by Sasha Riess | 27.08.26. | Emotions
Losing a beloved dog is one of the most painful and emotionally overwhelming experiences any owner can endure. When the inevitable moment of goodbye arrives, we naturally feel a deep need to bring years of companionship to a meaningful close.
In those difficult moments, many people wonder how they can honor their faithful friend with dignity. Is burying a dog the right way to express gratitude for a lifetime of unconditional love?
Emotionally, most of us answer that question with an immediate „yes.“ We long for a place where we can return, leave a flower, and quietly remember the life we shared.
What Do the Law and Public Health Regulations Say About Burying a Dog?
While our hearts search for peace, the law often presents a different reality. In many places, public health regulations prohibit burying a dog in a private backyard or on public land. Many owners are unaware that doing so may violate local regulations designed to protect public health and environmental standards.
Each municipality has its own procedures and authorized veterinary services responsible for handling the remains of deceased animals. Consequently, many owners find themselves caught between their emotional needs and legal requirements regarding burying a dog.
Euthanasia: The Final Act of Love and Compassion
During this difficult journey of saying goodbye, many owners eventually face one of the hardest decisions of their lives. There comes a time when age or illness takes over, and we can no longer bear to watch our beloved companion suffer.
Choosing euthanasia in those moments does not represent an act of giving up. Instead, it often serves as the final act of compassion and unconditional love. We willingly carry the emotional pain ourselves so that our dogs no longer have to endure physical suffering. Therefore, this decision demands extraordinary courage, selflessness, and love.
THE GREATEST MEMORIAL LIVES WITHIN OUR HEARTS AND IN THE GRATITUDE WE CARRY FORWARD.
A Meaningful Goodbye Helps the Healing Process
Honoring the life of a beloved dog represents an expression of love, but owners must also understand and respect the legal framework that exists within their communities. Fortunately, a meaningful farewell does not rely solely on a physical resting place.
A Lasting Tribute Lives in Gratitude
Whatever limitations the law may impose, the true meaning of this final farewell remains unchanged. Burying a dog is not the only way to honor a life so deeply loved. The greatest memorial does not rest beneath the earth or stand carved into stone; it lives within our hearts.
The moment we accept the natural cycle of life and death, we create space for lasting gratitude rather than endless sorrow. Ultimately, honor your faithful companion by carrying forward the love, kindness, and compassion they brought into your life. Simultaneously, continue sharing those precious gifts with the world around you.
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by Sasha Riess | 21.08.26. | Emotions
Facing the final chapter of a beloved companion’s life represents one of the most difficult experiences any owner can endure. During those heavy moments, the subject of euthanasia often arises, bringing painful decisions and profound emotions. Yet, choosing a conscious and dignified farewell carries a very different spiritual meaning.
My personal belief remains that, whenever possible, a dog should be allowed to complete its natural journey. No matter how difficult those final moments may prove for us, I believe our role requires us to stay with your dog until the end. We must find the inner strength to walk those last steps together.
Finding the Strength for a Final Goodbye
Our dogs deserve to feel our unwavering love and presence during their final moments. For that reason, we must remain strong enough to gently let them know that the time has come for their journey to continue. Consequently, they must feel completely free to follow their own path.
This decision may require us to accept one of the most painful goodbyes we will ever experience. Only those who fully embrace both love and loss manage to remain present without turning away. Therefore, true devotion means we do not run from grief. Instead, we honor this bond by sharing our companion’s final breath with courage and compassion.
Accepting Death as Part of Life
The essence of life includes not only learning how to live fully, but also learning how to accept its natural ending. This truth applies not only to our own mortality, but also to the people and animals we love most. Simultaneously, death touches every single living being.
Only when we begin to accept death as a natural part of life’s cycle can the passing of a beloved companion become more than a traumatic event. Ultimately, it transforms into an act of profound love, gratitude, and peaceful release.
OFFERING YOUR CALM PRESENCE IS THE GREATEST FINAL GIFT OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.
The Final Gift You Can Give
Stepping away from death before its natural conclusion may sometimes reflect our own internal difficulty in facing loss. Throughout their lives, dogs teach us unconditional love without asking for anything in return. Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer in return involves our decision to stay with your dog until the end when they need us most.
Do not turn away when the moment becomes painful. Hold their paw. Stay close. Allow them to leave this world knowing they fulfilled their purpose and were deeply, completely loved.
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by Sasha Riess | 11.08.26. | Emotions
For something new to emerge, something old must be released. That process rarely feels pleasant. It carries uncertainty, fear, and a deep sense of loss. But, like in the well-known story of the eagle, it may represent the only way to survive and continue forward.
