How Christmas Memories Can Bring Healing to Your Grief
By Karen Katafiasz Christmas and grieving don’t fit together. Christmas, as popular culture tells us, is supposed to be joyful, lively,…
By Karen Katafiasz Christmas and grieving don’t fit together. Christmas, as popular culture tells us, is supposed to be joyful, lively,…
Abbey Caskets, a work of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, will host a Service of the Longest Night on Saturday, December 17, 2022,…
Abbey Caskets, a work of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, will host a Service of the Longest Night on Saturday, December 18, 2021,…
By Linus Mundy What do you do when it feels like grief is your only possession? It has entered into your…
By M. Donna MacLeod “I don’t want to forget my John,” Regina said, staring at the photograph of her husband that…
By Peggy Ekerdt A few weeks after the sudden death of my brother-in-law, I spent the day with his 6-year-old son….
My mother, lying in a darkened hospital room, was close to death. But as she reached for my hand and looked…
My sisters and brothers and I met at the house the day after Mom’s funeral. With both Mom and Dad now…
My mother died one warm September evening nearly 20 years ago, and I remember well the first holiday season that followed—the…
Therapists and hotlines report an increase in calls during the Christmas holidays. It is no surprise, given the heightened expectations we…