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griefPets 1st Tactile griefKit for pet loss support. Specially-designed stuffed animals to help honor & heal. Animals are in my soul.
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I have been an animal lover since I can remember…my first memories are when I was about 18 months and I would crawl outside to play with our 2 cocker spaniels, Cindy and Flop, in their dog house in our backyard. I was an avid reader of books and encyclopedias on dogs and horses all during my teen years, and knew most breeds of both. I have been blessed with 12 dogs, 1 bunny, 2 house cats and nume

rous strays. in 2014, I had to unexpectedly euthanize both of my dogs within 6 months of each other. The first was my 9 year old, Maggie, and the second was my 13 year old baby, Lola. The night I euthanized Maggie was one of the hardest times in my life or so I thought, subsequently six months I lost my precious Lola. It was then that I found my deepest grief. For the first time I found myself childless. Sleeping became very difficult for me and I was at a loss. That week my four year old niece handed me her very special stuffed animal that she slept with every night and said “Yaya sleep with this.” I was brought to tears by her gesture and gave her the biggest hug. That night I cuddled it the way I did Maggie and Lola and was able to drift off and sleep peacefully through the night. When I woke up the next morning, the idea came to me…a “griefpuppy”. Something to give one comfort and solace during their time of loss. After hours of endlessly searching the internet I realized what I had to do, not just for me but for others in the same situation. After two years in the making, griefPets is the first tactile transitional tool to help people cope with the grief over the death of a pet. The griefKit includes: a stuffed animal, griefPuppy or griefKitty, designed with “healing emotions” in mind, to ignite hearts with happiness, peace, and relief. The pets have a safe microwavable heating pack to help calm and soothe the griever, nurture the soul. The heat pack also gives the pets a more realistic feel than a fluffy stuffed animal. On the chest, there is a hidden pocket to encapsulate mementos and a heart shaped frame for a picture of your beloved pet. The workbook was authored by a licensed therapist, Amy Shore, to assist the griever through the process of grief. The workbook is designed for the griever to journal memories and emotions to honor their pet and the special bond shared…our fur-babies are never “replaceable”, we forever hold them in our hearts.

TODAY, 3 pm, The Long Haul Grief Support for pet loss at Pet Passages - Lafayette, La.
11/08/2024

TODAY, 3 pm, The Long Haul Grief Support for pet loss at Pet Passages - Lafayette, La.

For the month of August our support group will be held on Sunday the 18th. This group is for anyone and everyone who is struggling with losing or the loss of a pet. This is open to all and there is no fee to attend.

Please contact Catherine @ 337.534.0098 with any questions or to RSVP

https://www.facebook.com/share/36rmrU6evibXkqKF/

This coming Sunday 7.21.24 at Pet Passages - Lafayette, La 🌈🐾~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Join us f...
17/07/2024

This coming Sunday 7.21.24 at Pet Passages - Lafayette, La 🌈🐾
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Join us for our monthly led by thanatologist, Kristen Kahanek Lafleur 💛
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Reminder!

This Sunday will be our July session of our support group. If you or anyone you may know finds themselves struggling with the loss of a pet we are here for you. There is no fee to attend this group.

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Sharing a healing tip for your   from AHELP Project 🌈🐾💛What song is on your   playlist?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
17/07/2024

Sharing a healing tip for your from AHELP Project 🌈🐾💛
What song is on your playlist?
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Grief is work, today and every day.
For Grief Work Day, we share a prompt for you to reflect on for a few minutes.
- What's on your Grief playlist?
- Star the songs you wish you could play with your loved one who died.
- Score yourself with extra credit to pull up the song and think of your loved one.
Sending

11/07/2024

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Don't miss out on this heart opening conversation about will talking with griefPets about end-of-life-care with our companion animals & how to 🌈🐾💛
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11/07/2024

Tune in tonight for our 🎥
Don't miss this heart-opening conversation about Heart and Soul Pet Connection will be talking with griefPets about end of life with our companion animals & how to heal your heart.
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16/06/2024

Update for our pet loss support session tomorrow. 🐾

Happy PAWthers Day to all the PAWsome dads out there! 💖

Our next   is coming up on Sunday, June 16th, 3 pm at Pet Passages - Lafayette, La. 🌈🐾❤️‍🩹
05/06/2024

Our next is coming up on Sunday, June 16th, 3 pm at Pet Passages - Lafayette, La. 🌈🐾❤️‍🩹

Our June session of the Pet Loss Support Group will be held on Sunday June 16th at 3pm.

This is a free session for anyone struggling with the loss of a pet.

RSVP - [email protected]

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1467817370496878/

31/03/2024

Happy Easter & PAWsome blessings for NEW beginnings ✨🐣🐰🦋
Bunda sends his love 💘
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27/03/2024

Visualize a table in front of an open window. There are stacks of paper on the table, tidy, organized stacks. A slight breeze comes through the window and rustles the papers, now a strong wind comes through and scatters the papers everywhere.
The above image is what grieving is like. Some days you do just fine; have it all together. Other days you feel restless; uneasy but go about your day. Then some days you can’t even get out of bed without crying. You look through pictures and deeply miss your person. The next day, you brush yourself off and begin again.
Grief is a lot of emotions rolled into one package.

