Do you ever feel like you are drowning in your grief? I remember as a kid someone told me the story about a person who died by drowning in an inch of water. I could never understand what that would be like until my son died. I found this photo on-line and it reminded me of those feelings of overwhelming grief and how I felt as if I was a small stone lying on the bottom of a pool of water looking up. There are different kinds of grief....different levels of grief maybe? When

I am a grief counselor, workshop facilitator and author with many years spent helping grieving children and teens try to understand the feelings they were experiencing due to a loved one's death. I learned so much! But, most of what I learned about how to help children understand death and dying was by experiencing it first hand when my little boy Cory, was dying from leukemia. I was completely open with him and his sister. We talked about the process before during and afte

When someone you care about dies it is very common to re-experience or re-visit grief from a previous loss. It is much like navigating a map... a map of your pain and experiences. My friend's father died yesterday. He was one of the most incredibly kind, generous, thoughtful and inspiring men I have ever had the good fortune to meet in my life. His daughter Alycia was my best friend for many years. Then, she introduced me to her favorite sister Susan and I fell in love with