Grief Year

A Digital Companion for Life After Pet Loss

Because Our Love Doesn’t End with Goodbye

Grieving the loss of a pet doesn’t follow a timeline. It can resurface with each season, memory, or quiet moment.

Grief Year is a self-paced, digital grief guide designed to support you through that ongoing process — gently and practically.

This guide offers reflection, ritual, and creative ways to stay connected to your pet, while making space for your grief in whatever form it takes.

What’s Inside?

With your purchase of the Grief Year Guide, you’ll receive an instantly downloadable PDF that includes:

  • An 18-page printable grief guide organized by season

  • 7 audio recordings to guide you through somatic and meditative practices

  • Journal prompts to help you process your grief in writing

  • 4 printable coloring pages to calm your nervous system and create space for expression

  • Mini-rituals that can be done at home, on a walk, or wherever you feel most grounded

There’s no timeline and no “right way” to grieve.
This guide is yours to move through slowly, in your own time.

This guide is for you if:

  • You’re grieving the loss of an animal companion

  • You are navigating the complex grief of working or volunteering in animal welfare or veterinary medicine

  • You want meaningful rituals and reflections, without feeling overwhelmed

  • You appreciate practical, heartfelt guidance over clinical advice

You don’t need to be in any specific “stage” of grief to benefit. If you carry the ache of loss, this guide is for you.

Everyone deserves access to grief care.

To make this guide as accessible as possible, I’ve set it up as Pay What You Can between $22-55. You’ll receive the full guide, no matter what you pay.

If cost is a barrier, please visit our community funding page—we’re committed to making this offering available for all who need it.

Pay What You Can Pricing

Katie Rapkock smiling while hiking with her dogs, Lily and Champ, on a scenic trail.

A note from the creator(s):

I created the Grief Year Guide because I know how lonely and complicated grief can feel — especially after the loss of an animal companion. It often goes unseen or minimized, but that doesn’t mean it disappears.

This guide is something you can carry with you. Not as a way to move on — but as a way to stay connected, to slow down, and to care for yourself in the process.

Wherever you are in your grief, I hope the Grief Year Guide meets you with compassion.

— Katie (human hehe), Champ, + Lilly