Give Sorrow Words

Rituals give meaning to the painful and precious opportunities we are given to express and move through grief after we’ve lost a loved one.  Many such opportunities may be missed because of our upset, confusion and sense of being adrift that so often accompany...

When Grief is Your Companion

At a widow and widowers support group that I helped facilitate one of the participants reflected on recent and personal encouners as a widow, and what it was like to experience the pain of other people’s reactions such as avoidance and withdrawal of social contact. ...

Quotations on Grief and Grieving

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, Love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – taken from a headstone in Ireland “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues....