Christmas Gifts for the Heart and Soul

December 8, 2012

Tweet Last year I wrote an article entitled The 12 Gifts of Christmas for a Grieving Heart (That Money Can’t Buy). I bestowed on you 12 Gifts of Christmas to bless your coming days and fill your heart with the caring, compassion and comfort that comes deep from another. From another who too knows how [...]

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Thanksgiving Thoughts for Hurting Hearts

November 21, 2012

Tweet I know for many of my US friends, Thanksgiving is this week and then of course the other holidays with the lead up to Christmas. Whether it is the year of firsts or way beyond that, it can still be a very difficult time for many. Our families are fragmented yet others are whole. [...]

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Hearts in the Sky

November 16, 2012

Tweet I walk my dog Jessie most days and much of that time is spent pondering life. As always my musings are never complete without some thought of my beautiful spirit son. And as I think of him I often look up into the clouds, into the magnificent sky.   Out of those wonderful clouds in the blueness [...]

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Sometimes I just need……

November 9, 2012

Tweet When we are grieving our needs change but in those first few days, weeks and months of grief we are needy, very needy. I don’t mean that in a bad way either. There is nothing wrong with recognizing what is going to support us as we do the unthinkable. Trying to get through the 1440 minutes [...]

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A Big Bunch of Love from Me to You

November 3, 2012

Tweet Around 2 years ago I started my Facebook page. It was called Esdeer, like this website. After a little while I thought perhaps for Facebook I would use another name. A name that spoke of what and how we get through this grief of ours. So that’s how Stepping through Grief came to be. [...]

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Grief Resources For Facebook & Twitter

October 31, 2012

Tweet This week marks the end of my Stepping through Grief Facebook page and my presence on Twitter. For many of you I know it has been your safe place. Your understood place. Your inspirational place. Your place where you can be you and know that what you are feeling is ok.  When we have [...]

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Keeping Our Loved Ones Always Near

October 26, 2012

Tweet The physical loss of someone we love so very much has no words. Can never have words for the agony we face without them. Keeping our loved ones near can seem impossible when our life is plunged into a new reality we never asked for or ever wanted. We are cast adrift from all [...]

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Those Myths of Grief Again

October 20, 2012

Tweet Some time ago I asked on my Facebook page, “What are the greatest myths of grief that are bandied about?” It caused a flurry of responses which I’ll share with you shortly. What was interesting is that many of the myths began to morph into the hurtful things that people had said reflecting and [...]

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