Words for the Journey

Heavenly Butterflies Gorgeous lives go flying byInto deep blue azure skies Exquisite wings, so decorated

Holidays are often difficult for bereaved people and the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day can be particularly hard. The days are filled with reminders of the loss and with painful examples of things their loved one can no longer enjoy.

              Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.  Shakespeare

So in hard times is to find the good in you, around you everywhere because in hard times dealt to you one after another where it seems endless it is important to not let that suffocate you from the positive, love and shine in you, to seek the good no matter how hard, to find that silver lining no matter how hard is a must to your sanity to your soul, to your everything.  I have nev

I would love if you could post this for me.  This family I have been helping for a long now have lost their father and husband.  It’s a tribute to him I just wrote. 

When you are given the responsibility of love, to love onto others through the knowledge of what you been through it is to face it with all your strength, to use that with all you have in you no matter how hard it is to remember of the things that shattered your heart not so long ago.  If this is your heart, this is your love; this is the same of pain you have struggled than this

Heavenly Peace, a Christmas MemoryBy John Henkels, Strongsville OH 

Well the holidays are here…  Be it Christmas, Hanukah, New Year’s, Kwanza or any holiday that you may celebrate.  With the holidays comes perhaps some anticipation that it is going to be hard and indeed, sometimes the holidays may be hard.  Holidays are usually a time with family and often times; we are reminded that one of our loved one’s is not with us.  However, what I wo

Christmas after the loss of a loved one Bereavement counsellor, Del Marie McAlister looks at how people can still  celebrate Christmas after bereavement.

Oh, we talk about the best cold medications and if cherry cough syrup tastes better to kids than orange. We can recommend preschools and sneakers. But the hardest part of parenting is the least often discussed. The roughest aspect of being a parent is losing a child.

Upon the death of my precious daughter Nina on my birthday, May 11, 1995, I became eligible for the “club” that no parent wants to ever belong.  That “club” is The Compassionate Friends (TCF), a self-help group for bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents who have experienced the death of