by Tom Wilson | Mar 23, 2019 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
By their nature and definition beginnings are the start of something new. Long ago there was the beginning of my hearing loss which has progressed to the point of limiting earlier pleasures of concerts and public events. For those impacted by a workplace tragedy there...
by Tom Wilson | May 22, 2018 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
Option B (by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant, Knopf 2017) grew out of Sheryl Sandberg’s experience with grief following the tragic death of her husband in 2015. (The end of her Option A). For we who have been thrust into grief following a workplace tragedy the details...
by Tom Wilson | Nov 18, 2015 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
Photo by Tom Buchanan, Tom Buchanan Photographics Briefly, a bystander’s lack of direct involvement in a tragedy event has them say things over the next weeks and months that we find irritating and frustrating: phrases and discouraging comments like “aren’t you back...
by Tom Wilson | Nov 11, 2015 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
When a workplace tragedy occurs a whole cast of characters appear. In our context the first will be the harmed loved one; then immediate family members; next, members of the extended family; followed by coworkers, medical services, investigators of various kinds,...
by Tom Wilson | Sep 29, 2015 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, Our Family Stories
On a Saturday afternoon in mid-September I attended a service of worship in memory and celebration of the life of a Facebook friend. She was more than that. She was a part of my life by our both belonging to the same congregational community. An accomplished musician...