Living through Loss
As my father approached the end-of-life at the long term care home where he had spent the last few months of his life, I received a telephone call in the early hours of the morning from the head [...]
Anger: Cooking our Potatoes
Potatoes Photo by graibeard We cannot eat raw potatoes, but we don’t throw them away just because they are raw. The following comes from one of my favourite teachers of mindfulness, the Buddhist [...]
Grief and bereavement in the 2SLGBTQ+ community: exploring challenges and resilience
“I learned that different meant many things: freedom, oppression, celebration, sadness, responsibility, hiding, protesting, sharing, but most of all being true to one’s self no matter the price.” [...]
Grieving the death of a parent
Shared as part of a memorial service at Niagara-On-The-Lake, June 17, 2023 Today we gather as a community of mourners, each of us drawn here by a common thread as we seek to remember and honor [...]
Growing through Grief
Grief is a normal, natural response to loss but we often don’t want to know about it. The reality is that we will all experience major and minor losses in our lifetime. Not acknowledging [...]
