PET LOSS W/ Sid Korpi

ANIMAL SPIRIT: Tonight my guest, author Sid Korpi

Sid Korpi has combined her decades of varied professional experience — as an editor, writer, journalist, English teacher, actor, and ordained minister/animal chaplain — with her lifelong devotion to the animal companions who have blessed and shared her life in creating Good Grief: Finding Peace After Pet Loss. Surviving a "tsunami of loss" in her own life led to her discovery of spiritual truths that brought her strength and facilitated her heart's healing. She felt compelled to share these things with others who suffer — often in isolation — from the passing on of their very dearest nonhuman friends, their pets.

She notes, "Unfortunately, our society on the whole discounts their grief as frivolous since they've 'merely lost an animal.' People often report that they got over the death of a fellow human being easier than they did that of their pet simply because they were given permission to really grieve over the human and thus found the support they needed to process those feelings. This same support is often sorely lacking when the intense feelings of sorrow are a result of pet loss."