The Perfect Gift for a Grieving Child or Adult

For the child (or even adult) who is grieving, we recommend a combination of the book Waterbugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children with the gift of a dragonfly in some form.  The book is a beautifully illustrated story about waterbugs who are fearful about why sometimes one of their kind disappears up out … [Read more...]

The Book That Launched Uplifting Connections: Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch

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This book resonated so strongly in our lives that we all – my husband John, my stepdaughter Jen, and me – ended up with our own copies, dog-eared and well-loved. It shaped our experience with cancer and continues to shape my life to this day. One of the central tenets of the book is that every thought, word, or act … [Read more...]

Uplifting Connections – Mediums and Healing Grief

When I lost the two of the men I loved most in the world within 2 months of each other,  it was the resources we now have at Uplifting Connections that saved me, gave me hope, and slowly but surely helped me to see that life would go on.  To me, grief has two main tentacles that wrap themselves around your soul: 1) the … [Read more...]