Sympathy Card Messages - Writing Tips

A sympathy card may seem like a small gesture for someone experiencing a tragic loss but to the person receiving them it can mean the world. Essentially, at this point the person grieving really would like sympathy card messages that are from the heart. If you can demonstrate a sincere empathy with your condolence messages you will seem like a person who genuinely understands.

Feeling When There's No Feeling Left

When things are chaotic we run with the bulls at Pamplona or we scurry for the privacy of shelter. Both these leave us scared of our true feelings. One embraces activity as a cover for denial. The other embraces solitude - even from the self... Feeling when there's no feeling left is, however, a pliable response to this astonishing vertigo.

“Haunting”

It’s been a while since I posted on this series, but this post is a continuation of my generated list of 30 words that could be used to describe grief.  Obviously this list relates to my experience with grief, so I am interested to see if anyone else can relate with this word.  I plan on continuing [...]

How Do I Find Peace Following the Death of a Child Part 2

We looked at the difference between a codependent and a co-empowered relationship and began looking at how this can relate to our grieving process. Now I would like to continue with that theme. If we are able to come to a place of seeing the lost child not as a codependent child, but as a co-empowered spirit, as a being who had their own life to live, then we can begin the process of understanding that whilst we had a duty of care for the child, we were actually nurturing a spiritual being who had their own journey to follow and complete.