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5 Reasons to be a Corporate Sponsor for a Nonprofit
By Stacey Grant Excerpts from The 2013 Cone Communications Social Impact Study 1. UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN’S EXPECTATIONS Americans’ appetite for corporate involvement in social and environmental...
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In Grief, Try Personal Rituals: The Psychology of Rituals in Overcoming Loss,...
Re-Posted from The Atlantic By EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH “Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it,” writes Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking. “We might expect if the...
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Death in The Digital Age: How Does Social Media Affect Children’s Grief?
Re-posted from The Journal i.e. . “When you’re online, you don’t get to choose who to edit out.” Everyone will be faced with bereavement at some stage in their life, but the digital age has changed how...
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper Copes With Grief: The Famous Journalist has Made a...
Family portrait: The Coopers photographed in their Long Island home in 1972. Anderson Cooper is seated by his mom, heiress Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, while brother Carter is on their father Wyatt...
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United By Grief, This Couple Felt Whole Again After Blending Their Families
Re-Posted from The Huffington Post By Brittany Wong Deb and Chris Gottschalk are a bit different than your average blended family. The couple, who has seven kids between them, met at a support group...
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Dad with Cancer Writes Daughter 826 Notes to Last After He’s Gone
Re-Posted from Todaynews.com By Eun Kyung Kim Garth Callaghan started slipping notes into his daughter Emma’s lunchbox when she was in kindergarten. She could barely read at the time, so he kept the...
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When Words Fail, Grieving Children can Find an Outlet in Music
Arvis Jones describes a music therapy technique during a conference for teachers, social workers and counselors. “You have to feel the joy inside yourself to be able to reach kids,” she says. To help...
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A Child’s Eye View of Death: The Power of Picture Books to Explain
Death and bereavement are difficult facts for parents to teach small children, made harder still if they are grieving themselves. But many authors have found elegant ways to start the process....
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The Emotion Which Lasts 240 Times Longer Than Others: Which emotion takes an...
Re-Posted from PsyBlog by Dr. Jeremy Dean Sadness is the longest lasting of the emotions, finds one of the first ever studies to look at why some emotions last much longer than others. When compared...
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9 Things I Learned In The Year After My Mother Passed
Re-Posted from Elite Daily. by Alyssa Samson Scars: They are a testament to injury, proof of survival and, at times, as indiscernible as a line etched delicately along the crevice of an eye. Although...
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10 Things Your Mom Never Told You
Re-Posted from The Huffington Post by NATASHA CRAIG Pregnant. There it was, clear as day, two blue lines staring back at me from the small pregnancy test I had just purchased. I double checked… One...
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The Power of Friendship Over Grief
Lee Bloom and Melanie Woodruff take friendship to a new level. Re-Posted from Oprah Magazine. Bob Woodruff and David Bloom, two well-known TV journalists, and their wives, Lee and Melanie, had that...
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Family Lives On Teams up with Penn Wissahickon Hospice’s David Bradley...
When Sarah Abramovitz, Coordinator at the David Bradley Children’s Bereavement Program at Penn Homecare and Hospice ran into Chris Cavalieri, Executive Director of Family Lives On Foundation at the...
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‘If the cancer takes me, can you take my son?’: Hospital nurse answers mom’s...
Wesley and his mom, Tricia Somers, share a happy moment on the beach. Re-Posted from Today.Com by A. Pawlowski When doctors told Tricia Somers that her cancer had spread, she turned to her nurse with...
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Grieving and Giving Thanks: How to Enjoy Thanksgiving Without a Loved One
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Re-Posted from The Huffington Post By Dr. Carmen Harra If I...
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Holiday Grieving: How to Best Support the Mourning This Time of Year
Re-Posted from Huffington Post Blog by Dr. Cara Barker The table is set. One chair is empty. Meanwhile, the rest of the world goes merrily on its way, as if nothing whatsoever has happened....
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Grief doesn’t magically end at a certain point after a loved one’s death....
Re-Posted from Mayo-Clinic In-Depth By Mayo Clinic Staff When a loved one dies, you might be faced with grief over your loss again and again — sometimes even years later. Feelings of grief might return...
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Holiday Traditions — Let It Snow!
Re-Posted from The Huffington Post Blog By Ronda Lee My dad and grandparents are no longer with us. Now, more than ever, I try to keep holiday traditions going. My granny would bake and you could smell...
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Bella Thorne Explains Sharing Her Father’s Death (“I couldn’t cry”) in Her...
By Yahoo Celebrity Staff Don’t be fooled by her willowy frame: Bella Thorne is a beast. With successful careers in film, television, and music — not to mention nearly 6 million followers on Twitter, 4...
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17 Things I Miss About My Mom on the Anniversary of Her Death
Re-Posted from Huffington Post Blog. By: Jodi Meltzer My mom died one year ago today. I somehow survived one full lap around the sun without my guiding light. Grief is an emotional vampire that, at...
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