“Grieving is as natural as crying when you’re hurt, sleeping when you’re tired, eating when you’re hungry, or sneezing when your nose itches. It is nature’s way of healing a broken heart.” Doug Manning Grief is a “normal” and necessary reaction to a significant change or loss in our lives. Over the past few years,… Continue reading “Never Have I Ever”: A Thoughtful Exploration of Grief
November is Children’s Grief Awareness Month. Since 2003, Joel’s Place for Children, a Cleveland-based 501(c)(3) non-profit, provides grief support to school-aged children and their families who have experienced the death of someone special in their lives. Children and teens across the world are experiencing grief in ways that are more complicated and often more traumatic… Continue reading Children Grieve Too
Every person who loses a loved one is going to experience a unique form of grief. The pain and loss you experience depends completely on your relationship to the deceased, the circumstances surrounding their death, your stage in life, and countless other factors. This is also why your personal approach to grief often changes depending… Continue reading What You Should Know About the Unique Types of Grief
Above all, if you use social media while grieving you should be honest with yourself and ask: What do I hope to gain from this experience? Why am I writing this post and what do I expect once it’s published? Is this platform helping me along my grief journey or hindering me from moving forward? Taking time to reflect on these questions will help ensure you’re using social media in a healthy way.
I’ve spoken to many fathers during my time here at the Catholic Cemeteries Association. I’ve also spoken to countless children who have lost their fathers. While everyone I talk to is unique in their stage of life and grief, I have noticed one commonality– an intense, unwavering love. Whether their relationship was biological or not,… Continue reading Transformative Love
Faith, Hope, and Remembrance 