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October 12 2015
The 4-3-2-1 on Hope, Healing and Wholeness begins with four practices. It is my experience that if you spend time with each of these practices on a regular basis you will find more hope, hea...
Monday, October 12, 2015
October 5 2015
As I've companioned people in transitions and grief, I've noticed what helps with healing journeys. I've taken that information and created my 4-3-2-1 on Hope, Healing and Wholeness. Ov...
Monday, October 5, 2015
September 28 2015
The staff at Koch Funeral Home wants to help you have opportunities to share your stories. We are a part of a new effort, Learning to Live: What’s Your Story?, whose mission is to create ed...
Monday, September 28, 2015
September 21 2015
We also tell our stories to remember. In his book, Lose, Love, Live: The Spiritual Gifts of Loss and Change, Dan Moseley talks about the importance of remembering, “To remember, to ‘re-memb...
Monday, September 21, 2015
September 14 2015
Why do we tell our stories? Author and founder of Life-Legacies, Rachel Freed said:
We tell our stories to transform ourselves; to learn about our history and tell our experiences...
Monday, September 14, 2015
September 7 2015
This month I want to talk about the importance and healing power of storytelling. Each of the pieces of the Helping Grieving Hearts Heal program is really about storytelling:
Have the ...
Monday, September 7, 2015
August 31 2015
According to Thomas Lynch, a funeral director and author, “A good funeral is one that gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.”
Monday, August 31, 2015
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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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