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    So Easy to Love, So Hard to Lose: A Bridge to Healing Before and After the Loss of a Pet
    So Easy to Love, So Hard to Lose: A Bridge to Healing Before and After the Loss of a Pet
    So Easy to Love, So Hard to Lose: A Bridge to Healing Before and After the Loss of a Pet
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    So Easy to Love, So Hard to Lose: A Bridge to Healing Before and After the Loss of a Pet

    By Laurie Kaplan

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    Many pet owners suffer endless with grief after the loss of a pet. This book takes a new look at pet loss as it is distinct from other types of loss. This book is not focused on adding to academia on the subject or agreeing / disagreeing with the findings of other authors and experts. It focuses on helping the pet owner work through the grief process to come out at the other end ready to pay tribute to their lost pet and take joy in their memories.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLaurie Kaplan
    Release dateMay 16, 2011
    ISBN9781458193322
    So Easy to Love, So Hard to Lose: A Bridge to Healing Before and After the Loss of a Pet
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    Laurie Kaplan

    I am a Medical Animal Writer. I am the author of "Help Your Dog Fight Cancer," and of "So Easy to Love, So Hard to Lose." I co-authored "Canine and Feline Geriatric Oncology."In Help Your Dog Fight Cancer: Empowerment for Dog Owners, I provide the information people need to feel confident caring for their dog through cancer treatment. Including diet, supplements, communication with your vet, and treatment decisions. I provide a lot of information that most veterinarians do not provide to clients. My motto is Your dog, Your money, Your decisions.I am the founder and administrator of the Magic Bullet Fund, a nonprofit that helps people who have a dog or cat with cancer but can't afford treatment costs. We have helped 790 pets through cancer treatment.I have been a psychotherapist (masters in counseling), a computer software developer, a producer of educational filmstrips/videos and a veterinary surgical assistant.I live in Briarcliff NY with partner Mike and canine partner Stone.

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      So Easy to Love, So Hard to Lose - Laurie Kaplan

      So Easy to Love, So Hard to Lose

      A Bridge to Healing Before and After the Loss of a Pet

      by Laurie Kaplan

      Smashwords Edition

      Published by JanGen Press LLC, NY.

      Copyright 2011 Laurie Kaplan

      Print edition available at www.JanGenPress.com.

      This eBook is licensed to one reader only. If you purchased this eBook or it was purchased for you as a gift, please do not resell it or give it away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient.

      If you like this book enough to share it with a friend and you appreciate the work this author has put into producing the book for you and others to read, thank the author by ensuring that an actual sale is generated by each person who reaps the benefits of the work.

      If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Laurie Kaplan is the founder and administrator of the Magic Bullet Fund, Fighting Canine Cancer One Dog at a Time. This non-profit has provided financial assistance to more than 140 families who have a dog with cancer but cannot afford treatment costs.

      Information available online at http://www.themagicbulletfund.org.

      Laurie Kaplan is the author of Help Your Dog Fight Cancer: What Every Caretaker Should Know about Canine Cancer.

      Information available online at http://www.helpyourdogfightcancer.com.

      Note to eBbook Readers

      So Easy to Love, So Hard to Lose is divided into chapters. Within the chapters, each page of text (for you to read) is followed by a series of questions (for you to answer). The content and the sequencing have been painstakingly prepared to help you work through the challenges that arise during the grief journey after the loss of a pet.

      Each block of text is followed by a series of questions, called Reflections. Please read the text and then answer the questions. In this eBook version of the book, I ask you to write your answers in a journal. That journal will become your grief journal. Write neatly! When you have finished, it will become a keepsake, a tribute to your pet, and a record of your grief journey.

      Whether you choose to write out your answers or not, say the answers out loud! This is an important facet of the journey.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Author’s Note

      Part One: So Easy to Love

      Chapter 1: The Magical Bond

      Chapter 2: Embrace the Final Days

      Chapter 3: End of Life Care

      Part Two: So Hard to Lose

      What is the Rainbow Bridge?

      Chapter 4: After the Loss

      Chapter 5: Is it True?

      Chapter 6: No Regrets

      Chapter 7: The Emotional Roller Coaster

      Chapter 8: You’re Not Alone

      Chapter 9: A Bridge to Healing

      My Grief Journey

      Resources

      Foreword

      by Marty Tousely

      Just as the human-animal bond is different from the bonds we have with other people, so is the grief we encounter when a loved pet is lost. Author Laurie Kaplan shows us that it is precisely because our animal companions are so easy to love that we find it so hard to lose them.

      As a grief counselor who has worked with bereaved animal lovers for nearly twenty years, and from my own experience with pet loss, I am absolutely convinced that the more we learn about grief, the better we are able to cope with it. Although the experience itself is unique to each of us, grief is a normal, natural response to loss. With understanding and conscious direction, it can become a journey that leads to healing and personal growth.

      So Easy to Love, So Hard to Lose offers direction and hope to those of us struggling with the loss of a cherished pet. Laurie gently sets readers on a path toward meaningful growth and inspiration, helping us to embrace our grief as an expression of love that can carry us across the bridge to healing.

      The ability of humans and animals to bond across species with one other is remarkable! It is a beautiful gift to be celebrated. If you have been blessed with the unconditional love and devotion of an animal companion, you already know how easy it is to love these wonderful creatures. If your animal has died or is seriously ill or missing, you are aware of how difficult it is to lose such a precious and cherished friend. You know the deep sadness and the very real pain that comes with this different sort of grief.

      Laurie depicts pet loss grief as not only healthy and necessary, but a beautiful rite of passage, which allows us to learn, to grow, and to find meaning in our loss. This book accurately describes what is unique about the person-pet bond and why the grief associated with pet loss is so difficult to bear.

      Practical suggestions in this book for coping with premature grief, offering comfort care near the end of life, preparing for and planning for euthanasia and after-death care, and attending to surviving pets will all help readers.

      With compassion and conviction, Laurie helps us understand and manage the emotions we may feel after the loss of a pet. She also shows us how to turn the empty sadness of grief into purposeful action, easing our pain and sorrow by creating a legacy of memories to honor our faithful friends.

      by Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC

      Author of The Final Farewell: Preparing for and Mourning the Loss of Your Pet, Our Pals Publishing Company, 1997. Author of Finding Your Way through Grief: A Guide for the First Year (2nd Edition), Hospice of the Valley, 2008. Bereavement Counselor, www.griefhealing.com and http://griefhealingblog.blogspot.com.. Moderator, Online Grief Healing Discussion Groups, Hospice of the Valley, Phoenix, Arizona.

      Author’s Note

      The loss of a beloved pet is devastating. Can the pain and sadness of pet loss grief be eased by a book? I hope so! My objective is to not write a book that will sit on a shelf with a collection of other such books, as evidence that

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