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 adminThreadsofLife | Nov 19, 2020 | How We Help, Volunteers
She is a traveler. She is a helper. She is a lover of people. Elisa is also a mother. One of her children, her son, Jeremy Bowley, died Aug. 1, 2013. He was working with a crew setting up a wedding tent on the rain-soaked lawn of a farmhouse, when a pole for the tent...
by adminThreadsofLife | Nov 12, 2020 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, How We Help
“Gratitude is like a supplement; it is a balm for the heart and soul.” Johanna LeRoux presented this idea as a facilitator for the “Giving Gratitude & Finding Hope in Loss” Zoom session during the National Virtual Family Forum. Johanna, a fellow family member and...
by Susan Haldane | Nov 4, 2020 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, How We Help
Loss is never a simple matter. Each person’s experience of grief and loss is different, and understanding our own responses makes us better able to cope and maintain mental wellness. Loss applies not only to death, facilitator Karen Simmonds explained during her...
by Susan Haldane | Oct 29, 2020 | Grief, Growth, and Self-Care, How We Help
When you throw a boomerang, it comes right back to you every time. “Boomerang grief” comes back to you too, and it’s one of the types of grief very common to those who’ve experienced a serious injury, illness or a death related to work. Boomerang grief was one of the...
by Susan Haldane | Oct 22, 2020 | How We Help
Candles were glowing across the country as Threads of Life’s first virtual Reflections Ceremony joined hearts and memories on an October afternoon. You could almost feel the warmth from all those flames on kitchen tables, desks, mantels and window sills from coast to...
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