Words for the Journey

Much is made in bereavement circles about the different ways in which men and women grieve and mourn their loved ones. Men are said to be stoic, strong, tough, aloof, silent, tearless, and on the whole incapable of expressing emotion.

From Expert to REAL Expert: Relearning Lessons in Grief 

I recently attended a local community meeting where I met a middle-aged woman who informed me—after learning that I was a grief and loss coach—that she had just finished cleaning her deceased mother’s closet and now felt emotionally draine

"There will be a time when the memory will bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye"

The dead are our nearest neighbors; they are all around us. John Donoghue Have you noticed how unrelated situations take on metaphoric images of life…

Myth #1:  Grief follows a logical, linear pattern

Ted Bowman speaks to Dr Gloria Horsley about conspicuous loss and shattered dreams, often times life does’t turn out the way you planned. Association of Death Education and Counseling

The Classifieds

Often times I have come across lists of things to say to those that grieve, there is no more than one thing on my list, that should be on all lists.  No words are needed to be said, hug them, in silence is the only way.  Those who are grieving just want to know you are there, that

I am a mother before I am anything else, I strive to be the role model I want my daughter to be as she grows.  From the pain to the happiness I always make sure that through me she will see that nothing in life can keep you down, that through it all no matter where

  Coming from my own personal experience through grief, it has been the one thing that has lifted me up through all my darkest moments in grief, on the heavy days I had to program my mind over and over again to directly seek the good times, the good thoughts, although in tremendous pain this

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Building a birdhouse might not seem like an obvious way to deal with grief but it’s exactly what trauma survivors will be doing this weekend.