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Pet Loss Matters – A Place to Belong
For twenty years, this website has been a place where people come quietly, often in the middle of the night, looking for something they cannot quite name. Not answers, exactly. Not solutions. Just the feeling that someone else has been here too. That what they are going through is real, and known, and not something they have to carry entirely alone.
That has always been what Pet Loss Matters was built for.
And now I want to take it further.
Why a Community?
A website, however full of love and care, can only do so much. It can hold your story. It can offer words that feel true. But it cannot talk back to you. It cannot hold space for what you are going through right now, today, in this moment – and it cannot introduce you to the others who are sitting in exactly the same place.
That is what a community can do.
What I have learned, after all this time, is that the single most healing thing is not a quote, or a poem, or even an article that perfectly describes what you are feeling. It is knowing that someone else felt it too.
So I created the Pet Loss Matters Support Group: a quiet, gentle space where the grief of losing an animal companion is never minimised or rushed, and where it is given the weight and dignity it deserves.
What You Will Find Inside
Nothing overwhelming, nothing rushed. When you join, you will find:
Daily Check-Ins – a gentle place each day to share how you are feeling, even if it is just one word.
Come As You Are live meetings – a warm, unhurried gathering. Pyjamas welcome, cameras optional, no judgement. Just people who understand.
The Emergency Care Kit – gentle guided practices for the hardest moments: the 3am waves, the anniversaries, the empty bed.
The Brain That Grieves – a video course in which Henry gently explains the neuroscience of grief, and why losing a companion can make you feel the way you do. Understanding it, even a little, can make it a lot less bewildering.
Daily affirmations, reflections and journalling prompts – questions and thoughts to help you sit with your grief rather than run from it, and put words to the things that feel almost unspeakable. Grief doesn't want to be fixed. It wants to be witnessed.
The Love That Remains – a free 120-page Pet Loss Matters Grief & Gratitude Journal, yours to keep, with space to write, space to feel, and space to remember.
Henry – Henry is a presence I created especially for Pet Loss Matters: a guide and a gentle voice, the keeper of every story, tribute and diary that has passed through this space. Inside the community, he presents the video lessons and guided practices, and offers quiet moments of reflection and remembrance.
And each other – the other members of this group. People who understand, because they are living it too.
The Pet Loss Matters Support Group is $5 a month to join. I want it to be accessible to anyone who needs it, and self sustainable – so it can continue to help as many people as possible.
All I ask is that you come as you are, and that you treat others in the group with the same gentleness you would want for yourself.
If you are ready, I would love to have you there.
The group is hosted on Skool, a private community platform. When you click the button, you'll be asked to create a free Skool account – it only takes a minute. It is a safe, closed group: your membership is not visible to the public, and the content inside is only accessible to members.
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Daily check-ins, live meetings (pyjamas welcome), and a gentle space to speak their name.
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