Will Rogers once said, “If dogs don’t go to heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” Over the past few years, record numbers of souls – both pets and people – have been making their transition to spirit. With each loss, our hearts become more sensitized, more tender, and the grief can sometimes feel unbearable. Yet this has also ushered in a newfound acceptance of – if not yet comfort with – formerly taboo topics such as pet reincarnation. Can your pet come back to you in a new body? If yes, how does that work exactly? Do you need to do anything specific to make it happen? Animal intuitive Shannon Cutts answers these questions and more.
Category Archives: Pet death and loss
Impossible Pet Loss and How to Get Unstuck from Grief
There is nothing like pet death to remind us of how complex the human animal truly is. We are a body. A mind. A heart. A soul or spirit (or whatever word works). This means we think. We sense. We feel. We intuit. And we grieve on each of these levels and even beyond the sum of our many moving parts. Pet death can feel like a body slam that shakes us to our foundations – to our core – creating a feedback loop of sorts that plays and replays, keeping us stuck in grief perpetually. Animal intuitive Shannon Cutts shares about how to navigate this impossible level of loss and how to get unstuck from the grief that always follows.
A Professional Animal Communicator Talks Honestly About Pet Loss and Grief
As we become more disconnected from the natural world itself and the wild lives unfolding all around us, our connections with our companion animals – our pets – are becoming deeper and more significant than ever before. We feel a closeness and kinship to our pets that we may not even feel to any other human animals in our lives. So when our pet dies, the loss can devastate us. What can we do to survive our loss? Where can we go for support? Who can we talk with for comfort? Is there anything that helps make the grief journey shorter and less painful? Professional animal intuitive Shannon Cutts tackles this intensely tough topic head-on, sharing about her own experiencing navigating crushing pet loss and grief.
Max’s Story: I Am Taking Care Of Myself, Mom
Having a soul pet – a deep bond with a companion animal – is a marvelous gift. But it can also present some pitfalls. At the heart and spirit level, there is this seamless connection. Yet at the level of the physical body, each of us has incarnated for our own personal reasons, which may require taking different paths in life. All of this can make death of a soul pet feel excruciating – to the point where we cannot let go of the grief, the guilt, the heartache. Animal communicator Shannon Cutts shares the story of how animal communication helped one grieving human reconnect with her soul dog 30 years after his death.
Jake’s Story: Next Time I Will Need Your Help
Pet death is just about the hardest experience we go through. Because the connection in life is so unconditional and deep, any sense of disturbance or disruption in that connection shakes us to our core. While this is true at any time and any age, it can be especially traumatic when we are in our younger years. And it can be exceptionally traumatic when the animal who is dying is a service dog or emotional support animal. Is there a way through pet death that won’t bring you to your knees? Jake the dog tells animal communicator Shannon Cutts that yes, there is a way.