Wings CVMA Pet Loss Support Group Online

09/25/2026

Eeyore: “Pooh… do you think there are some days you never really get over?”

Pooh: “I think there are some days we simply learn to carry, Eeyore.”

Eeyore watched the balloons disappearing into the clouds.

Eeyore: “Everyone else remembers that day as an ordinary day.”

Pooh: “But it wasn’t ordinary for you.”

Eeyore: “No. It was the day everything became ‘before’ and ‘after.’”

Pooh sat quietly beside him.

Eeyore: “The strange thing is, Pooh… the morning began like any other morning. The world didn’t warn me. The birds still sang. People still laughed. And I had no idea that by evening, I would be missing someone for the rest of my life.”

Pooh: “Perhaps that is one of the hardest things about losing someone. The world keeps being ordinary when your heart has become anything but ordinary.”

Eeyore: “I wanted the world to stop.”

Pooh: “I know.”

Eeyore: “But it didn’t.”

Pooh: “No.”

Eeyore: “Days kept coming. Seasons changed. People went home and carried on with their lives.”

Pooh: “And you?”

Eeyore lowered his head.

Eeyore: “Part of me stayed on that day.”

Pooh reached for his paw.

Pooh: “Maybe part of you always will.”

Eeyore: “Is that all right?”

Pooh: “I think so. When someone means enough to you, you don’t simply leave the day you lost them behind. You carry pieces of it with you.”

Eeyore looked toward the sky again.

Eeyore: “I would give anything for one more ordinary day with them.”

Pooh: “What would you do?”

Eeyore: “Nothing special. That’s the funny part. I’d just sit beside them. Listen to their voice. Watch them smile. And this time, I’d know how precious ordinary really was.”

Pooh moved closer.

Eeyore: “That was the worst day of my life, Pooh.”

Pooh: “Because it was their last?”

Eeyore nodded.

Pooh: “Then perhaps all the days before it deserve remembering too.”

Eeyore: “Why?”

Pooh: “Because their last day is only one page, Eeyore. Their life with you was the whole story.”

And as the balloons disappeared beyond the clouds, Eeyore kept looking upward.

Not because he was ready to let go.

But because sometimes grief is simply love looking for someone it can no longer reach.

And sometimes the hardest day of your life is the last day of someone else’s—

because you wake up the next morning and discover that somehow, impossibly, you must learn to live all the days they could not.

09/24/2026

As you might know we have a pet loss helpline, the number is 630-325-1600. You can call in to leave a brief message and phone number and a volunteer will call you back between 7-9 central time. We had a caller this week who left a number that is not working. If you have not gotten a callback please call again and leave your number so we can return your call. Please know too that we are working on adding volunteers so our schedule is a bit disorganized right now but we are working on adding the new volunteers and apologize if you don’t get a callback the same or next weekday. We keep calls in the system until a volunteer is able to reach out and connect with you.

09/07/2026

02/17/2026

02/08/2026

To those of you who stayed in the room. 🕊️

I know the weight of that memory. I know the way the silence feels after the last breath is taken. It is a burden that stays with you forever.

People often say, "I can't be there, it's too hard." And I understand that pain. But if you can find the strength, please stay.

They have spent their whole lives waiting for you to come home from work. They have spent every day watching the door for you. In their final moments, they shouldn't have to watch that door for a face that isn't coming back.

When we stay, we take their fear and we carry it for them. We make sure the last thing they know on this earth is that they were loved. It is a heartbreaking privilege, but it is the most sacred promise we keep.

02/12/2025

Have your tissues ready.

01/04/2025

When someone we love passes on, it feels like the world shifts beneath our feet. The emptiness they leave behind is overwhelming, a silence so loud it can consume us. We look for them in every shadow, every whisper of the wind, every familiar song. And yet, as much as we long for their presence, life continues, forcing us to learn a truth we never wanted to know: love doesn’t end when life does.

The people we love don’t truly leave us. They stay in the memories we carry, the lessons they taught us, the love they poured into us. Their laugh echoes in the back of our minds, their favorite phrases sneak into our conversations, and their essence lingers in the spaces they once filled.

Over time, the sharp ache of their absence softens into a bittersweet reminder of the love we shared. We begin to realize that they are not truly gone; they are woven into the fabric of who we are. Their love becomes a part of us, a quiet strength we carry through our days.

Grief doesn’t go away—it changes. It becomes a companion, a reminder of the depth of our love. We learn to live with it, not by forgetting, but by honoring. By smiling at their memory, by continuing traditions they held dear, by speaking their name with warmth instead of tears.

And though we may not see them, they are with us in ways that words can’t explain. In the quiet moments, when the world feels still, we sense them. In the milestones we wish they could witness, we feel their pride. In our hardest days, we feel the echo of their encouragement.

The love they gave us becomes our guide. It teaches us to cherish the present, to love deeply, and to never take a single moment for granted. Their absence reminds us to hold tightly to those who remain, to express our love without hesitation, and to live in a way that honors the legacy they left behind.

When people we love leave this world, they don’t leave us empty—they leave us full. Full of memories, full of lessons, full of love. And that love, even in their absence, has the power to sustain us, to heal us, and to remind us that they are never truly gone. They live on in us, in every step we take and every breath we draw.

They gave us their love, and that love remains. Always.

11/07/2024

Our Wings meeting starts tonight at 7:30 via Zoom If you have attended before you can use the same link otherwise you can email Dr. Linda Harper at [email protected] for the zoom link.