Resources

Most of the resources mentioned in the book are linked up here, and Liz will continue to add to this list.

Resources for Tributes

Cat sanctuary where you can choose a cat online to sponsor: CatHouseOnTheKings.com

Commissioned portraits: Bernadette E. Kazmarski offers lovely portraits and BZTat.com offers unique contemporary pop art and folk art portraits.

Urns, plaques, engraved stones, and ash-container jewelry: PerfectMemorials.com

Resources for Support and Counseling

The Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement site provides easy tools for:

Finding a local grief counselor
Finding a local pet loss support group

Once you find the name of a couple of local pet loss counselors, see if you can find any reviews of them online. Yelp.com can be helpful for reviews of service providers.

Online Support

The Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement site offers pet loss support in a live chat room with a trained moderator. There is no cost for this service.

At the time of this writing, they also have an Anticipatory Grief chat room twice per month for people with pets who have received a terminal diagnosis.

Pet Loss Counseling

Janis Seiberlich, MA, MFT – Runs a weekly drop-in pet loss support group in San Jose, California. Also available for one-on-one counseling.

Jill Goodfriend, RN, LCSW – Jill specializes in grief recovery and animal companion loss counseling. She is available for consultation by phone, office, or home visit. She facilitates grief support groups in the San Francisco bay area.

Special Counseling for Those Troubled by Difficult Memories

Feeling haunted by upsetting memories or images is a trauma symptom. If this is something you are struggling with, consider finding a pet loss counselor with EMDR training, or other training that addresses trauma. See EMDR.com for more information.

Resources on NDEs & After Death Communication

NEW Near Death Experience Stories | Reunited with Pets (Youtube)

NEW An End to Upside Down Thinking by Mark Gober

NEW Where is My Mind? podcas t (Mark’s podcast series based on the book–check out his episode on NDEs)

Cat Body, Cat Mind by Dr. Michael Fox

Dr. Michael Fox’s website articles, DrFoxVet.com/info

“Can Mediums Really Talk to the Dead?,” Julie Beischel, PhD and Dean Radin, PhD, Noetic.org

Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences by Jeffrey Long, M.D., and Paul Perry

Dying to Be Me by Anita Moorjani (Her abbreviated NDE story is also on her website at AnitaMoorjani.com)

Windbridge Institute for Applied Research: Windbridge.org has a list of carefully screened after-death communicators (mediums). Some may provide communication with animals.

Animal communicator: Sharon Callahan, Anaflora.com. Recommended for the spiritually minded.

NEW Research on Survival of Consciousness After Death

Beischel & Schwartz (2007). Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol (Download PDF)
Greyson (2010). Seeing Dead People Not Known to Have Died: “Peak in Darien” Experiences (Download PDF)
Kelly (2010). Some Directions for Mediumship Research (Download PDF)
Kelly & Arcangel (2011). An Investigation of Mediums Who Claim to Give Information About Deceased Persons (Download PDF)
Nahm et al (2011). Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection (Download PDF)
Facco & Agrillo (2012). Near-death experiences between science and prejudice (Download PDF)

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