by Karen Lapierre Pitts | Jan 14, 2021 | How We Help
As we move into a new year, it’s important to make time to reflect, to breathe, and to focus on what is most important to you. The thing about a “beginning” of any type is that it usually also signifies the “ending” of something else. While I’m not especially sad to...
by Karen Lapierre Pitts | Nov 26, 2020 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, How We Help
Our first major online event The National Virtual Family Forum was a huge learning curve for all of us! Threads of Life staff learned how to coordinate a big online event, with sessions spread over weeks. Facilitators learned how to engage participants virtually....
by Karen Lapierre Pitts | Aug 20, 2020 | How We Help
Elisa Kilbourne, a Threads of Life member from London Ontario, tells a lovely story about her first trip to a Family Forum. “The moment I arrived in the parking lot I sat and cried,” she says, “trying to figure out if I could really handle this emotional situation,...
by Karen Lapierre Pitts | Jul 29, 2020 | How We Help, Self-care
We asked, you answered! Threads of Life’s Volunteer Family Guides (VFGs) provide peer support to others who are coping with the effects of workplace tragedy. Every guide goes through intensive training for their volunteer role. They learn how to draw on their own...
by Karen Lapierre Pitts | Jul 29, 2020 | How We Help, Self-care
Photo by Dan Dimmock on Unsplash Self-care is a bit of a buzz word these days. Unfortunately, lots of people are ready to dismiss it, at the very time we all need it most. If you’ve been affected by a work-related tragedy and are coping with illness, injury or grief;...
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