One of the nicest complements I have ever received was told me second hand. A funeral director, whose firm sends our Continuing Care Series to the families they serve, told of a rather large and gruff man whose wife had died...

At a recent conference a woman whose husband had been dead a few months said, "I can't stand the numbness, the pain is horrible, but I am so tired of just feeling numb. How can I hurt like I do and be numb at the same time?"...

If you boil down everything all of us authors have written about grieving, it boils down to one word--PERMISSION. The key to a successful grief journey, is finding permission to grieve...