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 Sarah Wheelan | Jul 28, 2015 | How We Help
I think it’s just human nature to believe that truly horrible things only happen to other people. That somehow, by virtue of being an average person with an average life and average dreams, the law of averages will also – somehow – mostly round out the...
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 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...
by Susan Haldane | Apr 21, 2015 | How We Help
They come in Friday evening looking nervous, hesitant, maybe even a bit hostile. And for good reason: these are family members whose child, spouse, parent or sibling has been killed on the job, permanently injured, or diagnosed with an occupational disease. They are...
by Susan Haldane | Mar 9, 2015 | How We Help
“I knew what it was like to be floating in the dark without someone to stand by you,” Liz Webley says. Despite support from family and friends, after her first husband Dick’s death, Liz felt alone and isolated in her grief. Her husband Dick VanRooyen was killed in...
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