SevenPonds Presents Our First Annual Healing Gift Guide

The tactile quality of these embroidered Penguin Classics makes for a special alone time gift.

Now that the holidays are upon us, I am taking the liberty of posting my bi-weekly column out of sequence to bring you our first annual Healing Gift Guide for 2011. Some of you may already be aware of the somber fact that there’s an increase in the amount of deaths immediately following the holidays. Over the years much speculation has surrounded the reason this occurs, ranging from the postponement of medical care, higher alcohol consumption, holiday diet or the impact of winter-related respiratory diseases. It could also simply be the age-old presupposed belief that our love and enjoyment of family holiday gatherings creates a fervent incentive to wait to depart until after the festivities.

The difficulty of holiday deaths, along with the possible need to comfort those who are grieving, terminally ill or have experienced a death at Christmas, is why we present you today with our favorite healing gifts. Since death can happen at any time of the year, we have made our guide available to our readers year-round as a slide show on our easily accessible Multimedia page. This is the time of year that compassion and benevolence surge our desire to help those we love who are experiencing emotional, and sometimes physical, pain, for whom a gift needs to be extra special. If you find yourself unsure of what to say to comfort a grieving friend or family, visit our recent post here.

A year of monthly Organic Bouquet sustainable roses is perfect for a friend who has experienced a loss.

Our team at SevenPonds has put great care into assembling this assortment of 15 unique comforting gifts. We cover a wide range of price options from a beautiful $16 Embroidered Penguin Classic book up to a $500 splurge of sheer love with Organic Bouquet’s fresh flowers cheerfully delivered to a friend or family member’s door each month. Our selection takes into consideration the early years, for both men and women, when one grieves alone. We offer everything from healing solo activities, to feel-good pick-me-ups, to endearing ways to record your memories. Since coping tends to dull the everyday senses we have also carefully considered gift ideas to tantalize (and hopefully awaken) the senses; taste, smell, and touch all aid in sensory healing. So we welcome you to take a look at our Healing Gift Guide for 2011.

As we enter into the holidays, I too will be with family, and so my next Sharing Suzette returns at the beginning of the New Year with a highly unusual take on death. Join me on January 2nd for a champagne toast (and a story that includes one) and an exploration into the passion of love so deep it brings new meaning to our marriage liturgy “till death do us part.”

I look forward to another year of sharing my thoughts, adventures, readings and much, much more with every one of you! Till then, Happy Holidays to all!

Revive's lavender eucalyptus heat wrap gives warm comfort with a lovely smell to coddle oneself while grieving.

View our Healing Gift Guide on our Multimedia page here.