Sacred Sendoffs, Sarah A. Bowen
Sacred Sendoffs, Sarah A. Bowen
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Sacred Sendoffs
An Animal Chaplain’s Advice for Surviving Animal Loss, Making Life Meaningful, and Healing the Planet

Author: Sarah A. Bowen

Narrator: Stina Nielsen

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/11/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals

Synopsis

An elegant manifesto for improving life—and death—for all beings on sacred Mother Earth

Combining humorous anecdotes and thought-provoking research, Sacred Sendoffs explores human relationships with beloved pets, wild creatures, animal astronauts, marine life, farmed animals, and other sentient beings. Along the way, animal chaplain Sarah Bowen shares insights for sustaining their lives, honoring deaths, and managing the emotions that arise when we lose an animal we love. While many books focus exclusively on pet loss, animal welfare, or environmental issues, Bowen's ever curious and playful style takes on all three, revealing their unavoidable entanglement. Sacred Sendoffs helps animal lovers uncover practical actions and everyday opportunities for helping the more-than-human world thrive.

About Sarah A. Bowen

Sarah A. Bowen is an animal chaplain and advocate for all creatures. She offers workshops on interspecies mindfulness practices, works with humans around animal grief/loss, and advocates for exploited and endangered species within both religious and secular contexts. You can often find her huddled over wildlife struck by cars, giving them a sacred sendoff. Bowen is also a cofounder of Compassion Consortium, the first interfaith, interspiritual, and interspecies faith community, an academic dean at One Spirit Interfaith Seminary; a columnist on animal/human relationships for Spirituality & Health magazine; and the author of two award-winning books on modern spirituality, including Spiritual Rebel. Her work has also appeared in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Elephant Journal, mindbodygreen, and on a wide range of podcasts. She holds a BA in human ecology, MA in religious studies, and is joyfully engaged in postgraduate research in humane religious studies and anthrozoology.

Reviews

Goodreads review by debbicat *made of stardust* on May 22, 2022

All the ⭐️! So well written and researched. My signed copy came in right on time by the author. It went right on my favorites bookshelf alongside my Sophie and Bella’s ashes. Animals have thoughts, feelings, large interior lives. The book has just been released ( April 2022) and I will add some quot......more

Goodreads review by Julie on June 08, 2022

Sacred Sendoffs by Sarah Bowen definitely got me thinking about my place in the animal kingdom, how I treat animals, and how to be a more conscious consumer. It is a personal book in which data and facts are interwoven with the author’s childhood memories and anecdotes. Concrete suggestions are prov......more

Goodreads review by Alexis on April 24, 2022

Disclaimer: I received an ARC of this book via Goodreads giveaway. I recently lost my baby Ava Grace (a rescued toy poodle) in January 2022. So when I saw this book listed on the giveaway page, I knew I had to enter to win a copy. I'm very glad I found this book. I couldn't have found it at a more per......more

Goodreads review by Dani on August 25, 2024

I found this book to be so helpful in processing my beloved pet’s passing. It offered a lot of information I had never known about the practicalities of losing a pet (and other non domestic animals) but in a way that also helped me to process and heal. I have purchased this for many friends now who......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on July 11, 2022

I received this book as part of a Goodreads giveaway. I lost my little guy in 2020 and my world has not been the same. Reading this helped me start to heal.......more

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