Dreams and signs of our children. Do they really exist? Are dreams and signs a technique our deceased children use to contact us to let us know they are fine and indeed do live on?
I …

Four years ago, I lost my beautiful 23-year-old daughter, Keren, on March 18, 2006. Therefore, I know firsthand how painful it is to lose a child. At first, I really didn’t think I would survive, …

The workplace is like your second family to many people. Let’s face it, some people spend more time at work than with their immediate families!! After my mother died I don’t think that I was …

By Harriet Hodgson –
When you are in the throes of grief, you think you will never be happy again. Your world is a narrow, dark tunnel. You do not see any light, yet glimmers exist, …

By Clara Hinton –
I only remember two times in my life that I saw my father cry:? the day he realized all of his hair was falling out at age 30, and the day my …

Gladys writes in: I just lost my twin sister three months ago to something we now know as Long QT syndrome. She was perfectly healthy and woke to check on her crying baby one morning …

By Fran Dorf -
Thirty years after her son’s death, my friend still smarts when she remembers all the people who pointed out how lucky she was to have two other children. Another friend, whose brother …

Julie Z. wrote My husband died?about 1.5 years ago, I continue to cry daily. He was everything to me. I am so tired of being so alone. I miss him so very much. …

By Stan Goldberg –??
When a sleep disorder forced me to retire at 57, and six months later I developed prostate cancer, I reacted to life as if the music had stopped. My misguided belief that …

By Patrick T. Malone –??
Jack Gordon, former president of the Hospice Foundation of America, once said: “In a very real sense in our society, the workplace has become a kind of extended family. Businesses have …

By Mary Bart —
Words can barely describe the depth of loss I felt when my father died.? I believe that I cried every day for at least a couple of years. My life felt …

Bonnie Carroll received the People Magazine “Heros Among Us” Award.? People magazine honors “ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”? After Bonnie Carol’s husband Brig. Gen. Tom Carroll died, Bonnie looked for support but couldn’t find any.? …

By Sharon Greenlee –
It’s been over six months since my husband died and people still ask the question: ? “How are you doing?” ?
If you’ve lost a loved one, you’re familiar with that phrase.? I …

By Karla Wheeler —
In every community there are mothers who need extra doses of TLC this Mother’s Day. I’m thinking of the mothers who are enduring that most painful of grieving experiences, the loss …

By Lisa Buell –
I got a truck full of manure delivered to me the first Mother’s Day after my daughter Madison died. I had been sleeping in, hoping the day would turn to night before …

By Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC –
Question: Two weeks ago, my mother died of metastatic cancer. We had a strained relationship our entire life together. Growing up she could be very cruel to me, and …