28-Day Guided journey
A Gentle Place to Land After Pet Loss
A few gentle minutes each day to help you find your feet again after losing a beloved companion.
When someone you love dies, the whole house changes.
The quiet feels different now. You still find yourself listening for those familiar footsteps. You catch yourself looking towards the place they always slept. For a split second, you forget. Then it all comes back to you, all over again.
If that's where you find yourself today... please know that you're in the right place.
Healing After Pet Loss is a gentle 28-day guided journey created to help you through what is honestly one of life's hardest experiences. We aren't going to ask you to "move on." And we definitely aren't trying to fix your grief. This is simply about walking beside you, one day at a time.
Immediate access through the All About Your Joy app. Go at your own pace.
Return whenever you need.
When the World Suddenly Feels Different
Sometimes it's not the big moments that catch you. It's reaching for the lead before you remember or hearing a noise outside and thinking they've come home. Looking over towards their favourite bed or chair. And finding yourself filling their water bowl without even thinking. Or walking through the supermarket and automatically turning down the pet food aisle. It's those ordinary moments that quietly remind you they're gone.
And every single reminder can feel like losing them all over again.
For many of us, our animals are our children. We care for them, feed them, structure our days around medication schedules or carrying them up steps, and love them with our whole hearts. When they are suddenly gone, the house becomes silent, and the entire job of caring for them stops overnight.
Then, when the house finally gets quiet, your mind just starts asking impossible questions.
* Did I wait too long?
* Did I do it too soon?
* Were they scared?
* Did they know how much I loved them?
You go over the final days and every single decision you made, as though if you look hard enough, you might find an answer that finally lets you rest.
Grief can make even the gentlest mind feel completely unsettled. It runs back through memories, searching for certainty where there just isn't any. It keeps trying to protect you by solving something that can never really be solved.
Please know that there is nothing wrong with you. This is simply what love looks like when someone deeply important is no longer here beside us.
That constant feeling of being on edge and the deep exhaustion that comes with it, or the tears that seem to arrive out of nowhere. Even feeling like you can still sense them nearby. These are all things so many grieving people recognise. Your body is just trying to make sense of a world that suddenly feels completely different.
That's why this journey doesn't ask you to think your way through grief. Instead, we'll gently help your whole system begin to settle, one small moment at a time. You don't have to stop loving them or force yourself to rush.
For now... You only have to take the next small step. And we'll take it together.
What We'll Do Together
Over the next 28 days, we will gently walk beside you as you begin finding your feet again. There is nothing to achieve and nothing to get right. You won't find any pressure to "move on" here. Just one small step each day. Together, we will gently help you to:
Find moments where you can breathe a little more easily.
Settle the constant replaying in your mind without fighting your thoughts.
Honour the love you shared instead of only holding onto the pain.
Understand what grief is asking of your body with kindness.
Create space for warmth, gratitude, and happy memories to return naturally.
Carry your companion forward with love as life slowly starts to open again.
You can listen whenever you need. Some days that might be every day, while on other days you might simply return when your heart needs a little steadiness. This journey is completely yours.
A quick look at what's inside
We want to make this as easy as possible for you, so everything is ready whenever you are.
Twenty-eight gentle guided sessions that only take a few minutes each day.
Lifetime access so you can listen as often as you need.
Immediate access through the All About Your Joy app.
You don’t need to explain your grief here. You don't need to justify how much they meant to you. You don't need to rush.
You might spot yourself here if...
This page was created for anyone whose heart feels a little lost after saying goodbye to a beloved companion.
You keep replaying the final days, wondering whether you made the right decisions.
You walk into a room expecting to see them waiting for you.
The house feels strangely quiet, even when other people are there.
Friends and family care, but they don't quite understand why this hurts so much or expect you to be "over it" quickly.
You're exhausted, yet your mind won't let you rest.
You smile for other people, then cry as soon as you're alone.
You keep talking to them without even thinking.
You simply want somewhere gentle to come for a few minutes each day.
If you found yourself quietly nodding while reading this, you've found the right place. However your grief is showing up today, you're welcome here.
Whether your companion died yesterday, last month, or years ago, love doesn't work to a timetable. Neither does grief.
One Gentle Day At A Time
You don't have to think about the next four weeks, and you don't have to worry about where your grief will be by the end of the month. You only need today.