The Lesson of the Eagle: Vulnerability as the Path to Survival
After decades of life, the eagle reaches a point where its wings become heavy, its claws dull, and its beak too long for hunting. Consequently, it then retreats to an isolated place and does the unimaginable: it tears out its own feathers, breaks its claws, and strikes its beak against a rock until it shatters completely.
During this period, it cannot fly, cannot feed itself, and stands completely exposed to predators.
Therefore, if it does not go through this painful process, it will not survive. However, if it successfully completes this challenge, it gains decades more life.
The Brain’s Resistance to a New Life
Every movement of a spiritual being toward an inner awakening through physical reality brings discomfort to the body and mind. This is the exact moment of inner awakening when a person becomes most afraid of everything. Your brain and your body are programmed to survive within what remains familiar, and they will strongly resist every change that leaves them “without a beak and feathers.”
Like in the well-known story of the eagle, transformation may be the only way to survive and continue forward.
Yet it is precisely in that darkness, when we stop relying on old patterns, that life begins to appear before us in an entirely new form. Simultaneously, what frightens us the most often constitutes exactly what transforms us. Do not retreat from the pain of transformation. Ultimately, it serves as a clear sign that the old armor is falling away to make space for the wings that will carry you forward.
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by Sasha Riess | 02.08.26. | Emotions
We often say, “It’s fine, it can stay like this.” We survived without money, and we survived without enlightenment, so why would we change anything now? However, it is precisely that survival instinct that becomes our greatest obstacle to emotional growth. The human brain constantly prefers what remains familiar, even when that exact familiarity hurts us deeply or keeps us severely limited.
Perspective Depends on Where You Stand
Arguing about whose view of the world is correct remains completely meaningless as long as you do not stand where the other person stands. Until you step entirely out of your old “role” and look at life from a different angle, you simply will not see new possibilities.
Therefore, the problem is not that we cannot do more in our lives.
The problem is that we have become completely accustomed to less. That old “movie” we keep replaying in our mind quickly becomes a prison we are afraid to leave, because stepping out of it feels highly uncertain and often uncomfortable.
The Result That Changes Everything
Although stepping out of the old skin feels deeply frightening at first, it inevitably brings results that are almost immediate. Anyone who gathers the courage to step into the unknown quickly begins to see profound change, first in their dogs, and then simultaneously in their entire life.
Dogs act as remarkable detectors of our inner transformation. Consequently, the moment we stop playing the role of the victim or the survivor, they begin to thrive beautifully. Do not allow your own mind to convince you that “less” is enough. Ultimately, step into a new story, because the real results are waiting for you right on the other side of fear.
Step into a new story, because the results are waiting for you on the other side of fear.
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by Sasha Riess | 29.07.26. | Emotions
There is something people constantly try to avoid. Not because they do not know, but because they deeply feel it. And what they feel is often the exact opposite of what they want to believe. That is where the space for lies is created. Not the spoken kind, but the lived kind. Quiet, everyday, wrapped tightly in normality.
Love without a future is exactly that kind of lie. It looks like a relationship. It has form, words, and routine. It has messages, touches, and plans that are never realized. Promises that hang in the air remain strong enough to keep someone there, but never concrete enough to come true. And in that space between what is and what will never be, tension is inevitably created. Consequently, a dog does not live in the story. A dog lives directly in the field.
When that woman came to me, she did not come because of a bad marriage or a lack of love. Instead, she came because of her dog. It is always like that. People rarely come because of the truth. They come because of symptoms. Her dog was mounting her leg. Not occasionally. Not randomly. But persistently, almost obsessively, as if it were trying to release something it could not express otherwise. And that was the focus.
Sterilization did not help, even though most of you reading this probably thought of that first. Two veterinarians and a trainer advised her to sterilize the dog, which she did, because it seemed logical. And perhaps it is logical when we observe symptoms in a linear way.
Symptom or Message: What Is the Dog Really Saying?
In the classical approach, experts would explain this through energy, dominance, or excitement. Therefore, she was also advised to walk the dog more, to tire it out, to correct it, to ignore it. All of that sounds logical. And all of it completely misses the point.
Because the dog was not trying to “behave.” The dog was trying to communicate. In the order of harmony, especially in work with systems where the dog is not separate from the human but deeply connected to their inner state, such behavior carries weight. It does not come from the dog, but through the dog. Mounting is a physical expression of sexual energy that is not in its place, a suppressed, misdirected, destructive sexuality. This is a sentence that sounds uncomfortable to most people. However, discomfort does not mean it is not true.
