by HeartLight Center | Dec 16, 2025 | Heart to Heart
How many “first times” must I experience? Will the “triggers” ever become just another song or just another photo or just another place? Just days after you died came the “first time” to fold clothes as they came out of the dryer,...
by HeartLight Center | Oct 13, 2025 | Heart to Heart
Death is a scary word to many whom have never experienced it before and until it occurs in your family or even community we tend to disconnect from the idea. I found myself in shambles when death impacted my family, unable to pick up the pieces of my mind as I was in...
by HeartLight Center | Sep 30, 2025 | Heart to Heart
My husband suddenly passed away a week after our 49th wedding anniversary. How I’m coping with what would have been our 50th anniversary and the first year of his passing: I did my own ritual starting with wearing his crucifix, taking deep breaths, reading this...
by Megan Hogan | Aug 25, 2025 | Heart to Heart
The Mitzvah of Laughter and Social Time: How a Comedy Show Helped Me Grieve By Terry Anne Sachko *Note: On July 12, 2025, HeartLight Center and Daniels Family Funerals-Carlisle Chapel partnered to offer a HeartLight Summer Social event for New Mexico participants at...
by HeartLight Center | Aug 20, 2025 | Heart to Heart
Ever Forward Four years. Nearly four years. The calendar pages fly by in a blur. Am I awake? Asleep? Another “benchmark” checked. Another mile on the road to “moving on.” Four rotations around the sun, dimmer now without you here to see it. Forty-six months....
by HeartLight Center | Jun 13, 2025 | Heart to Heart
“You never know what’s out there,” said my dad as he pointed at the dark night sky. Shooting stars, wonder, and hope filled both the sky and our hearts. Since I was a little girl, this was a common occurrence while we went camping. My dad and I, in...
