Remembering and Being Remembered
Taking Care of Death is Taking Care of Life
Deathcare: Not just another retail transaction
Have your best year yet by planning for the inevitable
If January is your time to plan for your best year yet, we invite you to include planning for your inevitable, unpredictable death. Say what?
Cracked Wide Open
A New Age of Funeral Services
As WILLOW unfolds, Reena and I continue to learn and grow in all ways. We do our best to translate that learning into useful tools and thoughtful opportunities to inform and inspire you to make the most of your finite and precious life and to explore the mystery that is death. One of my mentors […]
Oh, How I Love a Good Funeral!
In honour of Donald Edward Grayston, 1939 – 2017.
About the only thing worse than experiencing the death of someone you care about, is doing it without the the kind of good-bye rituals that truly reflect their essence. Fortunately, I knew this would not be the case when our dear friend Don Grayston died last month.
Five-minute Love Letter
There are many ways Catherine’s life has changed by working through WILLOW’s curriculum for writing Love Letters and a Heart Will. The exploration brought her and some friends together to delve into the scope of their personal feelings about the fact that someday and they don’t know when, they are each going to die and whether they are intentional about it or not, they each will leave a legacy. They soon discovered or confirmed who and what matter most in their lives.
Love and Sorrow + Free Reality of our Mortality Learning Circles
Sarah attended our first of six Reality of our Mortality Learning Circles at the end of last month and gave me permission to share how exploring love and sorrow in this safe, open-hearted community was exactly what she needed.
How honouring another helps us heal ourselves
When we know those we love well, we can honour their essence in life and in death. It’s my belief, that this honouring of another at the time of their death plays a key role in our own healing journey.
