As I began to write this blog, I was going to say that presence had many twists and turns. What is more true is that my journey with presence and was the thing that was circuitous. Often, I would rely on my head to explain presence to me. I was [...]
We just finished our 2nd intro seminar that is entitled, "Changing the conversation around grief" One of the topics that surfaced was having more than one type of conversation. I would like to reference the preemptory and the post-traumatic type conversation today. Our idea of changing the conversation starts with overcoming the stigma and [...]
https://youtu.be/wT7j9eQcEsU Holiday's can be really hard when you have lost a family member or had a difficult time this past year. Nancy and I have been talking about doing a series of conversations on grief. While I am new to doing videos, future postings will be a little less stiff as I attempt to [...]
This past August I had a Radical Prostatectomy My journey through this life event has given me a new appreciation for my health and the support I have in partnership with my wife, Nancy. We recently celebrated 51 years together and 45 years as man & wife. Had I not had the ability to share [...]
I've created a Self-Guided Grief journey based upon the lessons I have learned along the way on my now grief journey. It is a compilation of 25 videos that you can watch at your own pace combined with work sheets and resources to help you along the way. Here is the first video [...]
Being with Grief has an on-going project called Gift Circle. The idea is that we all have gifts and that we find meaning by sharing these gifts with others. The work that I have been called to do and offer here is based on this idea. I grew up during the 60 & 70’s during [...]
In talking about early grief, I consider it as two separate categories. The first can be called a “life-defining” grief, in my case, the grief I felt soon after our daughter, Leah died. The second is the grief you accumulate early in your life. For me, this early life grief was a series of [...]
I have spent a lot of time thinking about and working with grief including the pain, doubt, fear and shame that accompanies this human condition. While I have come to understand that grief is a normal and natural condition, I now also understand that grief as an emotion is different from living with the [...]
I had a dream about Leah last night. It’s been a while since that has happened. In the dream, I knew at some level that she was no longer with me in physical form, so it gave me great comfort to be with her in the dream. She was slightly older than when she left [...]