When sexual energy moves outside of its natural flow, when it does not belong to the relationship in which it should exist, it becomes wrapped in a system of lies and seeks a way to express itself. If people cannot or do not want to face it, something else will do it for them. Very often, that is the dog.
In that specific case, there was love without a future. A relationship that was not acknowledged, not defined, that had no place. Perhaps an affair. Perhaps an emotional connection that remained hidden. Perhaps a relationship that should have ended but did not. Such “love” does not disappear. It remains in the field. And it seeks a way out.
Truth and Love Without a Future Surface Through the Dog
The dog is often that outlet. It did not understand “who is with whom.” It did not know about marriage, fidelity, or social norms. But it felt the tension. It felt energy that had no place. And through its body, it tried to regulate it. That is why it was mounting. Not because it was “badly behaved,” but because it was accurate.
When I told her that either she or her husband had someone else, a lover, I did not say it to provoke her. I said it because the field had already shown it. The dog had already shown it. She reacted like most people do when truth touches them before they are ready. With resistance. With anger. She left, convinced I did not know what I was talking about, insisting that her marriage was perfect and that everything in her life was fine.
The moment we stop seeing the dog as a problem and see it as a signal, everything changes.
But truth has one quality that no lie has. It does not disappear. It can be ignored, suppressed, rationalized. But it remains. And sooner or later, it surfaces. Six months later, it did. Her husband was having an affair. Their marriage had become a relationship without a future. A connection that could not become anything more, yet was strong enough to disrupt everything that existed. They divorced. He left.
And what is most interesting to someone who does not understand how this works, the dog stopped mounting on the very same day her now ex-husband left the apartment. Without a single intervention. Without training. Without “behavioral work.” Why? Because there was no longer a lie to expose.
The Dog as a Mirror of Inner Integrity
When the system integrates, when things are placed where they belong, the dog no longer needs to speak. Its role in that context ends. And this is where we arrive at something most people do not want to accept. The dog as a mirror does not reveal lies because it “knows the truth.” It reveals them because it cannot not feel them.
Unlike a human, who can live between what they feel, what they say, and what they live, a dog is always in unity with what is. That is why it becomes a mirror. Not of what you want to see, but of what you are trying to hide.
Love without a future always carries tension. Because deep inside, we all know when something has no direction. When it has no movement. When it has no place in time. That is when we begin to live in the illusion of maintaining something. But the system does not support that. It seeks order. It seeks clarity. It seeks truth.
If we do not bring it consciously, it will emerge unconsciously. Through conflict. Through illness. Through behavior. Or through a dog that begins to mount its owner’s leg. That is why the question is never what the dog is doing. The question is what the dog is showing.
Because the moment we stop seeing the dog as a problem and begin to see it as a signal, everything changes. Not because we “fixed the dog,” but because we finally saw what was already there. And that is always the beginning of change. And the end of the lie.
And you know what was perhaps the most “interesting” part of this whole story, the woman found her husband with her close friend in their marital bed one morning when she unexpectedly returned home from a trip a day earlier to surprise him for his birthday. And she truly surprised him.
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by Sasha Riess | 26.07.26. | Emotions
We often hear the sentence: “I am free to do what I want.” We believe that freedom lies in doing what we want and in listening to that specific voice within us as a path to fulfillment. But let us pause for a moment and ask ourselves: whose voice is it?
The Voice of the Self or the Echo of What Was Learned?
When we say that we are “listening to ourselves,” are we truly hearing our authentic frequency, or are we listening to the residue of everything we have learned, endured, and carried with us through life?
Very often, what we call “our will” is actually a set of programmed reactions shaped by trauma, upbringing, social norms, and fears that were instilled in us from early childhood.
When two people act based on that inner voice, we often describe it as complete freedom, a space where we can express our thoughts and emotions. But a person must be very careful when presenting that “truth” and those “opinions” as absolute values to others.
The Trap of “My Truth”
The problem arises when we build our entire life on doing what we think we should do, without first questioning where those thoughts come from.
If your thoughts are a product of your fears or imposed patterns, then you are not free. You are simply a reflection of your past.
True freedom begins when we stop blindly following learned thoughts and start questioning their origin.
The real challenge and the beginning of true freedom do not come when we act on what we think, but when we pause and begin to question the source of those thoughts.
Do I want this, or do I want it because I am afraid?
Is this my voice, or the voice of my parents, society, or fear?
Finding true freedom by quieting the echo of what was learned.
Only when we quiet the echo of what was learned can we hear that thin, subtle line of truth that is truly our own. That process is difficult, but it is the only path toward becoming a person who truly governs themselves.
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