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When a drunk driver killed Paula D’Arcy’s husband and two-year-old daughter, her grief journey drew her to the ocean. In the Koch Funeral Home sponsored documentary, Voices of Grief: Honoring the S...
Nature has long been a source of healing, from its raw materials to its soothing images and sounds to its infinite lessons. In the Christian tradition, John Scotus Erigena, an Irish philosopher and...
Continuing with our Healing? Engage with Nature! theme, we would like your input on the possibility of holding a retreat in nature entitled "Healing with Love.” When you’ve lost a loved o...
Our theme for April is Healing? Engage with Nature. Losses come in all shapes and sizes as does the healing that follows from them. One result of a loss is often a future you hadn’t expected. A few...
In addition to making things matter with choices shortly after death, Alan Wolfelt, an author, educator and grief counselor, says that one of the needs of mourners is to search for meaning and “mak...
Today, we’ll continue to look at how families make it matter by adding exclamation points to the ways they care for their loved ones at death. This can be done in many ways. They can have a ceremon...
Continuing with our Make It Matter theme, when we lose a loved one, the loss often invites us to consider how to make life matter in new ways. These considerations start with how we choose to care ...
Our theme for March is Make It Matter. My husband and I attended the visitation for a family friend a few years ago. As we were greeting the family in the receiving line, I was struck by my interac...
Sharing Your Heart with others takes courage. As a parent, one of the many things our children taught me was observation is the first step in participation. Simply walking through the door of a sup...
Sharing Your Heart can feel scary or threatening – you are allowing yourself to be very vulnerable. That is exactly why we work hard to make our support gatherings safe places. We do this by follow...
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