There are numerous ways to connect up with loved ones on the other side.  While some people experience the feeling of a presence around them, others can hear thoughts in their heads.  Most of us …

Whether you’re widowed or not, love is a tricky business. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never been married, been messily married, or have gotten involuntarily unmarried (I think that’s a better term than “widowed,” don’t …

There are numerous ways to connect up with loved ones on the other side.  While some people experience the feeling of a presence around them, others can hear thoughts in their heads.  Most of us …

I recall during high school when I was applying to colleges. Firmly affixed in the neurons of my automatic brain was Groucho Marx’s famous line: “I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY …

A person who is gone can live on in memory as an active agent in one’s life, not just as someone you love and miss, not just as a nostalgic sadness. – Elizabeth Harper Neeld, …

Mother’s Day is on its way. You can’t miss it. There are advertisements on TV.  Stores have big ads placed everywhere. The Mother’s Day sales are here. Reminders are everywhere.
It can be one of the most …

Today, I drove past my parents’ old house.  I was in my hometown visiting my best friend from high school and she needed to make a quick stop at her sister’s house.  Her sister happens …

At a recent dinner party, one of my newly-widowed friends complained that another guest wasn’t being nice to her. ”He isn’t talking to me. He isn’t asking how I feel now that I lost my husband,” she …

When my brother Rod killed himself the grief itself made me feel like I was going crazy. One minute I was okay and calm, the next I was hysterical. If we are in the depths …

How can we help our children deal with deaths of loved ones? Here are some ways.

Prepare the children for what will come. The more open you can be about what is ahead, the less uncomfortable …

The end of summer is here, and for some of us, that means our child is leaving for college.  Yes, I know it brings up many feelings.  One minute you’re laughing with them at a Blue …

By Lauren Littauer Briggs –?
By the time I was eight, my first brother had died and my second was diagnosed with the same fatal condition.? My great-grandmother had died, but I wasn’t allowed at the …

By Sharon Greenlee –
When you see or hear Memorial Day, what are the first visuals and words that pop into?your mind?? I see the cemetery, the funeral, my mother’s grave. I hear my grandmother’s?mournful crying, …

I GOTTA BELIEVE IN SOMETHING

By Debra Reagan –
There came a point in my grief over the death of my son Clint when I became so tired of being tired. I began to search for something that would offer a …

By Clara Hinton –
Grief is such a difficult journey, but it becomes especially difficult around the holiday season.? Everywhere you look, there are reminders of family times, laughter and cheer, and times spent sitting around …