The Journey with Grief and Loss

The more I work with grief, the more frequently it appears in my daily landscape. It comes in the form of the sudden death of a friend’s pet, or while trying to find someone I used to know who died almost 5 years ago and I didn’t know. It surprises Read more

What is “Moving On”?

“Moving On”….. what does it mean when someone says this? Firstly, The difficulty with ‘moving on’ is that for some people, sometimes we don’t want to heal because the pain is the last link to what we’ve lost. We cling to pain, not because we want the hurt, but because Read more

What we run from pursues us…

David Kessler is one of the most kind, caring and wise experts in the field of Grief and Loss. Throughout our Grief Educator training, one of the statements he repeated often was… “What we run from pursues us. What we face transforms us.” The meaning is clear. When we suppress Read more