Creating conversations about loss

Transitions

BY EVELYN WALD March 21, 2018 11:17 AM Lately, I hear more and more people anxiously awaiting — when will spring weather finally arrive? Here in Pennsylvania we experience four seasons. Throughout the year weather and nature change as we transition from one season to another. Winter into spring may […]

Grief Also Has Its Seasons

May 18, 2018 in Grief / Transitions by LTLWYS Admin

Please read Elizabeth Brady’s most recent article on Open to Hope, http://www.opentohope.com/keep-door-soul-open/. This website also has many resources available to those needing tips for the holidays.

Keep the Door to Your Soul Open

December 21, 2017 in Belonging / Grief / Remembrance / Transitions by LTLWYS Admin

BY DIANA MALCOM AND BEN WIDEMAN We live in a community with strong seasonal patterns that have nothing to do with weather. The seasons of this big university plopped down in the middle of the State College area defines much of what the patterns of life are like for all […]

Soon-to-Be Graduates Reflect on Transition

June 22, 2017 in Grief / Transitions by LTLWYS Admin

BY ANNIE MASCELLI A ritual is a symbolic enactment of an intention. In this ritual, you’ll be symbolically releasing the past and affirming the future you want to create — turning your life experience into the wisdom that will guide you in the future. Use these guidelines as a starting […]

Use a Personal Ritual to Help You Let Go and ...

January 28, 2017 in Transitions by LTLWYS Admin

BY JACKIE HOOK For many, today is a day that involves gifts. As members of the Learning to Live: What’s Your Story? Initiative, we want to share some of the gifts we’ve received through our journeys from loss. Even though we’ve experienced loss, we’ve found gifts along the way and […]

Loss Can Bring Unexpected Gifts

January 17, 2017 in Grief / Transitions by LTLWYS Admin

BY CHRISTIAN BRADY A few weeks ago I was in Pittsburgh speaking about suffering and grace. I shared about the loss of our son, Mack, who died of a blood infection just short of his ninth birthday on New Year’s Eve 2012, and I shared about the grace of our […]

Celebrate the Love after a Loss

September 14, 2016 in Grief / Remembrance / Transitions by LTLWYS Admin

BY BEN WIDEMAN As a campus minister for 3rd Way Collective, I find myself in a lot of interesting spaces. Our organizational identity is rooted in faith-based peace and social justice, and striving for this means that our work ends up centering on what it means to belong. So many […]

Community Creates a Sense of Belonging

September 1, 2016 in Belonging / Grief / Transitions by LTLWYS Admin

BY DIANA MALCOM During the past few years, our world has known tremendous tragedy. Just last month, a plane crashed at our own airport, taking the life of a generous doctor and his pilot. That’s the local. It’s almost too painful to think beyond our own village. It demands much […]

Grieve a Great Loss at Your Own Pace

July 24, 2016 in Grief / Transitions by LTLWYS Admin

BY ALICIA ANDERSON I could barely drag myself out of bed the morning after Willow died. For nearly four and a half years, she had been the main reason I got up early, dressed and went out to walk in all weather. A gray and white Siberian Husky with heaps […]

Social Media Grief Sharing Can Help Heal

July 24, 2016 in Grief / Transitions by LTLWYS Admin

BY CHRISTIAN BRADY “In like a lion, out like a lamb.” “April showers bring May flowers.” Spring is a time of dramatic changes in weather, the cold hard earth softening and bringing forth new life … and endless clichés. Spring is not only the time of nature’s rebirth, it is […]

Preparing for Transitions

April 26, 2016 in Transitions by Christian Brady