How community service leads to personal healing Hearts of Hope provides hope and healing to everyone involved, whether you’re receiving a heart from our organization or creating one for someone else. At the Heart of It • Our events provide healing for participants through therapeutic art and result in ceramic
At the Heart of It • Grief can feel like a bottomless pit that’s impossible to escape. • While there is no “getting over it,” we can gradually climb out of that pit and find joy again. • We do that by making small, intentional choices that lead us to
From therapeutic art workshops with cancer patients to podcast interviews with athletic coaches, I’ve seen how different the effects of grief are in different people. We can feel it emotionally, we can watch it manifest itself physically, and we can see it reflected in our behaviors. But at the very
This post explores the connection between fear and grief and how having a merciful perspective creates an opportunity for healing. At the Heart of It • Fear is a normal part of grief, but it also can lead to feelings of anger and encourage shutting off from other emotions and
Whose grief is worse: the doctor who loses her patient, or the family who loses their beloved dog? Which situation is harder: a long, debilitating illness, or a sudden accident? What community suffers more: the neighborhood devastated by a hurricane, or the town shocked by a mass shooting? I hear
“You were so lucky to have her for so long.” Martha was 75 years old when her mother, Rose, died. Rose had just turned 101. Martha’s friends comforted her by saying how lucky Rose was to live so long, and how lucky Martha was to have that time with her.
