Mission Statement

We aim to change the STATUS QUO of grief and mourning.

Baby teeth, skin tone. Car keys, careers. Pets and peeps.

“Loss” is simply what happens in the course of everyday life.

Our culture’s typical reaction to it?

• “Everybody has problems, get over it.” (Suckitup, buttercup.)

• Treat it like bad luck. (Duck-‘n’-cover!)

• Hope it doesn’t land on us. (You can bet your sweet bippy, it will.)

And when someone’s hurting, what do we have to offer?

• Forgettable sorry for your loss clichés.

• Eye-rolling “time heals all wounds” platitudes.

• BS “just stop thinking about it and you’ll be fine” shortcuts.

That’s our culture’s STATUS QUO for grief and mourning.

At The GRIEF RELIEF Project we believe the STATUS QUO is overdue for an overhaul.

NOT IN IT FOR THE $$

As creator of TGRP,

• I have no interest in blowing through my hard-earned retiree/do-gooder years in pursuit of a revenue stream.

• I’ll never take a salary.

• All TGRP profits will be donated to organizations that help those four-legged critters who depend on us two-legged ones for rescue from danger and abandonment.

[501 (c)(3) status is in our future. But not until we can hire someone to take care of the voluminous paperwork.]

So why don’t we just FREEBIE* all of it?

We wish we could! But then our helping days would crash to a halt in a New York minute.

*Keep an eye out for official give-aways.
We’ll also do some unofficial ones for worthy causes.

Soothe your heartache.
Honor their devotion

Grief is personal. Never a one-size-fits-all experience. As with everything else in the world, these Survival Kits will not please all of the people all of the time.

If you purchased a Kit and wish you hadn’t

No whiny BUT WHYYYYY? No hoops to jump through. The only thing that matters is that it didn’t work for you.

Here’s how to get your 100% refund:

1. Send an email to Elaine@TheGriefReliefProject.com

2. In the Subject field: REFUND REQUEST

3. In the body of the email:

a. Name of purchaser

b. Shipping address

c. PRODUCT FOR WHICH YOU ARE REQUESTING A REFUND (i.e., Dog Loss Survival Kit, Pet Loss Survival Kit for KIDS, etc.)

d. Order number (if you have it)

e. Approximate date of purchase

4. Product evolution is our goal. So we appreciate any input you might like to share about your experience with the Kit.

What we ask in return

Lotta grief out there in the world. So PLEASE PACKAGE UP THE KIT, as best you can, and

Give It Away

• To an individual

• To an organization like a Grief Support group, Goodwill, a vet’s office—you decide

What didn’t work for you may be exactly what someone else needs to ease their heartache. Given a chance, the Kit will find a griever who’s put into the Universe a plea we’ve all issued—likely more than once in our lives:

“Please help me, I’m hurting.”

Then PAT YOURSELF ON THE BACK.
You’ve done a good deed!

“Aren’t you worried people will take advantage?”

Common question. Easy answer.

I accept responsibility for the karma I create. They get responsibility for theirs.