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A Letter Asking for Sibling Support

Dear Gloria, I recently heard you speak at the Compassionate Friends group in Monterey. I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. We lost our 34 year old daughter to colon cancer in November 2006. She has 2 sisters. Jenny, her 29 year old sister lives in Brooklyn?works in Manhatten. I am doing the footwork to find out if your daughter has a sibling support group that she conducts or recommends. Thank you for any information you may be able to provide. Shirley Kiatta

Grace Notes: A Sweet and Sour Rip and Mend

Grace Notes By Natalie Costanza-Chavez We get Mothers Day wrong. We’re told to assume the sweetness, the flowers, the ease, and the “dream come true” of it all. We are led to expect a day in a glorious commercial, the house is clean, the dog is trained, and the children have flippy hair that’s never in their eyes. But, the truth of motherhood is much messier. It’s OK to say it. The truth of motherhood is a daily, sometimes moment-by-moment wild slide along a hard rail of gradation. It’s a trip, repeated again and again, from joy and what lies […]

Mother’s Day Again

by Marilyn Heavilin Author of Roses in December Once again, here it comes. This day shows up every year, and I still dislike it. That day is Mother’s Day! Why should I dread it? After all, I still have living children. Ah yes, but I also am the mother of three children who are no longer living. I always enjoyed remembering my own mother on Mother’s Day, but for myself, I would prefer to skip Mother’s Day. I generally attend church on Mother’s Day and many times women who are mothers are asked to stand so that they can be […]

Dialog re: Dr. Francesca McCartney on Healing the Grieving Heart

(Note: the following is in sequence from first to last) Hi Dr. Gloria- I found your show with guest Dr. Francesca to be extremely interesting. I wish I had her book the first year of grief since I also felt all my grief on a cellular level.? I thought the call in student said it well when she spoke of feeling the loss of the connection with? your loved one. Where? does all that energy go? I think that is the most profound feeling when it is a loss of a child. It’s amazing how the grief starts to shift […]

Thank You, Francesca

Dear Francesca, Thank you very much for sharing your personal journey and wisdom on?the show.? The words cannot describe how much I appreciate the show?on different levels.? I was so inspired and empowered to observe how?you and the modern mystics do the beautiful healing work in plain?English from a compassionate place.? It’s soooooooooooooooo different?from the typical healer or guru’s new age woo woo work.? And thank?you again for reminding me of using the most basic tool of grounding. in gratitude, XXXX

The GriefWorks

Hello Gloria! I was sure that I emailed you this afternoon, but can?t find it in the Sent folder.? Forgive me if I repeat myself here. Congratulations on expanding your ?ministry? to the bereaved.? It must be a joy to be working with your daughter!? I?ve added your website to the list of favorites that we give out to our clients.? I will be telling folks attending the support group tonight about it also. Please note that the correct email address for GriefWorks is:? info@griefworks.org or mel@griefworks.org.? We haven?t used the Yahoo address for several years.? Our retired co-founder was […]

Scheduled Chats on My Grief Space begin Sunday, May 6

Greetings Friends, As promised, SCHEDULED CHATS will begin this coming Sunday evening, MAY 6th, at 7 PM. A different topic is sceduled each evening to accommodate member requests to chat with others experiencing a loss similar in nature to their own. Please mark your calendar and let’s get the Chat Rooms Chatting. Chats are monitored and moderated at random, so please report any inappropriate behavior to support@mygriefspace.com if a moderator is not in attendance. WEEKLY CHAT SCHEDULE (reoccurs every week) SCHEDULED CHAT – TIME ZONE EXAMPLE: (7 PM PST) = (8 PM MST) = (9 PM CST) = (10 PM […]

A New Feature at My Grief Space

Greetings Friends, By popular request we are working on a BRAND NEW feature which will allow members to sell products (arts, crafts, books, personal items, products, etc). We will send out more details very soon. As some of you may have noticed, all previous features from the VIP Membership are now FREE, as well. View a list of these features on our homepage, in the large blue boxes.

Brother’s suicide drives Bears draft pick Bazuin to succeed

Published April 30, 2007 Not until 3:15 a.m. Sunday did Dan Bazuin finally say goodbye to the last local to leave the pole barn outside McBain , Mich. , where the Bazuin family held his NFL draft party. Bazuin estimated about 400 “Baners” showed up to celebrate the Bears taking him in the second round with the 62nd pick Saturday, not a bad turnout for a town of 597 in north central Michigan. It was the one person who wasn’t there Bazuin noticed most. “I thought about him the whole day and how much he’d love being at the party,” […]

Feeling Guilt for Grieving

I lost my 44 year old daughter, Elizabeth, to breast cancer on July 4, 2006. She left a husband, a 24 yr old son and 2 daughters, 9 & 10-1/2, as well as 2 loving older sisters. I have been devastated since her death. Even though we knew after her first diagnosis 3-1/2 years before she died that she would not survive. She fought so hard to live. During her last few months I stayed with her and was her caregiver. We became so close. She told me how scared she was. She told me shortly before she died “Mom, […]

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