by Jan Falls | Aug 10, 2016 | 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 | Jul 19, 2016 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
[Adapted from the Resource Guide for Volunteer Family Guides]Most people do not know how unrelieved stress affects them. The first step in managing stress is to recognize how your body reacts to it. Once you recognize this reaction, you can begin to use self-care...
by Tami Helgeson | Jul 5, 2016 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, How We Help
A while back I was asked to put down on paper what I had spoken about at one of our Advanced Volunteer Family Guide training sessions. This has been hard for me as I usually just say things from the heart and find it difficult to remember the details of the...
by Shirley Hickman | Jun 8, 2016 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, How We Help
He came home from work and I asked the usual question: “How was your day?” He seemed excited as he responded “A good day”. “That’s good,” was my reply, then “are you ready for dinner?” During dinner, we sat mostly in silence – the occasional look at each other....
by Patti Penny | May 17, 2016 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, Volunteers
I chose to become a speaker with Threads of Life so that I may tell of the workplace incident that happened with our son Luke, May 19, 2010. I do not want any other family to have to go through the heartache and destruction that our family has had to endure. I want...
by Shirley Hickman | Mar 22, 2016 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
“Twenty years on an iceberg” – Does the title of that song sound lonely? Does twenty years seem like a long time? Why is it when we look ahead, twenty years seems to be a long way away, and when we reflect back, twenty years doesn’t seem so long. Why the difference?...
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