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May 16, 2017
Heart & Soul Award: Congratulations Nancy Colocino

Heart & Soul Award: Congratulations Nancy Colocino, PhD.

Nancy has a heart for children, values diversity and equality, and is motivated to help make the world a better place. She has been involved in […]
May 16, 2017
Heart & Soul Award: Congratulations Linda McMahon

Heart & Soul Award: Congratulations Linda McMahon, RN

Linda McMahon, MS, MA is the Bereavement Services Manager at VITAS Innovative Hospice Care in Orange County. She has an extensive health care and pastoral care […]
May 16, 2017
Heart & Soul Award: Congratulations Jenna Harline

Heart & Soul Award: Congratulations Jenna Harline

For the past three years Jenna has served as the Assistant Director of Interfaith Relations for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Laguna […]
May 16, 2017
Heart & Soul Award: Congratulations Donna Beattie

Heart & Soul Award: Congratulations Donna Beattie, RN

Donna Beattie is an LVN (Licensed Vocational Nurse) with VNA Hospice. She has “officially” been a hospice nurse for 4 years, but realizes that this has […]
March 22, 2017
Stop Saying “Don’t Give Up.” Please.

Stop Saying “Don’t Give Up.” Please.

We say a lot of things to grieving people that under normal circumstances would be fine, hopefully even encouraging, but to people facing a life or […]
October 19, 2016
Look & Laugh

Look & Laugh, but Don’t TALK About Death: Halloween & Death Exposure

Before you think that I am anti-Halloween because of the ideas expressed below, I want to say that Halloween is actually my very favorite holiday. I […]
July 13, 2016
Keeping the Grief Box Open

Keeping the Grief Box Open

|| This month’s blog looks at unique and proactive ways to unpack the closed grief boxes in order to help create connection and more meaningful support.     […]
March 25, 2015
There was Glitter in Her Hair When Grandma Died: The Construction of a Death Story

There was Glitter in Her Hair When Grandma Died: The Construction of a Death Story

I was speeding by cars on the freeway driving like a maniac; my mom needed me at the hospital. My grandma had just been admitted, maybe […]
October 22, 2014

An Interview with a Cancer Patient: Kori and Breast Cancer

I’ve known Kori for a LONG time. Her story is one that can only be described as miraculous on steroids. For a long time Kori’s story […]