My Mother’s Grief
At the age of 48, after 28 years of being a high school teacher, a mother and a wife, my mother was alone. She jumped into redecorating our house and a new personality showed itself — an appreciation for French Impressionist painters, a curiosity about Native American art, a love for a shot of fine […]
WHEN FAMILY TIES ARE BROKEN
Each person in a family may feel shattered when a loved one dies, but death can also shatter a family. People grieve very differently. Some may be highly emotional. Others may have physical complaints or be unable to sleep. Still others may “get busy and stay busy.” These individual differences can make it challenging for […]
Benefits of online course: Grief for Professionals
The upcoming Lunch and Learn Series provides excellent focused professional education that will challenge you, that is respectful of your time, and that creates an exciting cross-pollination of ideas from different environments and disciplines. Kim Mooney is the recipient of the first Community Educator Award from the international Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) […]
Ongoing Study of Grief
Why should we turn an eye to grief as a formal study? Grief is the most universal human experience, and we live with it every day in many forms. You’ll often hear that we’re a death-denying society. By extrapolation, we’re also a society that refuses to or doesn’t remember how to grieve. The two go […]
THE ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCATION AND COUNSELING (ADEC) COMMUNITY EDUCATOR AWARD
I was thrilled to be able to meet with other death educators, all using different modalities and innovative practices with different audiences. ADEC has been my professional home since 1994. I had been working with hospice for two years and felt a passion for working with dying people and the grief that goes with expected […]