by Sarah Wheelan | Feb 10, 2016 | How We Help, Volunteers
It’s a great honour to hear someone share their story of loss — to be invited to bear witness to such love and deep pain, and to be trusted with its weight.Each year our Threads of Life speaker volunteers present their stories dozens of times in venues and...
by Susan Haldane | Jan 5, 2016 | How We Help
5 steps for keeping your goals Many resolutions are resolved, promises promised and goals set during the bright early hours of New Year’s morning. And the vast majority of those resolutions won’t last the week. But if you’re serious about changing a habit or...
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...
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