by Sarah Wheelan | Sep 1, 2015 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, How We Help
Threads of Life tries to provide family members with as many different healing tools as possible. It often takes several tools to build your own personal coping and healing strategy, so you may need to try a few on for size!One size does not fit all, nor should it....
by Audrey Stringer | Aug 4, 2015 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
After a workplace fatality, the old “normal” life is gone, and it won’t be coming back. When will life feel normal again? What will this “new normal” look like, and how will you get there? Following is an excerpt from Audrey Stringer’s book Scaling the Mountain of...
by Susan Haldane | Jul 21, 2015 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
With all that we know about our world and ourselves, there continues to be one mystery science can’t penetrate: death. What is dying like? What happens to us after we die? With her book Opening Heaven’s Door, writer Patricia Pearson aims to cast a light on...
by Paulette Raymond | Jun 9, 2015 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, How We Help
Family forum means the world to those grieving a workplace tragedy Driving to the family forum I begin to reflect on the weekend ahead: who I will meet for the first time; who I will get to see again; my confidantes; the people I trust; the people that “get...
by Susan Haldane | May 27, 2015 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care
People have probably used writing as therapy for almost as long as the written word has existed. Somehow we just know that writing about our heartbreaks and joys makes us feel better. And psychology bears this out – writing about emotional upheavals can improve...
by Susan Haldane | May 5, 2015 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, How We Help
When I came to work at Threads of Life, among the first members I met were two terrific women named Eva and Patti. Eva’s son was killed when he fell from the roof of a 60-foot building on a construction site in 2006. Eva is a trained Volunteer Family Guide, and she...
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