felt dog oriented.
She writes, Grief and loss may be the hardest thing we face in this life, and they are particularly excruciating when we feel others do not understand.When the grief was very fresh...I needed support, but it wasn't worth risking the pain of someone trivializing the loss of my cat friend.
This books details what we can learn from Liz's story, grief experts, and others who have emerged whole after losing a beloved cat companion. Additionally, it offers an opportunity to find comfort in wonder by acknowledging research and experiences that imply death is not the end. Let this book be a friend as you find your way through the haze of grief. You can get to the other side and live wholeheartedly after this loss-your feline friend would want nothing less for you.
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