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Our Annual Seven Holiday Gifts for Someone Who Is Grieving, 2024 Edition: Gracious gifts that spread love and beauty -
“Making Mobiles” by Karolina Merska: An artist’s manual on how to create beautiful Polish pajaki -
“Hands Up to the Sky” by Michael Franti & Spearhead: A surprisingly upbeat song about acknowledging both loss and the beauty of life
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Tag Archives: Loss
Flower Power: Oils for Loss and the Stages of Grief
Oils to aid the stages of grief both during and after a memorial
5 Tips to Heal from a Loss with Floral Oils: Overlooking the effects a loss can have on our emotional and physical well-being is not an uncommon scenario. But in the middle of the flurry that is prepping for a … Continue reading
Posted in Practical Tips
Tagged Aromatherapy, Chamomile, Cinnamon, Death, Essential oil, Essential Oils, Flower, Flower Oils, Flower Power, Geranium, Grief, Grieving, Health, Heart, Lavender, Lavender oil, Loss, Loss of a Loved One, Oil therapy, Rose, Stages of Grief
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Elizabethtown by Cameron Crowe
“Deep, beautiful, meloncholy of everything that happened” Claire Colburn
Films are exits from reality. They allow you to escape into your own fantasy—but they can offer more than just that. Films are a way of broadening our perspectives and of learning things that we have yet to experience. … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Cameron Crowe, Cremation, Elizabethtown, end-of-life, Grieving, Grieving Guidance, Humor, Kirsten Dunst, Loss, Loss of Father, Orlando Bloom
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Bali Fire Burials
Exploring the Balinese's liberation of the soul through fire and water
All around the world, people practice their own funerary customs and traditions. Some cultures practice air sacrifices, some practice cave burials – but people from Bali, Indonesia, combine religion and cremation in a ritual known as the fire burial. Through fire burial, … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Perspectives
Tagged Bali, Balinese, Balinese funeral, Cremation, family loss, Fire Burials, Funeral, Hinduism, Indonesia, Loss
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A Film About Love and Loss Debuts in San Francisco
Join us for the screening of "When The Fall Comes" and support Josie's Place, which provides for bereaved children and families
Come join Adriana Marchione and filmmakers Wyatt Roy and Michael Brandt for the initial screening of the documentary film, When the fall Comes—a film about love and loss. Tickets ($12) are available for this Sunday, March 9th at 2 pm. Doors … Continue reading
Posted in Something Special
Tagged Films on Loss, Loss, Love and Loss, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, When the Fall Comes
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What Is The Centre for Living with Dying Program? An Interview with Janet Childs
The Director of Education at the Centre for Living with Dying program on grieving the loss of a loved one
Janet Childs is the Director of Education and Critical Incident Stress Response at the Centre for Living with Dying program. She works specifically within the Bill Wilson Center, a nonprofit located in the San Francisco Bay Area that is dedicated … Continue reading
My Evening with Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin – Who Would Have Thought We’d Be at This Feminist Junction
Feminism takes on it’s final movement: the right way to both age and die well
When I saw the name Gloria Steinem on the City Arts and Lectures mailer (also known as the NPR interviews,) I immediately phoned in for my ticket. I had no intention of missing one of my all-time favorite female pioneers. … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged breast cancer, C Word, Cancer, City Arts and Lectures, Dealing with an Illness, Death and Dying, Gloria Steinem, How to Be A friend To A Friend Who’s Sick, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Loss, Ms Magazine, NPR, Sickness, terminal illness, The Big C, What to Do When Dealing With Terminal Illness
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