by adminThreadsofLife | May 30, 2017 | How We Help
When is the best time for people to benefit from Threads of Life’s programs following a work-related death, serious injury or disease diagnosis? Threads of Life does not contact families directly. Instead we believe that families need to determine for themselves when...
by Glenn Johnson | May 23, 2017 | How We Help
On March 10th, 2008 we lost our son Jeffrey in a workplace accident. For the next couple of years I was existing in a very dark world. I felt lost and so full of guilt. One evening while watching the evening news something caught my attention. It was the news brief...
by Jan Falls | May 16, 2017 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
In her blog Heart Poems, counselling therapist Jan Falls shares poems that have touched her deeply. She writes “A gift is meant to be shared, given away to the larger world. These [poems] are gifts I have received that I want to pass on to you. Sometimes doors open...
by Susan Haldane | May 9, 2017 | Steps for Life, Volunteers
All year we’ve been saying that ‘one’ can make a difference: one volunteer, one walker, one fundraiser, one sponsor. Of course everyone knows that when we put a whole bunch of ‘ones’ together, that impact grows by huge steps. You could call those “Steps for Life”!...
by Scott McKay | May 2, 2017 | Health and Safety
Three today but that’s not meNo need to worry, it’s never meThey should do more, can’t they seeEven I know that and it’s never me If it’s going to stop it will be by weIt can’t just be them; this includes meBe the change we hope to seeEven I know that; I’m part of we...