Happy Tails : How Pets Can Help You Survive Divorce

by Julie Rogers

Happy Tails is a self-help guide to relationship recovery with helpful information about the stages of overcoming loss and establishing new intimacy. Using the compassionate bonds people make with their pets, Happy Tails interjects fresh approaches about love, companionship, and spirituality.

158 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2001

About the author

Julie Rogers's seventh novel, Falling Stars, is a thirteen-time award winner, including the 2023 International Firebird Award First Place in Urban Fantasy, the 2023 Global Book Award Bronze in Fantasy, the 2023 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Best Book in Fantasy, and the 2023 Outstanding Creator Awards First in Medical Fiction.

Julie is the 1999 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition Grand Prize Winner for her short story “House Call.”

Her stories have been featured in trade, self-help, inspirational, and fiction publications, including Writer's Digest, Coping with Cancer, Daily Meditation, Mocha Memoirs, Anotherealm, Horsethief’s Journal, Images Inscript, Complete Woman, and the annual anthology Writes of Passage: Every Woman has a Story!

She is the author of Falling Stars (urban fantasy), Happy Tails: How Pets Can Help You Survive Divorce (self-help) Simeon: A Greater Reality (spirituality) Hootie (upper elementary fiction), and Seven Shorts (neo-Noir). Julie freelances as a ghostwriter and editor for Edioak NY, authorsassistant.com, and julierogersbooks.com.

Other awards include Fade In magazine’s 2005 screenplay Semi-Finalist for the screenplay “Grave Jumper” and the 1998 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition First for the stage play comedy “Garage Sale.”

Reviews

[Lisa Benton]

This gives some great points to think about, even if you are not going through a divorce. Don't be discouraged by the title.

[Julie Rogers]

Midwest Book Review

Simply stated, Julie Rogers’ Happy Tails: How Pets Can Help You Survive Divorce is a superbly presented self-help guide for men, women and children affected by divorce. Replete with helpful information about the stages of overcoming a relationship loss and establishing new bonds of intimacy, Happy Tails is a unique, practical, effective, and very highly recommended advisory for utilizing the compassionate bonds that develop between dogs, cats, turtles, fox squirrels, as well as other pets and their human companions in establishing and acquiring love, companionship and spirituality in the face of estrangement, separation, and divorce.