How to Help A Grieving Friend (Part 2)

By Uma Girish | September 5, 2013
help a grieving friend

My conversation with Katherine Conway, founder of Helping Friends Grieve continues… 4. You study and work in the field of transitional justice. In traveling the world and working with communities around mourning, memory, memorialization and loss, what are some of the biggest lessons that have come your way? I learned the most important lesson of…

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Midwife to the Dying: Part 1

By umagirish | April 23, 2013
lessons from the dying

Judith Redwing Keyssar is so much more than her impressive credentials. She is someone who is comfortable with death and dying, and assists people through this significant transition. Director of the Palliative and End-of-Life Care at Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the San Francisco Bay Area, Keyssar’s book Last Acts of Kindness: Lessons for…

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