by HeartLight Center | Dec 12, 2022 | HeartLight Center Blog
Self-Compassion and Grief In my early 20’s, my grandmother died of lung cancer. She was 58 and we were a young family that had not experienced any deaths. My grandmother, who was truly our matriarch, had opted for hospice and the nurse who was with us that day – she...
by HeartLight Center | Oct 25, 2022 | HeartLight Center Blog
Question: When offering groups, is it better to have groups based on “type of loss (spouse, parent, sibling etc)” or general groups that include people who have experienced different losses? Answer: HeartLight has a variety of support groups, based on the relationship...
by HeartLight Center | Oct 24, 2022 | HeartLight Center Blog
On Friday, October 21, 2022 HeartLight Co-Founder, Jennifer McBride was recognized as a Corn Mother: Inspiring Woman of the Southwest at the Colorado History Museum. What is a Corn Mother: From Taos, New Mexico to the Hopi mesas of Arizona, the oral traditions of...
by HeartLight Center | Jul 10, 2022 | HeartLight Center Blog
How we process change, transition, cope and grief is unique to each person. No two people respond to loss in the same way and there is not a time table for healing. Relationships in the workplace are unique, to some the relationship to the person who has died was a...
by HeartLight Center | May 31, 2022 | HeartLight Center Blog
There has been a lot of overwhelming activity in our communities involving violence, trauma, and intense collective grief. Collective grief is when an entire community – society, nation, town, neighborhood – experiences extreme loss or change, after the impact of an...
by HeartLight Center | May 2, 2022 | HeartLight Center Blog
Grief is something that everyone experiences at some point in time, and yet each loss and grief experience is as unique as our fingerprints. Everyone grieves at their own pace and in their own way – that doesn’t mean that anything is “wrong” with them, or with you. We...
