by Sarah Wheelan | Aug 14, 2018 | Family support, Grief and healing
Fifteen years ago, the lights went out across the entire eastern seaboard, in what is still known simply as “the blackout”. My brother Lewis died that night – sometime in the early morning hours of August 15, 2003. He was 21 years old. I still get choked up...
by Kate Kennington | Aug 7, 2018 | Family support
(This article was first published in Threads newsletter, Summer 2018) Making a phone call and asking about available services – that sounds easy, right? However when it is a family’s first contact with Threads of Life it may not feel so simple to make that call. It...
by Shirley Hickman | Aug 1, 2018 | Family support
We get up in the morning and we think to ourselves, what does today hold for me? Many times, we would say ‘the usual’. Most of us say that we don’t like or are uncomfortable with change. I often wonder, why do we have these negative thoughts around change? If you...
by Alex Tuff | Jul 24, 2018 | Family support, Grief and healing
August 2018 will be five years since my big brother Kris was killed in an industrial accident while at work. He was instructed to enter a tank that had not been properly cleaned, to remove a baffle; a device used to restrain the flow of a fluid, liquid or gas. The...
by Susan Haldane | Jul 17, 2018 | Family support, Grief and healing
We often hear the message that you won’t be able to be good for others if you’re not good to yourself. It can be a hard message to take to heart – after all, self-care seems selfish. Aren’t we taught to put others first? That works until it doesn’t. And for those...
by Susan Haldane | Jul 10, 2018 | Family support
Threads of Life volunteer Alex Tuff shared his story at a Workplace NL Health and Safety Symposium last fall. Every year, more families across Canada find their way to Threads of Life when they need support coping with a work-related fatality, serious injury or...
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