by HeartLight Center | Sep 11, 2023 | Heart to Heart
Dear Fellow Griever, I want to share with you about my beloved, and how it was that she gave me an important gift – permission to make tough end of life decisions; to ultimately let her go. She endured a clinical trial with over two years of chemo and radiation, and...
by HeartLight Center | Aug 7, 2023 | Heart to Heart
Hello fellow grievers, My name is John and I have been a volunteer at HeartLight for about nine months. Today I want to talk about getting through the first year after the death of a loved one, in particular at times of holidays and anniversaries. My wife Marilyn died...
by HeartLight Center | Jun 19, 2023 | Heart to Heart
Dear Fellow Grief Professional, and Grieving Heart: Since I was a young girl, I wanted to be a mortician. My paternal grandmother died when I was seven. She had been sick for as long as I could remember and even as a child, I was not surprised she passed away. The...
by HeartLight Center | Jun 1, 2023 | Heart to Heart
Dear Grieving Heart, Next to my husband Dan, my dad was my second-best friend. When told that dad had six months to a year to live, the news tore my soul. I silently suffered anticipatory grief. Even though I was trained as an end-of-life doula a year prior, I was...
by HeartLight Center | May 8, 2023 | Heart to Heart
Dear Fellow Human, May is “Mental Health Awareness Month” and I am grateful to take a moment to talk about mental health. (Especially because how we tend to ourselves and each other deeply matters to our overall wellbeing!) In sharing from personal...
by HeartLight Center | Mar 22, 2023 | Heart to Heart
Dear Fellow Griever, I found some voice through haiku as I was processing some of the depths of my grief. The cadence of 5-7-5 worked for me. I wanted to share in case haiku may be useful to you, too. Lovingly, Mary April 4, 2022. The day after Jim died....
