The Furever Forest
Pet Loss Support & Healing Hub
About the Furever Forest
Your relationship with your pet is one of the most significant of your life.
It deserves to be honored. Here, we get that.
What is The Furever Forest?
The Furever Forest is where you can turn when you’re looking for ways to cope with the loss of your beloved pet. Find live support, therapist-curated resources, and real community with other animal lovers, all in one place online.
What brings people here.
The Ruminating
You can't stop thinking about the final days.
Whether you waited too long, or not long enough, wondering what they were thinking.
The Guilt
You keep punishing yourself.
Not just how everything unfolded, but for the first time you smile again. Or forget they’re gone.
THE FEAR
You're afraid of forgetting.
What it was like to hold them, the smell of their breath, every little thing.
the Judgment
You feel like something is wrong with you for still missing them.
It’s been a week. Then a month. Then 3 more. And you think, “shouldn’t it feel easier by now?”
The loneliness
No one can replace what you two had.
“Just get another dog.” People mean well, but they have no idea how special your bond was.
The Anticipation
They're still here, and you know what's coming.
You’re already grieving your best friend while they’re curled up beside you.
There is another way to cope. Not to get rid of the grief, but to exist alongside it.
You don’t have to choose between missing them and living your life. There are ways to tend to your pain, carry them with you, and live life fully in their honor.
When you’re ready. And at your own pace.
How this started
I’m Paige — a therapist, writer, and bereaved pet parent.
I never planned to work in pet loss. But after Squiggles died, I wrote about the stages of grief after losing a pet — mostly to make sense of it myself.
Then the messages started pouring in. From strangers. “This is exactly what I’m going through. I thought I was the only one.” And they’re still arriving.
So once I’d done my own grieving, I knew I had to bring this — this soul-creature kind of loss — into the work I do.
So I created a place to turn to when you can no longer turn to them. It started as a community, The Furever Forest Circle, and has expanded to provide educational resources, journaling, one-on-one coaching, and more.
The Furever Forest can’t replace the comfort they gave you — nothing will. But it’s somewhere you can grieve as long and as deeply as you need, find some hope that it gets easier, and celebrate the special bond you had, furever.
How did The Furever Forest get its name?
Believe it or not, from a real forest!
Before Squiggles died — while she was still here, and I was already grieving her — I spent a day in the Amsterdamse Bos Forest.
Being immersed in it had me in awe of life and death and the interconnectedness of all beings.
I felt in my bones that when Squiggles’ body eventually transitioned, she wasn’t going to be gone. She’d return to the forest. Be in the sky. The air between the trees. And in me. She’d be everywhere.
It didn’t make the grief smaller. But it did change how I carried it.
That forest became a huge part of how I was able to cope with her death. It inspired my book, It’s All the Same Forest, my work as a therapist, and then this place.
Our pets are one of the most delightful parts of being alive.
The pain of losing them deserves to be taken seriously. They deserve to be honored, and you deserve to live fully, even after they’re gone.
Not sure where to start?
Self care after losing a pet looks different. Get the free guide – it was made for the days when everything feels impossible.
"It's very hard to set aside 20 years of unconditional love given by a pet. This group understands that pain. I am so very thankful for finding The Furever Forest."
— Delores S., Honoring Minnie
Pet Grief Coaching
For one-on-one support.
If you want more personalized support, pet grief coaching offers a judgment-free space to talk, reflect, and process your loss. Together, we’ll honor your bond, navigate the pain, and find gentle ways to care for yourself—one step at a time.
Resources & gifts
For your hardest moments
Our therapist-curated pet loss guides and gifts provide support when you need it most. From grief-aware self-care to middle-of-the-night coping tools, everything is designed specifically for soulmate pet loss.