When I was a small child I loved to lie on my back in the yard and look up at the clouds. I would look for shapes but I also thought that if I looked hard enough and long enough I might get a glimpse of Heaven. When I saw streams of light it depicted for me that God was talking. I still like to think of that one. And I still try to listen to hear what he wants me to know. As I sit here with tears streaming down my face I am trying to figure out a balance between keeping my h

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