by Elaine Voci | Jul 28, 2015 | Blog, End of Life Resources
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...
by Elaine Voci | Mar 11, 2015 | Blog, End of Life Resources
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. ...
by Elaine Voci | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog, End of Life Resources
“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....
by Elaine Voci | May 1, 2014 | Blog, End of Life Resources, Life Coaching, Life Transitions
Recently, during the bereavement group that I co-facilitate at a local hospice, clients talked about the emotional pain they are going through as they come to terms with the loss of their mate. For some, the death of their spouse had come suddenly, when they least...