Each day offers a few gentle minutes to help you pause, breathe, and take one small step forward. Some days will feel a little lighter, while others may feel unexpectedly heavy again. Both are completely normal. There is no right way to grieve. There's only your way.
The 4-Week Journey
Week One: Finding Your Feet Again
The first days after losing a companion can feel completely disorienting. Life suddenly looks familiar, yet nothing feels quite the same. This first week helps you gently settle into the rhythm of each day, creating a little steadiness while everything still feels uncertain.
Week Two: Honouring the Love You Shared
Grief exists because love exists. This week creates space to remember your companion with kindness, allowing the beautiful moments you shared to sit alongside the sadness.
Week Three: Making Room for Whatever You Feel
There's nothing you need to force and nothing you need to hold back. This week gently supports whatever is present, helping you meet each day with a little more softness.
Week Four: Carrying Their Love Forward
Your companion will always be part of your story. As the days unfold, many people begin noticing small moments of warmth returning alongside their grief. This final week gently supports you as life begins to open again, while keeping the bond you shared close to your heart.
There's No Falling Behind
Some people listen every day. Some take longer, and some return to the same session several times because that's what they need.
This isn't a programme to complete. It's a place to return whenever your heart needs a little steadiness. You'll always have lifetime access, so you can come back whenever you need.
Why I Created This Journey
When Benjamin died at 15 and a half, I watched someone I love navigate a grief that many people didn't fully understand. The quiet in the house felt different. The routines we had shared with him, building ramps, helping him up in the car, medication schedules, they all suddenly vanished. After he passed away in our arms, we sat in a silent house with all that love moving around with nowhere to go.
We even took two full years before bringing Skye and Chester into our lives, giving ourselves room to miss Benjamin, feel his physical absence, and discover how his love remained even when the body was gone.
That experience became the inspiration for my book, Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Benjamin's Guide to Raising Extraordinary Labradors, and eventually this journey.
Like so many people, I've looked towards the place where a beloved companion always rested. I've caught myself expecting to hear familiar footsteps, and I've felt that strange moment of forgetting, only to remember all over again.
If you've experienced that too, I want you to know something. Your love makes perfect sense. Your grief makes perfect sense. And you don't need to explain either of them here.
I created Healing After Pet Loss because I wanted grieving pet parents to have somewhere gentle to come. A place where your companion is honoured, your love is understood, and you can take one small step at a time.
I'm so glad you've found your way here.
Watch Our Talk: Caring for Your Heart After Pet Loss
In this 22-minute presentation recorded for Women's Health Week NZ, I share the story of losing Benjamin, what happens to the mind during pet loss grief, and how to find small pockets of peace when your heart feels broken.
Questions You Might Have
What if I cry during the sessions?
Tears are a natural, healthy expression of love and loss. The sessions are designed to give you a quiet, safe space where you don't have to hold anything back or apologise for your feelings.
What if my companion died a long time ago?
Grief doesn't follow a linear calendar. Whether your pet passed away yesterday or years ago, if feelings of heartbreak, guilt, or unresolved longing are present today, this journey will meet you right where you are.
What if I don't have the energy to listen every day?
There is no schedule or homework. You can listen once a week, pause for a month, or return to a single session as often as you like. You cannot ever fall behind.
Is this part of the All About Your Joy membership?
Healing After Pet Loss is a standalone 28-day guided journey hosted within the All About Your Joy app. Once purchased, you have lifetime access to listen whenever you need.
What if my companion wasn't a dog?
While our personal story involves our Labrador Benjamin, this journey is created for all pet parents, whether you're grieving a cat, dog, horse, bird, rabbit, or any animal companion who shared your heart and home.
What if I don't usually meditate?
No meditation or mindfulness experience is required. You don't need to sit cross-legged or clear your mind. Simply play the audio, rest, and let the gentle guidance support you.
Whenever You're Ready
Grief doesn't have a finish line, and it changes from one day to the next. Some days you'll smile at a memory, while other days the silence may still catch you by surprise. Both belong.
Healing After Pet Loss was created to give you somewhere gentle to come during those days. A place where your love is understood, your grief is welcome, and you don't have to carry everything on your own.
Whenever you're ready, we'll be here.
Before You Go
If today isn't the day you begin, that's okay. Grief asks different things of us at different times. Whether you arrive today, next week, or months from now, this place will still be here.
When you're ready to take that first small step, we'll walk beside you.
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