Everyone suffers deep losses. But no one suffers our losses. Grief is a life-shattering, profound experience in all of our lives. Yet in its haze, we often don’t understand what […]
Walking With Our Grief (Online Workshop)
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 […]
Kim Mooney Speaking on KGNU 88.5 FM
Living with the Truth. How would you respond to the news that you are dying? There are many factors that figure into anyone’s reaction but high on the list are […]
Death, Dying and Grief – Practically and Mystically
Kim Mooney – Boulder County’s Thanatologist-in-Residence Dying to Be Whole. Most people will not have an NDE but we can all work toward having a more present death experience that […]
10 things NOT to say to someone who is grieving
People often say careless or ignorant things that they hope will help people in loss, but instead they make it harder for those who are grieving to feel cared for […]
Death Cafés bring surprising lightness to heavy topic
What is a Death Café? I’m honored to be quoted in the Considerable.com article, How to die the way you want, by Randi Hutter Epstein. What is a death café, you ask? Death […]
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 […]
THE RITUALS OF GRIEF
When we are in this most fully human place, our broken hearts call out to understand and find solace/sanctuary. We cannot understand what deep grief is doing to us as […]