Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.  Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.   ~ Margaret Cousins Upon ...

When deciding whether your child should attend a funeral or  memorial service , age is not the most important consideration. Your child is p...

In order to get from what was to what will be, you have to go through what is.  ~ Unknown A reader writes:   My husband has advanced-stage l...

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.  ~ Eckhart Tolle  A reader writes:   My beautiful lilac-point Siamese passed away...

Best selections from Grief Healing's X feed this month: Most people expect to feel better after that first year of bereavement, as if th...

Consequences follow when we force people to use a universal roadmap for grieving, and then judge those who do not follow it as wrong or sick...

  . . . just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.   ~ Humphrey Carpenter Loss is a fact of life...

Sorrows which find no vent in tears may soon make other organs weep.  ~ Sir Henry Maudsley A reader writes:   My sister has been very sick a...

All we animal lovers ever want is to do the best for our animal. When it comes to dying, what is best can be more complex than euthanizing. ...

They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.   ~ A. A. Milne To all my clients, colleagues, readers and vis...