This weekend is one of the hardest ones out of the year for me. Mostly because Saturday is the date of my Dad’s death. He actually died on Tuesday. Dates and days are funny things when they come up so many years later. Our bodies remember the days rather than the dates, at least that has been my experience. Choosing …
How to Handle Grief & Kids… When You Have to Put Down Their Dog
What happens with grief & kids collide? This May we had to put our dog down. It was an impossible choice and one that we felt needed to include the kids, most specifically the when of it all. We laid out the options, the reasons, and asked them what they thought. When we told our children, their first thought was …
Best Way to Get National Grief Awareness Day on the Map
Check out the video below to get started. It covers the background of National Grief Awareness Day and how you can help make it official. Below the video you will find a frank discussion of death, grief, and dying. This is your trigger warning. If you aren’t ready to dig into this topic (I totally get it), go ahead and …
Connecting to an audience through shared experiences like grief
Have you ever found yourself in a position where you knew you had something to say about a topic, but the topic was so raw and so vulnerable you couldn’t wrap your head around how to say it well? Troy Sandidge, of Nex Gen Dynamics, recently found himself in that type of situation. Troy Sandidge is the Vice President of …
goodgrief app – a resource for loss and grief
Sometime in 2017, I happened across a little startup called the goodgrief app. It came across my twitter feed and I immediately clicked through to see who else was talking about grief out in the open and in the light. After combing through their social media accounts and reviewing the website, I took the plunge and set up my own …