AHELP Project 💖🐾
27/03/2024

AHELP Project 💖🐾

We are the Animal Hospice and End-of-Life, and Palliative Care Project! Palliative Care means COMFORT for you and your dog or cat. We are a nonprofit that wants for the world what pet parents like us all want: to bring comfort to our animals during this bittersweet time. But it can also be a beautiful time! And how? By walking beside one another during the journey from health decline and the rollercoaster of terminal illness, weighing your treatment options, and keeping a close eye on comfort and dignity, you and your animal family member will achieve quality of life together.

Check us out 🐶💛Canvas Rebel Magazine reached out to interview us on our journey to creating griefPets     🌈🐾✨~~~~~~~~~~~...
15/03/2024

Check us out 🐶💛
Canvas Rebel Magazine reached out to interview us on our journey to creating griefPets 🌈🐾✨
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If you, or anyone you know, going through please DM us, we have resources for 💖
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is available for purchase online 💝



Alright - so today we've got the honor of introducing you to Amy LeBlanc. We think you'll enjoy our conversation, we've shared it below. Amy, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. How did you come up with the idea for your business? The idea for griefPets was an epiphany that came to...

02/03/2024

To See Through The Eyes Of The Heart ~ Kerri Lake Generation Of Harmony
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There is one thing that is common between all humans and all forms of life. It is our own connection to, what is to me, the heart - all of life has the capacity to connect with one another in this multidimensional space.

Regardless of species, connection is an option. If even for one moment, where there is an acknowledgement of one another’s presence, connection is always waiting to be recognized.

Recognition of one another’s presence is like lighting a flame. I show up and simply shine, “Here I am!” and your presence shines back acknowledging,”There you are, and here I am!” Connection is hard-wired. It’s physiological. It’s spiritual. It is practical magic. It is a word we use in parallel with bonding, pairing and listening. It is nourishment on every level of being.

In current social turmoil, there are great disruptive efforts being forced into collective consciousness to steer awareness toward various things other than connection, selling the perspective of “us” versus “the others.” There are many messages suggesting that you need to take a side, to stand for one thing or its opposite, to be against something and for something else. The messages invite you to believe you are powerless in the face of insurmountable chaos.

Yet connection through the heart waits as eagerly as a three year old at someone else’s birthday party to help unwrap the gifts in our hearts. It waits with joyous anticipation to be acknowledged, because it knows the eyes of the heart offer the light and the way.

Looking through the eyes of the heart, we find connection waiting for recognition within ourselves before we ever look to find it in others. Behind the identity, beneath the personality, your uniqueness travels like a steady undercurrent. When someone sees you through the eyes of the heart, the undercurrent surges toward the light. It’s a feeling that can be life-giving and terrifying at the same time. And when you see another through the eyes of the heart, you offer them that same gift of divinely exquisite expansion.

The heart is always reaching through your identity, through who you think you are. Before there was an ego, or an identity or a personality, there was You, the uniqueness that is the one looking through the lens of the heart. Your uniqueness is the only one who can see the world the way you do, who can see kindness and beauty the way you do, who can bring compassion to darkness the way you do. You are the one that can recognize the ego, the identity, the personality and offer them each a love that quenches the desperate thirst to remember who you truly are.

Connection is a presence you generate through your relationship with yourself. Like anything in nature, once you generate that fruit, it is meant to be shared. Through the eyes of the heart, it gets perpetually easier to recognize the same nature in others.

Love this & so true 🌈🐾💖Creature Comforts:In Home Pet Hospice & Euthanasia
02/12/2023

Love this & so true 🌈🐾💖Creature Comforts:In Home Pet Hospice & Euthanasia

Shared from Relaxation & Wellness Therapeutics. 💛The holidays can be rough when you are grieving the loss of a loved one...
04/11/2023

Shared from Relaxation & Wellness Therapeutics. 💛

The holidays can be rough when you are grieving the loss of a loved one, currently facing the dying process of a loved one or even the loss of a marriage. Sometimes just shutting out the noise of the world and taking time for yourself can make a difference in a big way. We have two separate retreats available to help you cope with loss during the holidays!! When the road of life takes a sudden turn, let us walk beside you.

Call for more information 337- 654-1979

Relaxation & Wellness Therapeutics LLC in Lafayette, La. offers various workshops and retreats that support deep introspection and self-discovery.

Going to bed feeling rejuvenated & grateFULL for a beautiful day of new connections & animal love at the   Pet Remembran...
11/09/2023

Going to bed feeling rejuvenated & grateFULL for a beautiful day of new connections & animal love at the Pet Remembrance Celebration & Blessing of the Pets put on by Pet Nanny Sarah LLC & Pet Passages 💗🐾

Excited to be a part of this special  🌈🐾💛 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Pet Nanny Sarah LLC & Pet Passages - Lafayette, La
07/09/2023

Excited to be a part of this special 🌈🐾💛
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Pet Nanny Sarah LLC & Pet Passages - Lafayette, La

Sarah Wiehe, Owner of Pet Nanny Sarah LLC, joined NEws15 at Noon to share the details of her inaugural event honoring the pets in our lives that've crossed the rainbow

Looking forward to being a part of this upcoming   event at Pet Passages - Lafayette, La 🌈🐾
26/08/2023

Looking forward to being a part of this upcoming event at Pet Passages - Lafayette, La 🌈🐾

Don’t forget to save the date for our first annual Pet Remembrance Celebration & Blessing of the Pets coming up!

