#MondaysMoments
December 24, 2018
For those of you celebrating, Merry Christmas Eve! For those of you grieving a loved one, we hope you find some Meaningful Moments and make new Memories today. To help you find healing, we’ll conti...
Monday, December 24, 2018
December 17 2018
Moving to the E of the BERP Tips for healing through the holidays we have:
Expect hope, love, light and life to appear, if only briefly, AND different experiences for yourself and others
Setti...
Monday, December 17, 2018
December 10 2018
As we continue with our theme of Meaningful Memories and Moments, we’ll begin with the B of the BERP tips to remember through the holidays:
Balance grieving and participating with life AND havin...
Monday, December 10, 2018
December 3 2018
Our theme this month is Meaningful Memories and Moments! When you’ve lost a loved one, the holiday season can be challenging. You think about the Meaningful Memories and Moments you had with your l...
Monday, December 3, 2018
November 26 2018
Tomorrow is National Day of Giving. #GivingTuesday is a global day dedicated to giving back. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, charities, families, businesses, community centers and students aroun...
Monday, November 26, 2018
November 19 2018
A counselor ed class of Penn State graduate students recently spent a couple of hours asking one another meaningful questions such as: What is something very few people know about you? Did your her...
Monday, November 19, 2018
November 12 2018
From All Hallows’ Eve, Halloween, All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day, and Día de los Muertos, through Veterans Day, World Kindness Day, Thanksgiving, National Day of Listening and National Day of Givi...
Monday, November 12, 2018
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I wasn’t always comfortable with the concept of, “Dare! Silence.” I grew up in a house with five kids and two parents, so silence was not something that happened often. When I began to practice a s...
December 4 2023
This month’s theme is “Dare! Silence.” Silence is very important throughout our lives, especially on our grief journeys. Silence can be intimidating, and we often try to fill it when we encounter i...
November 27 2023
To close this month, please read Anne Hillman’s poem, “We Look With Uncertainty” as you notice “something new is being born in” you while making new treasured memories.
We look with uncertainty
be...
November 20 2023
My favorite holidays is Thanksgiving. In terms of the meanings behind other holidays, I’m all in. But I can do without their hype and commercialization. So as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, ...
November 13 2023
As I was writing this month’s posts about our theme of “Memories Become Treasures,” the song “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac started to play. When our youngest child went off to college, this song mad...
November 6 2023
This month’s theme is “Memories Become Treasures.” In a recent grief education and support group I was leading we talked about looking at old photographs of deceased loved ones and how those pictur...
October 30 2023
To close out this month, read these words of poet John O'Donohue:
The dead are not distant or absent. They are alongside us. When we lose someone to death, we lose their physical image and presenc...
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