Online memorials 9 min read Best online memorial websites in 2026 In brief Losing someone is hard, and choosing a place to remember them should not add to the weight. An online memorial website gives family and friends one quiet place...
Ways to remember 7 min read Thoughtful Ways to Honor and Remember a Loved One Grief doesn’t have an end date. If you’ve lost someone close to you, you probably know that already, even if the people around you seem to have moved on. Love...
Grief series 6 min read Functioning While Struggling: Who Gets Permission to Stop? Part 1 “Functioning doesn’t mean you are not suffering.” Why do we wait until suffering becomes impossible to ignore before we change what we’re asking of the person carrying it? For many...
Grief series 10 min read I carried you, I hold you beyond loss. Part 5: Hope against the odds. If you missed part 4 “Love without rest” – you can read it first to follow the story. Hope has a quiet way of returning. It does not always arrive...
Grief experience 3 min read Light: a story about grief, healing, hope, and finding your way back The Little Lamp and Her Light Once upon a time there was an oil lamp who shone brightly where she had been placed and loved being a light. She lit...
Coping with grief 3 min read Why Does Grief Come in Waves? Finding Hope in the Ups and Downs of Healing “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”— Galadriel, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring After someone we love dies, it can be...
Child loss 4 min read Before and After Loss: How Grief Changes the Way We See Time Sometimes grief does not just change how you feel. It changes the way you understand time itself. There is a moment when life stops being measured by ordinary dates and...
Grief series 2 min read The Loss That Has No Funeral: Loving the Life You Have Part 2 In Part 1, I shared how grief can be about more than what happened. Sometimes, we grieve the life we thought we’d have—the years we couldn’t get back, the years...
Grief series 4 min read Honoring the Past While Moving Forward This is Part 2 of the series. In Part 1, I shared why grief can leave us longing for “the old days”—not just for the people we’ve lost, but for...
Grief series 4 min read Why Grief Makes You Miss the Life You Had Before Loss The Ache for “The Old Days” There’s a specific kind of homesickness that has nothing to do with a place. It’s the quiet ache of missing the life you had...
