Understanding and Managing Grief & Pet Loss, January 8 - January 14, 2023

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

This year, I encountered my worst nightmare. Despite all of the trauma that I’ve experienced, no level of abuse compared to facing the one thing I feared most in the world: losing my best friend, my emotional support animal (ESA), Willow. How My Emotional Support Animal Continues to Heal Me Even After Her Passing « Your Tango

I lost my two grandmothers four times in total. Twice to dementia. Twice to death. I grieved long before they left this world. I have lost them four times, and it feels like every time I remember, I lose them again. Tonight, my grief is a wild, roaring thing, and I am weeping alone in a quiet house. I have no one to blame but myself. After all, I summoned it here. Your Grief is Proportionate to Your Love « NewsBreak Original

"I was doing my laundry in my parents machine and never, not once, seen or heard the male kitten get into the dryer. It was beyond too late for him and he died in the machine. It was the most horrific thing I think I’ve ever dealt with. I killed my mom's kitten. Why didn’t I see him? Why didn’t I hear him? Why?!"  Yet Another Kitten Killed in Clothes Dryer « Grief Healing

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