#MondaysMoments
April 25 2016
Are you interested in applying spiritual decision making? In our work helping families care for their loved ones after death, a decision that must be made is choosing between burial and crema...
Monday, April 25, 2016
April 18 2016
So far this month we’ve been defining spiritual decision making. Now let’s discover how you make spiritual decisions. For this topic, I often refer to the book Decision Making and Spiri...
Monday, April 18, 2016
April 11 2016
Last week we started down the path of spiritual decision making and how it relates to the many daily choices we make. Let’s first clarify what we mean by spiritual. As a trained spiritu...
Monday, April 11, 2016
April 4 2016
This month in Monday’s Moments let’s talk about choices. We face many every day of our lives. How do we make our choices and decisions? One program I really enjoy conducting during retr...
Monday, April 4, 2016
March 28 2016
Unfortunately in our culture, we sometimes receive the message that to heal and be healthy after a loss, we should forget about our loved one and move on. A wise friend of mine once told me a...
Monday, March 28, 2016
March 21 2016
When you’ve lost a loved one, how do you find a new way of being? You’re being transformed. Just as your grief journey is as unique as your fingerprint, so too is how you find a new way...
Monday, March 21, 2016
March 14 2016
One of the retreats I help organize is titled “Hope through the Seasons” and its underlying message is that, just like nature, our lives go through seasons. Nature’s model can provide u...
Monday, March 14, 2016
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December 11 2023
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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