Many people find poetry helps express feelings they are unable to verbalize. This article provides help in choosing the right poem or set of poems for a memorial or funeral service
A Simple Formula For Overcoming Fear and Worry
Is fear and worry holding you back from reaching your goals and dreams? Discover a simple formula to overcome your fears and begin moving towards your dreams.
Bereavement Poetry: Meaningful Words for Memorial Services
Finding the right words to say when someone has passed away can be difficult.
Celebrate Life: Using Online Memorials and Other Funeral Services to Remember
Celebrating the life of a loved one can be done in different ways.
Grief & Loss
Have you ever lost someone close to you to death? We go through a grief process that was best described by Elizabeth Kublar-Ross in On Death and Dying. In it she talks about the five stages that people go through—denial and isolation; anger; bargaining; depression and finally acceptance. The dying, as well as those who love them, go through these stages although rarely at the same time and these stages are not predictable.
You may think you are in the anger phase, then j…
Healthy Grief, Unhealthy Grief
We all know that it is in ones highest good to grieve the loss of a relationship. Healthy grief releases feelings rather than allowing them to get stuck in the body. Healthy grief allows the griever to heal the loss and move on with life.
How to Scatter Cremated Remains (Ashes)
Before heading out to a beautiful location to scatter your loved ones remains, you will want to read this article. While this can be a beautiful, ceremonial and a very healing way of returning a loved one to nature, it can also be a disaster. By following a few guidelines and knowing what your options are, your experience will be much more positive.
Katrina – What Its Like To Be An Evacuee
I have run from only two storms in my whole life. Once the year before Katrina, my wife and me retuned the next morning from the first storm that turned away from New Orleans like most of the storms before it.. Katrina wasnt so merciful. In fact it seems we may never return now, but by no choice of our own.
Life Trumps Death
We cant do a lot about death. We can very much impact life – our own and others.
Online Memorials: Sharing Family History and Life Stories Online
When we die, we want to leave a life story that can speak to others both now and in generations to come. This article describes how posting a life story on an online memorial service site can help celebrate a life and encourage others.
Releasing Relationship Pain
If you are still hurting from a previous relationship then this article will help you to release that pain and move on.