Today’s guest post is written by Teryn O’Brien: After a year of grief, I’ve learned a lot. I’ve also made some mistakes along the way. Today, I jotted down 15 things I wish I’d known about grief when I started my own process. I pass this onto anyone on the journey. 1. You will feel like […]
Today’s guest post is written by Lynsie Lee: They say you can’t help someone if they don’t want it for themselves. You can shove resources into their face, offer time, money, every ounce of yourself. But if they don’t want help, there is nothing you can do. Sadly, this is the case with my mother […]
Today’s guest post comes from the innovative Jeff Staab. Jeff was a funeral director for 20 years; and eventually translated that experience to his entrepreneurial enterprise “Cremation Solutions”. ***** What is Grief? Grief is defined as a state of extreme sorrow, especially caused due to the loss of a loved one. Grief is also accompanied […]
We in the Western world consider the concept of being a little bit dead along the same lines as being a little bit pregnant: it’s simply not possible. Many cultures would politely disagree. For some, not only are there different degrees of dead, but they also like to keep the bodies around until they concur […]
On Tuesday morning all I knew was that I was setting up an O’Connor table at the Heartland Hospice event that we were co-hosting. I got the table cloth & brochures all set out, greeted the attendees, and sat down in the back intending to “work” on my computer when the speaker, Barbara Karnes, a hospice […]