Today’s guest post is from Elizabeth Meyer. Elizabeth is an expert in planning personalized funeral services, and hopes to make funeral planning a less taboo, more approachable subject. After planning a unique funeral for her own father in 2006, she joined Frank E. Campbell funeral home in New York City as Family Services Liaison, where […]
Today’s post is part of the “Death Perspectives” series; a series of guest posts written by those from different faith, or non-faith, persuasions, explaining how they’ve approached death, bereavement and grief. Today’s guest post is from Willem Dunham. This from Willem: I’m 55, owned and operated by a pit/lab mix and a batshit crazy rat […]
Many of us have the gift of moving through the grief process as we find a way — often after years and years of remaking — to put grief to a restless slumber. Anne Lamott writes, “You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news […]
1. Lead by Example. Like many new fathers, my first born has caused me to re-evaluate myself and my priorities, making me feel nervously unprepared to be the example that I now am. In many ways, I’ve emulated my father. Though I may not consciously know how to be a great father, there’s a real […]
When an individual dies, that death throws a web of relationships out of balance, causing the bereaved to *attempt* to find a new homeostasis. This disrupted “new normal” is best found together in community. When grief isn’t shared. When there is no community to share it. When it isn’t recognized by society, then grief becomes […]