While you and I prepare for the holiday season just a few days away, many of our friends and loved ones live in dread of the special days ahead when families gather and they will be reminded of their grief and their loss.  In their homes there will be an empty chair at the dinner […]

The culture we mourners live in is not grief-friendly. Well meaning friends and family tell us they were hoping that we would be “doing better by now.” Bottom line and productivity-minded bosses give us three days bereavement leave from work when someone in our immediate family dies. Mourning employees are often expected to return to […]

When death strikes, our world changes.  Suddenly we realize that the assumptions and beliefs we live by every day are not necessarily the way life really is.  Bad things can and do happen, not just to other people, but they can also happen to us and to the people we hold most dear. When loved […]