A Different Grief: Helping You and Your Children with Pet Loss by Marty Tousley [ Course Reviews ] (Audio Message from Course Instructor)

Course Description
If your family is struggling with your pet's chronic or terminal illness, facing a decision about euthanasia, or mourning the loss of a cherished animal companion, please accept our heartfelt condolences at this sad and difficult time. And accept this invitation to enroll in this pet loss course designed to support you on this difficult journey. We recognize that your family needs all the information, compassion and support you can find. You deserve to feel comforted, understood and acknowledged as a family in grief, and reassurance that you are normal and healthy in loving your faithful animal friend so deeply.


Who is best served by this e-course?
You will be served well by this course if your family is . . .

• Experiencing grief and despair over the loss or the death of a beloved pet.
• Surprised and even overwhelmed at the depth of your family's grief at the loss of your pet.
• Feeling isolated from others because they tell you "it's just a pet" and they don't understand how you or your children feel.
• Feeling guilty because the grief you feel at the thought of losing your family pet matches or even exceeds the sorrow you felt when one of your close friends or relatives died.
• Wanting to better understand, help and support a child, or a friend or family member whose child is mourning the loss of a pet.

This supportive course makes a thoughtful gift for a friend or loved one struggling to cope with the effects of pet loss and grief.








Course Objectives

Explore both the myths and the realities surrounding the experience of pet loss, including why it hurts so much and how it differs from other losses. Lessons will. . .

• Explain how children of different ages may react to the loss of a beloved family pet, and how they differ from adults in expressing grief.
• Provide useful suggestions to help you talk with children about the sensitive topics of death and euthanasia.
• Guide and support you through the emotional upheaval of grief and come to a better understanding of the shock, disbelief, anger, guilt and sorrow that are commonly experienced when a beloved pet is lost.
• Help you discover how to plan ahead for the death of a pet while honoring your own values and spiritual beliefs.
• Offer up suggestions for meaningful ways to memorialize your faithful friend.
• Outline what you can do when a pet has gone missing.
• Explore how you can provide for your pet in case of your own unexpected absence or death.
• Suggest ways to support and help a friend who has lost a pet.

24 Lessons
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Recommended Course Pace: weekly receipt of lessons


Special Course Features

• Online and offline support group recommendations.
• Web site, article, book, discussion board recommendations.
• Free monthly newsletter with new articles or Q & A's by bereavement counselor Marty Tousley. (Check "Yes" to the newsletter subscription question on the enrollment form)

Begin your journey now! Have each lesson of this course delivered to your email inbox on the start date and at the frequency of your choosing by clicking the Enroll Now button.


           


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Course Fee: $34.95

Take advantage of our 2 for 1 Offer!

Take this course with a buddy. If you enroll now, you have the option to take this course with a friend for no additional course fee! The free course will be a gift from you to your friend.

Why e-learning?

Reportedly, e-learning results in a higher rate of information retention - with students demonstrating a 60% faster learning curve than those in instructor led classes. And, in contrast to a Web seminar, teleconference, or traditional class, our lesson delivery suits your lifestyle and schedule!


About the Instructor

Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, is a certified hospice bereavement counselor helping people find their way through grief following the death of a family member. As a volunteer with the Halton-Peel Pet Loss Support Group in Ontario, Canada and the Pet Grief Support Service in Phoenix, AZ, she also works with bereaved animal lovers, both individually and in groups, and consults with veterinary clinics to foster greater understanding of pet loss among staff members, thereby building better helping relationships with grieving clients. A frequent contributor to healthcare journals, newsletters and magazines for the lay public, she has written several articles and book chapters in the professional nursing and medical literature, and has authored three books addressing various aspects of loss and grief. Her award-winning Internet Web site, www.GriefHealing.com, offers information, comfort and support to anyone who is anticipating or mourning the loss of a loved one, whether human or animal. Marty can be reached via e-mail at . She authored three Self-Healing Expressions e-courses including The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey and A Different Grief: Coping with Pet Loss (with and without a child component).