2019 - Sept - Gazette - Thankful, Thoughtful, Tuesdays
Thankful, Thoughtful Tuesdays
With my work, I get into all kinds of conversations about dying, death and grief. One was with a woman who described a beautiful living funeral she was a part of for ...
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2019 - Aug - CDT - Learning to Live - Change is Loss
Change is Loss
In my work with Koch Funeral Home, we choose monthly themes, and then I write blog posts corresponding with that theme. Last year when we chose the themes for 2019, I didn’t realize...
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2019 - July - Gazette - Three Important Lessons
Three Important Lessons
As I’ve worked around dying, death and grief, I’ve learned three important lessons: you’re not alone, community matters and storytelling heals. These messages consistently ...
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2019 - June - Gazette - Transition
Transitions
Transitions have been on my mind a lot lately. Transitions mean changes and all changes, even positive ones, involve loss. Much of my work is about companioning people through changes ...
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2019 - June - CDT - Helping Hands - Monday's Moments Complimentary Luncheons
Monday's Moment's Complimentary Luncheons
Assurance that I always have someone to talk to. Comforted. A great deal of support. A safe place to share. Peaceful. Wrapped in a security blanket. These...
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2019 - May - Gazette - Authenticity in Life and Death
Authenticity in Life and Death
When I was training with The International End of Life Doula Association we did a fair amount of role playing. Sometimes I was the end-of-life doula and sometimes th...
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2019 - May - The Daily News - Huntingdon
Death Cafés
Each spring I am surprised by the vivid colors that appear in the plants and trees. You would think that having experienced many Pennsylvania springs in my lifetime, I would be used to...
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2019 - April - Gazette - Stories of Loss
Stories of Loss
I sat in a circle of nearly twenty women. Our facilitator looked at one of the women and asked, “What are you most present to?” That woman began to share a story about herself whic...
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2019 - March - Gazette - Death Café
Death Café
In November 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote these words, “…but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” These two certainties will be spotlighted on April 15, 2019, wit...
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2019 - March - CDT - Helping Hands - Thankful Thoughtful Thursdays
Thankful Thoughtful Thursdays
In the book, The Moon in the Well: Wisdom Tales to Transform Your Life, Family, and Community, Erica Helm Meade shared a tale from Madagascar. In this story, God allo...
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