by HeartLight Center | Dec 11, 2023 | Heart to Heart, HeartLight Center Blog
How can grieving people still find peace and joy during the holidays? Something that can feel meaningful, connected and peaceful to integrate into the holidays is a sense of ritual – be it the lighting of a candle, a meditative walk, saying a prayer, going to a...
by HeartLight Center | Oct 17, 2023 | Heart to Heart
Dear Fellow Griever, Coping is a verb meaning “to deal with or attempt to overcome problems and difficulties,” and is often used with “learning to cope.” This is a word that I have become very familiar with over the last year, and is an action that I have become used...
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...
