Journey of Hearts - Grief, Loss & Transitions

The Violet Heart 

The Violet Heart Collection

The Violet Heart Collection features pins, items and gifts designed for people facing a life changing event and to recognize that someone is experiencing a challenge or transition. The Violet Flower and the Purple Heart were the inspiration behind the...

Journey of Hearts Special CarePages Section 

Our Custom CarePages for Anyone Grieving a Loss

CarePages - Connect Friends and Family During Times of Challenge

CarePages unique service allows you to create a personal, private web page to help family and friends communicate when a loved one is facing illness whether at the beginning of life as a newborn, at the end of life, or somewhere in between. Creating...

More Squidoo Lenses on Coping with Grief and Loss 

Help a Child Cope with Loss and Grief

Children and adolescents are not immune to facing loss, death, dying and grief; they encounter loss and will experience a grief response. Much as we, as parents and teacher, might want to protect and shelter children and try to create a world for the...

Loss, Grief and Bereavement

Loss is the disappearance of something cherished, often the death of a person, loss of a relationship, loss of a job or loss of health. Grief is the entire response--mind, body and spirit--to the loss. Bereavement is the often term used when the loss...

How to Cope with Loss and Grief - Healthy Coping Strategies

When faced with a loss, crisis or life-changing event, you are suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar world, one that can be frightening and unsettling. Knowing how to make it through the first few days or hours can help. This lens offers articles and re...

Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep - The Poem, The Song and The Book 

Resources for those Coping with Grief, Loss and Transitions

Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep - A Poem, A Song and A Book to Comfort

This lens is dedicated to the favorite bereavement poem, "Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep" words of sympathy that have brought comfort to many since it was written. This beloved poem has also been put to music as a stirring song and most...

Helping Children Cope with Loss - Loss of a Pet, Death and Divorce 

Resources for a Child Who Has Experienced a Loss

Helping A Child Cope With Divorce

When you're heading for a divorce, don't forget the children.  There's a brilliant new interactive game that's specially designed to help your child cope with the trauma of divorce, plus books that help your child understand that just because th...

Help a Child Cope with Loss and Grief

Children and adolescents are not immune to facing loss, death, dying and grief; they encounter loss and will experience a grief response. Much as we, as parents and teacher, might want to protect and shelter children and try to create a world for the...

Death of a Mother

His Mommy Died Today (Please Answer Your Cell Phone Mommy) This poem is based on true story. Although I didn't personally know this beautiful boy, I was told of this eleven year old's pain over his mother's death. He kept calling his mother's...

The Loss of a Beloved Pet

The loss of a pet is one of the most difficult things a person can go through in their lifetime.  A pet to most people is just like a member of the family and when that pet dies, it leaves much sadness and grief.  Almost everyone at some po...

Squidoo Lenses on Using Music When Grieving 

Music Thanatology - Music as Therapy at the End of Life

Music Thanatology is the practice of using music to comfort, calm and relieve the suffering of someone in the final stages of life; it is using music to ease the passage of someone who is terminally ill or dying. Since Music has been a part of my lif...

Music Therapy - A Harmonious Complementary Therapy

According to the American Music Therapy Association, Music Therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages.  Music therapy improves the quali...

Josh Groban - Touching the Soul - Healing the Grieving Heart

The first time I realized the healing effect of listening to Josh Groban sing was watching him sing 'To Where You Are' on an episode of Ally McBeal in 2001. David E. Kelly wrote the special Christmas episode as a tribute to those who had died on Sep...

Other Squidoo Lenses for Grief & Loss 

Comforting Lenses for Those Who Have Experienced a Loss

How to Cope with Grief

Travel with me as you go on the journey of coping with grief. There is no guarantee here, no magical wand, just the assurance that your life will get better.  It will never be the same as before your loved one died, but gradually you will feel s...

Widowhood Sucks: How the heck do I start this lawnmower?

......and a hundred and one other things that I never expected to have to learn. I can picture the scene like it was yesterday. Rick, my husband, was watching CSI reruns sprawled on the bed and slowly drifting into a mid-afternoon nap. My youngest ste...

Soul Food - Temple of Solace

Engage in the City of Ladies Walking Tour as led by le Enchanteur. And the whole earth was of one speech. The language of loss and grief was confounded too. The Temple of Solace is a place where people who have been scattered and made to feel isolat...

When Life Won't Stop Hurting

The road of life is paved with many sorrows.  The loss of a loved one through death or divorce is among the most painful experiences humans face.  Fortunately, there is help for this most difficult of journeys. I have collected a number of...

Grief & Loss Club - Journey of Hearts Lens is a Founding Member 

Griefdocs Squidoo Group

Grief & Loss Club Headquarters

The Grief & Loss Club is for lenses that have information, resources and support to anyone grieving a loss. The Grief & Loss Club is one that people do not choose to join, rather it is a club that their experience of grief has given t...

Ideas for Breavement and Sympathy Gifts from Other Squidoo Lenses 

Gifts for Those Who Have Experienced a Loss

The Violet Heart Collection

The Violet Heart Collection features pins, items and gifts designed for people facing a life changing event and to recognize that someone is experiencing a challenge or transition. The Violet Flower and the Purple Heart were the inspiration behind the...

Sympathy & Bereavement Gifts

When someone you know loses a loved one, it's often difficult to know what to say - sympathy is a hard sentiment to articulate for most of us. Because the right words are not easy to find, bereavement gifts can be a good way to express condolence. ...

Meaningful Bereavement Gift Ideas

It's hard to know what to do when a friend loses a loved one. But you can be a light in the darkness for your friend if you spend a few minutes to find a meaningful bereavement gift to give.  When you take the time to give a more personal gift, y...

My Lenses for NICU Parents Whose Baby is at the End of Life 

Information, Resources & Support for the End of a Baby's Life

My NICU Baby is Dying: Now What?

This lens is developed to support the 1,000's of NICU Parents each year who must face the difficult realization that their NICU baby will not be discharged to home because their NICU baby is dying. Each year nearly 30,000 infants die in the United St...

My NICU Baby has Died: Now What?

Many parents consider the loss of a child to be the highest level of loss. The information on the site cannot take away the intense pain and sorrow you are feeling. Instead I offer information, resources and support that others who have been in simil...