Magic: the power to apparently influence the course of events by using mysterious powers. Did you believe in magic when you were little? Did you ever stop? When we were […]
Ordinary Magic: Rituals for Grief and Gratitude
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 […]
Walking with Grief
It is impossible to live with loss without walking with grief. Some suffering is unavoidable and necessary to survive being broken open. But when we try to ignore or minimize […]
UNDERSTAND HOSPICE NOW
Do you really understand hospice… and what it means? On paper, we say “it’s a way of caring for dying people and their families that addresses physical, emotional and spiritual […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rising From the Ashes
Today, in our country we have several obstacles to natural grieving. First, we have distanced ourselves from it enough that we don’t recognize it. Because we can’t name it easily, […]
Beyond Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
In 1969, psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross published her seminal book On Death and Dying. She brought into popular consciousness the model of the Five Stages of Grief, gleaned from conversations she […]
Why Study Grief?
Why don’t we understand grief? Why isn’t it easy to just admit we’re grieving and help each other? Today we often don’t recognize it for what it is – even […]
After the Holidays
How do you cope after the holidays? When the din and press of the holidays have died down, sometimes it’s wonderful to just collapse on the couch and have the […]