#1 Decide to Show UP for 5 Minutes Grieving parents feel alone. Abandoned by friends who don’t know what to say or fear saying the wrong thing, they are excluded. Make the decision to show up by remembering when you felt most alone. What was happening in your...
What are You Telling Yourself About your Grief? As a grieving parent of six months, six years, three years, ten years, what are you telling yourself about this pain? Are you judging yourself because you aren’t “Farther along?” Has judging your...
Death by Suicide claims more lives than war, murder and natural disasters combined according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The goal of this organization is to decrease the suicide rate 20% by the year 2025. World Suicide Prevention Day is...
I am happy to say that two people were very offended by the simplicity, narrowness of Grief or Non-Judgment. The reason I feel happy is that 46% of you took the time to open this and 26% of you responded on Facebook. We are ENGAGING as a community. Thirty-three...
The Dali Lama says, “There will be peace on earth when there is peace in our hearts.” How can there be peace in our hearts when we are grieving? Grief hurts. We feel disconnected from the person who died, the one who will not be traveling back to sit at our table...
Halloween, Day of the Dead, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas Kwanzaa and New Year’s are officially on many U.S. calendars. Did I miss any on yours? I imagine some of you have Black Friday in bold as well, even though I hear several stores will not open...
