#1 Decide to Show UP for 5 Minutes Grieving parents feel alone. Abandoned by friends who don’t know what to say or fear saying the wrong thing, they are excluded. Make the decision to show [...]
What are You Telling Yourself About your Grief? As a grieving parent of six months, six years, three years, ten years, what are you telling yourself about this pain? Are you judging yourself [...]
Death by Suicide claims more lives than war, murder and natural disasters combined according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The goal of this organization is to decrease the [...]
I am happy to say that two people were very offended by the simplicity, narrowness of Grief or Non-Judgment. The reason I feel happy is that 46% of you took the time to open this and 26% of you [...]
The Dali Lama says, “There will be peace on earth when there is peace in our hearts.” How can there be peace in our hearts when we are grieving? Grief hurts. We feel disconnected from the person [...]
Halloween, Day of the Dead, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas Kwanzaa and New Year’s are officially on many U.S. calendars. Did I miss any on yours? I imagine some of you have [...]
The only moment we have is Now. “The New Now” is where we are live without our dead person. Grandma will not be here this Thanksgiving to make her butter horn rolls. She is dead. Granddad will [...]
The call came in on Monday morning. “Georgena what do I say on my Christmas card to a friend who is dieing and his grieving family? I want them to know about our year and yet that feels [...]
Part 4 of 4 How ironic that my mother, Betty Jean Hawthorne Kuzma was born this day, November 1, 1922. Mother was born, raised and died in Nebraska. She was a scientist, an extraordinary nurse. [...]
Part 2 of 4 Halloween, All Hallow’s Eve is tonight. Children dress up going from house to house to receive sweet treats. Could it be that for this one night in the United States, we embrace [...]
