Grief and Loss Support

Featured Grief and Loss Support

Five Stages of Preparing for Death - Preparing for a death can be terrifying if you have no idea what to expect, both physically and emotionally.

Coping with Tragedy, Loss, and Grief -   By Dan Johnston, PH.D We live life as whole persons, but we experience and process it at the Four Levels of Mind, Emotion, Body, and Spirit. * At the level of the mind we try to understand the events of our lives. We attempt to make sense of things.

A Poem of Comfort -   Someone sent me this poem when my Mom died and somehow it touched my heart. I have sent it to others on paper that has a cloud and sky background. ~Anne When somebody dies, a cloud turns into an angel, and flies up to tell God to put another flower on a pillow. A bird ...

Alzheimer's: A Mom's Love - By Caroline Shaw My mom at 82 passed away this past Christmas, but... As I think of my mom prior to her illness, (She had not been herself since '85. Strokes and dementia had taken away much of her personality) I think of someone whose total FOCUS was her kids and my mom was a "working mom." Shewas ...

Mother's Roses - By Beverly Orris My Mother was a gardener and had a 20 by 20 foot rose bed outside her bedroom door. It was always smelling heavenly when they were in bloom and the bedroom and hall smelled of roses. My Grandmother Susie and Great Grandmother Belle had all grown roses, both in Ireland and America. ...

Freedom of Grief for My Mother - On December 27, 1966, it was my 18th birthday; my mother had been ill but I did not realize how ill she was; she was a single mother who raised 3 children on her own; she had remarried a man who was totally blind and they had a son when my mother was in her 40's!  We lived a very simple life; mother ...