A few months ago I learned my sister-in-law recently became a widow. I made a book recommendation to her; Please Be Patient, I’m Grieving by Gary Roe. I listened to the audio version of this book read by the author. It is an excellent book for a person who is traveling through the grief process and for those on the support tea...

While watching a Spanish video on YouTube to improve my language skills, I heard reference to a quote by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. I looked it up and it touched me deeply.

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depth...

Have you noticed that GRIEF is not a 4-letter word? I’ll explain. It seems that for all the years humans have been living and dying on Earth, in many societies we are still not good at it.  We, for the most part, love the coming in  but are very uncomfortable and clumsy with the going out.

Often, grief is viewed as bad beh...

A friend posted this quote yesterday. I think it is excellent food for thought and certainly applies to those who are supporting a person on the grief journey.

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” Stephen R. Covey (1932-2012)

This is a reminder that many times, a friend...