Posts Tagged ‘love’
What does a Dying Person think of?
What does a dying person think of? What if this is the first time they think about the presence of a Higher Power and their connection to it? Who helps them get there? Felicity Warner demystifies this in her book The Soul Midwives’ Handbook: The Holistic & Spiritual Care of the Dying. Anyone who is a…
Read MoreComforting Someone Who is Dying
Judith Redwing Keyssar is so much more than her impressive credentials. She is someone who is comfortable with death and dying, and is great at comforting someone who is dying. As Director of the Palliative and End-of-Life Care at Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the San Francisco Bay Area, she assists people through this…
Read MoreWhere do we come from?
Where do we come from? And where are we going? This book sounds to me like a love letter to humanity. A very timely one at that. Margaret is Gerry Garvin’s guardian angel, the loving entity who has been helping him unravel life for over 20 years. The book is designed to help us understand three…
Read More10 Questions We Ask about Death
What are the top 10 questions we ask about death? When someone you love dies, your world goes black. It happened to me when my mother died. My senses went numb. My brain buzzed with a single question: Why?? And soon a flood of questions poured in. What is death, I asked myself, really and…
Read MoreWhy Me?
Why me? Why my child? These are questions every parent who lost a child in the Connecticut school shootings is asking today. Why innocent kids? This follows on the heels of the first. When the mind is confronted with a tragedy of this magnitude, there are more questions than answers. Asking why me is completely normal.…
Read MoreWishes for someone Grieving
Wishes for the Grieving and Healing Heart opens with a heartwarming story of the water bug that turns into a dragonfly–a perfect metaphor for the transformation from physical form to spirit. It heralds a significant truth: When you lose someone you love, life will never be the same; you will never be the same. But…
Read MoreHow Connected Are We?
How connected are we? This book is about a dog named Kona that died. It’s about a singer-songwriter’s jaded, faded dreams. It’s about heartbreak and loss and grief. It’s about the power of a letter. It’s all this and so much more. It’s a slim book that’s heavy with emotion. But to me, the words…
Read MoreWaiting for A Loved One to Die
Waiting for a loved one to die is like walking on hot coals. When you know a loved one’s death is approaching, you experience anticipatory grief. In other words, death hasn’t occurred yet, but it is coming. Anticipatory grief can be easy or hard, depending on the kind of person you are. Some people like…
Read MoreWhat Grief Does to You
What grief does to you cannot be covered in a single post, but this is a start. Our individual experience of grief is as unique as our DNA or fingerprint. While our shared humanity does trigger certain standard responses to the loss of a loved one, not all of us experience every one of them,…
Read MoreWhat do the Dead know?
What do the dead know? Do they know some things we the living have no access to? Questions rattle inside most of us. Why do we struggle? What is the purpose of life? Isn’t there more to life than paying the bills? Why do babies die? What happens when we die? The world-famous medium, James…
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