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Beth Bigler

Beth Bigler

Beth Bigler is a double-certified pet loss grief counselor, author of "Honoring Our Animals: 365 Meditations for Healing After Pet Loss," and founder of Honoring Our Animals.

Sep 7, 2026

20:34
Well,
20:34
here's Arnie.
20:35
For those of you on videos, my soulmate, Arnie, who kind of started this whole journey with me that we are on together, supporting others.
20:42
And, you know, Arnie is my soulmate.
20:44
Arnie's my rock, my constant.
20:46
And when he was Earthside, he filled this huge, many roles in my life.
20:50
And unfortunately, when he was 11, which is pretty young for a kitty in my eyes, he had a horrible diagnosis and a kind of unusual cancer.

5 MINS LATER

26:07
And I'd love your thought on how you actually can connect to your companion animal, your pet, after they leave, after they transition, what that could look like.
30:56
That's a whole nother-
30:56
[laughs] And this is very complicated.
30:58
First of all, I will s- I really wanna normalize something here about surviving animals.
31:02
Um, one of the most taboo things that, that many people feel, and I, I am fully ready...
31:09
I normalize this all the time 'cause this was my experience.
31:11
I had a surviving cat.
31:12
Her name is, was Zelda.

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Would you, how do you think they could communicate it to someone if they don't get it, and/or have you found support groups to also be helpful for this?

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