Monthly Archives: January 2019

I wasn’t there when Dominic left the road but I’ve imagined it in detail hundreds of times since that night nearly five years ago. I can’t help it. I wonder what he thought, what … Source: Feedback Loops and Grief … Continue reading →

I’m not sure who was the first to say it, but after my daughter, Dorothy, died there were many who assured me that I would move on.  They phrased it like a promise — a reassurance … Source: I Am … Continue reading →

Source: Stigmatized Loss – Compassionate Friends

We live in a society that is so terrified to talk about death. For something that is happening every day, all around us, people just don’t know how to communicate about this subject. Source: Stopping the Stigma: My Mom Died … Continue reading →

Jennifer Hodge was watching television with her daughter when an alert popped up on her phone saying “Your Entryway camera saw someone.” The photo taken by the camera showed a Source: Mom says security camera filmed ghost of her son … Continue reading →

(CNN) — One of the last remaining members of the Navajo Code Talkers, who used their difficult-to-learn language to form an indecipherable code that helped the Allies win World War Source: Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code … Continue reading →

I suspect I’m not alone in growing up with stories of a handsome prince coming to the rescue on his white charger. If you hear the tales often enough they burn an image in your mind of exactl… Source: When … Continue reading →

A palliative care nurse explains what to expect in the last days and hours. Source: The Choices We Make for Others at the End of Life by Sallie Tisdale — YES! Magazine

Griefwords Library By Dr. Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D. Source: Griefwords Library – Horan & McConaty

Loose canon: Compassion literally means to suffer alongside. The greatest gift we can give the bereaved, with the loneliness that accompanies loss, is to not run away Source: We cannot fix people’s grief, only sit with them, in their darkness … Continue reading →