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    Special Topics, Your Grief

    At Thanksgiving, Say Their Names

    Friday, November 25, 2016

    This article was first published on Open to Hope in 2010. Thursday will be the 21st Thanksgiving I’ve lived through following the death of my 18-month-old daughter Erin in 1990.  […]

    Tags grief, hope, Multiple Deaths, signs and connections

    Category Special Topics, Your Grief

    Death of a Child

    Scripting Our Own Paths After The Death of Our Children

    Monday, August 17, 2015

    My sincere and heartfelt thanks to both Susan Roback and Patty Furino for inspiring much of the content for this post. Deepening Bonds and  Linking Objects The relationship that I continue to […]

    Tags Continuing Bonds, Dave Roberts, Dennis Klass, getting to the other side of grief, Jeannine Roberts, Linking Objects, Ph.D, signs and connections

    Category Death of a Child

    Bereavement, Death of a Child

    Years After Daughter’s Death, an Extraordinary Day

    Sunday, February 8, 2015

    I have been to our university’s graduation parties several times since my daughter passed away, but they were never held in the same hall that her high school graduation had […]

    Tags loss of a child, signs and connections, special occasions

    Category Bereavement, Death of a Child

    Death of a Child, Your Grief

    Colors of the Spirit: We Are All One in Grief

    Thursday, July 24, 2014

    Embracing Sacred Law From July 11, 2014 through July 13,2014, I attended the 37th National Conference of The Compassionate Friends in Chicago, Illinois.I have been attending and presenting workshops for […]

    Tags Dave Roberts, getting to the other side of grief, signs and connections, spirituality, Teachings From Nature

    Category Death of a Child, Your Grief

    Death of a Child

    Messages of Love

    Tuesday, June 3, 2014

    Over the years since my son’s death by overdose in 2004, I have received many messages and signs from him. Some have come in dreams, some through songs on the […]

    Tags after-death communication, getting to the other side of grief, guilt, healing, hope, signs and connections

    Category Death of a Child

    Death of a Child, Other Losses

    The Upside of Sadness in Our Grief Journeys

    Monday, May 19, 2014

    Entitled No More During the last few days of my existence, I have experienced more sadness than usual. Considering that I am a parent whose child died  over 11 years […]

    Tags Dave Roberts, getting to the other side of grief, signs and connections

    Category Death of a Child, Other Losses

    Death of a Child

    Finding Light in the Darkness of Grief

    Friday, March 14, 2014

    Over four years after her death, thoughts of my daughter fill my mind every day. She has now been gone longer than she was alive. It wasn’t supposed to be […]

    Tags bereavement, getting to the other side of grief, grief, healing, hope, Moving forward, signs and connections

    Category Death of a Child

    Death of a Child, Special Topics, Your Grief

    Getting Through Halloween after Child’s Death

    Sunday, October 20, 2013

    On the evening I type this, the nip in the October air is a reminder that the major holidays are just around the corner. Halloween decorations have been in the […]

    Tags signs and connections

    Category Death of a Child, Special Topics, Your Grief

    Death of a Child, Special Topics, Your Grief

    How the Graveyard Became a Place of Peace

    Friday, October 18, 2013

    There’s the joke about the cemetery. “How many dead people are in there?” The answer: “All of them.” Or, “People are dying to get in there.” It brought a smile […]

    Tags grief, hope, signs and connections

    Category Death of a Child, Special Topics, Your Grief

    Death of a Parent, Your Grief

    The Shadow of My Father

    Saturday, June 15, 2013

    The following article was originally published by The Grief Toolbox (www.thegrieftoolbox.com) on November 21,2012. I received a strong nudge to repost this article about my father on this site on […]

    Tags Dave Roberts, getting to the other side of grief, hope, signs and connections, spirituality

    Category Death of a Parent, Your Grief

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