How to ROAR: Pet Loss Grief Recovery: Pet Loss Grief Recovery

by Robin Jean Brown

Robin Jean Brown understands firsthand the deep bond that can develop between person and animal. She's not some cold psychologist, but rather a pet owner herself who dealt with her own painful journey through the grieving process. She found that there wasn't a lot of help for her. Other books are either too cold and clinical...or they're too sad, and just make you cry harder. And none of them had workbook-style questions to guide her through her journey.

So Robin wrote the guide herself – to deal with your grief, effectively and step by step. She is personal, empathetic, and comforting – yet at the same time she'll help you move through your grief. Her special book will introduce you to a revolutionary way of coping with pet loss. Robin developed and delicately refined a 4 step technique for coping with pet loss that she coined “ROAR”.

Genres: Animals, Psychology

142 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2005

Reviews

[Katrina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a helpful book/workbook. I appreciate that it wasn't filled with sad stories meant to tug at the heart. Instead I found experiences and steps I could take to help with the grief I feel.

[Anja Fruelund · Rating 4 out of 5]

I generally don’t do self-help books, but I recently lost one of my cats and needed a way to handle it. So I stumbled over this and thought why not? And I’m glad I did. It is easy to go to, with explanations on grief and it’s stages and offers methods and exercises in order to work through the loss of a beloved pet. Some of these I had already started doing instinctively, others were a way of better understanding what was going on and how to deal with it and all the questions about what to do when your pet has died - it happened so suddenly in my case that there were a lot things that I hadn’t considered and a lot thoughts and questions that kept milling about in my head along with a lot guilt and doubt. It is at times a bit over the top, but in general and because this is a very sensitive issue I found it to be a very sober and helpful way to guide you when you have lost a beloved companion.

[J Crossley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Work Through Grief

This workbook provides information a out a part of the grief process, and then asks corresponding questions to get you thinking. There is also space for you to journal.