What would be?
It’s a compulsion to ask, “what if we had done things differently?” But I think it’s also a compulsion to ask, “what could have been?” I certainly have wondered that more than a few times over the last six years. What would our life look like? How different would it be? How would Levi fit…
Grief Guide
We have had a number of conversations lately about the importance of intentional grieving. When we lose someone we love, there are others who lost the same person. Each person has their own stories and histories with the deceased. It can be healing and important to have time to share these with one another. As…
Memories
Do you ever find yourself telling a story about your loved one and realizing it feels like a ‘fresh memory’? Like you haven’t thought of that story for a while? Or it was buried under other, more recent memories? I find myself surprised at times by the memories that pop up of my dad. Often…
Holiday Host Etiquette
Sarah Nannen, author of Grief Unveiled shared this on her Facebook and Instagram pages last year and it’s worth a reminder: Holiday host etiquette: If you’re inviting someone to your home and they’re grieving, be sure you’re inviting their grief to attend, too. It will be there, anyway. Don’t invite someone with the goal of…
Four Stockings
We hang four stockings on our fireplace. Come Christmas morning only three stockings are filled. We have talked much over the years about what to do with that empty stocking. But for now, it feels right to leave it empty. It hangs with the other stockings throughout the Christmas season. It hangs because all of…
Grief Uncovered
We are in the process of written interviews with some individuals in our life. We are asking a number of people the same three questions in order to showcase the broad spectrum of grief- what we learn from it, how our perceptions of it have changed, etc. We are excited to post the sixth in…
Grief Uncovered
We have begun the process of written interviews with some individuals in our life. We are asking a number of people the same three questions in order to showcase the broad spectrum of grief- what we learn from it, how our perceptions of it have changed, etc. We are excited to post the fifth in…
Grief Uncovered
We have begun the process of written interviews with some individuals in our life. We are asking a number of people the same three questions in order to showcase the broad spectrum of grief- what we learn from it, how our perceptions of it have changed, etc. We are excited to post the fourth in…
Grief Uncovered
We have begun the process of written interviews with some individuals in our life. We are asking a number of people the same three questions in order to showcase the broad spectrum of grief- what we learn from it, how our perceptions of it have changed, etc. We are excited to post the third in…
Grief Uncovered
We have begun the process of written interviews with some individuals in our life. We are asking a number of people the same three questions in order to showcase the broad spectrum of grief- what we learn from it, how our perceptions of it have changed, etc. We are excited to post the second in…
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