We still have availability for volunteers, vendors as well as sponsors if interested in participating please email Catherine at [email protected]

This is a beautiful idea 🌈🐾
26/08/2023

This is a beautiful idea 🌈🐾

What a beautiful tribute 💙💙💙

Thank you Lafayette Veterinary Care Center for promoting & supporting griefPets, to help people honor their pets & heal ...
22/08/2023

Thank you Lafayette Veterinary Care Center for promoting & supporting griefPets, to help people honor their pets & heal their hearts. 🌈🐾💛
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Amy LeBlanc, a Lafayette local, saw the need to help individuals and families work through the process of grief after losing a pet. After losing two pups of her own, she came up with griefPets - a first of its kind grief kit.

The griefPets kit includes a specially designed stuffed animal to memorialize a beloved pet, with a picture frame, pocket to hold precious keepsakes, and a removable heat pack that gives the animal substantial weight and warmth. You can even add your pet's collar around the neck. A doctor formulated journal with questions to validate your emotions and help you to honor your pet's life is also included in each kit.

griefPets is a wonderful gift to give to a family member or friend when you don't know exactly what to say or do. With every griefKit purchased, $1 will be donated to the IAAHPC (International Association for Animal Hospice & Palliative Care) to help raise awareness for pet hospice & the beauty of end-of-life-care. For more information visit www.griefpets.com

I’m starting off 2023 with renewed energy, strength in my being, feelings of completeness & ready to pick up where I lef...
06/01/2023

I’m starting off 2023 with renewed energy, strength in my being, feelings of completeness & ready to pick up where I left off years ago.

Thank you Debbey Ryan of the Lafayette Women's Chamber of Commerce for your mentorship. Looking forward to the future, with a purpose! 💛

Thank you 🙏 Amber Geesey atLafayette Veterinary Care Center for donating "One Complete Spa Day" for our Supply DriveCele...
01/12/2022

Thank you 🙏 Amber Geesey at
Lafayette Veterinary Care Center for donating "One Complete Spa Day" for our Supply Drive
Celebration & Animal Adoption supporting Animal Rescue Foundation of Louisiana - ARFLA

JOIN US 🐾 THIS Saturday, December 3rd from 11am-2pm at Elite Roofing Supply- Louisiana 308 Galbert Rd, Lafayette, Louisiana 🥳

Dronation drop-off can be made at Salon des Amis until Friday, Dec 2nd or you can deliver in person, at our event on Saturday, AND enjoy the festivities…delicious homemade jambalaya, hot chocolate, face painting for the kids, raffle prizes, & more! 🐕

CAN’T MAKE IT & still want to ? Online donations can be made via their Venmo or Amazon Wish List scan codes below! 🙏
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I have been an animal lover since I can remember…my first memories are when I was about 18 months and I would crawl outside to play with our 2 cocker spaniels, Cindy and Flop, in their dog house in our backyard. I was an avid reader of books and encyclopedias on dogs and horses all during my teen years, and knew most breeds of both. I have been blessed with 12 dogs, 1 bunny, 2 house cats and numerous strays. Animals are in my soul. in 2014, I had to unexpectedly euthanize both of my dogs within 6 months of each other. The first was my 9 year old, Maggie, and the second was my 13 year old baby, Lola. The night my husband and I euthanized Maggie was one of the hardest times in our lives or so I thought, subsequently six months I lost my precious Lola. It was then that I found my deepest grief. For the first time I found myself childless. Sleeping became very difficult for me and I was at a loss. That week my four year old niece handed me her very special stuffed animal that she slept with every night and said “Yaya sleep with this.” I was brought to tears by her gesture and gave her the biggest hug. That night I cuddled it the way I did Maggie and Lola and was able to drift off and sleep peacefully through the night. When I woke up the next morning, the idea came to me…a “griefpuppy”. Something to give one comfort and solace during their time of loss. After hours of endlessly searching the internet I realized what I had to do, not just for me but for others in the same situation. After two years in the making, griefpets is the first tactile transitional tool to help people cope with the grief over the death of a pet. The grief-kit includes: a stuffed animal, griefpuppy or griefkitty, designed with “healing emotions” in mind, to ignite hearts with happiness, peace, and relief. The pets have a safe microwavable heating pack to help calm and soothe the griever, nurture the soul. The heat pack also gives the pets a more realistic feel than a fluffy stuffed animal. On the chest, there is a hidden pocket to encapsulate mementos and a heart shaped frame for a picture of your beloved pet. The workbook was authored by a licensed, certified grief therapist, Amy Shore, to assist the griever through the process of grief. The workbook is designed for the griever to journal memories and emotions to honor their pet and the special bond shared…our fur-babies are never “replaceable”, we forever hold them in our hearts.