When Children Grieve – Introduction

Put Your Oxygen Mask on First What happens at the beginning of every commercial airline flight?   The cabin staff make a series of announcements about the safety procedures to follow in the unlikely event that an emergency should occur. Anyone who has flown will recall hearing what to do if the oxygen masks drop […]

When Children Grieve – The Book

The first of its kind, When Children Grieve teaches parents how to initiate in their children lifelong, healthy response patterns to grief and to empower them with effective methods for dealing with loss. There are many life experiences that can produce feelings of grief in a child – everything from the death of a relative […]

“When Children Grieve” Authors – John W. James and Russell Friedman

Loss and Grief Is so prevalent in our society, we don’t realize we are grieving or actually addressing the loss we experience in our day-to-day life.  It’s just like there is something that is in front of us, but we don’t see it.  We either ignore it, just don’t recognize it or we don’t want […]

Grief is Hard . . . Yet there is Hope

My Story How Renewing Your Possibility is possible Back in July of 2012 I was asked to write an article for a new online parent magazine to give a voice to grief from a mom and trauma that comes from loss. This is because my life has been touched with deep loss and grief with […]

What is loss?

What is loss? The dictionary defines loss as “the fact or process of losing something or someone.”  And, “the state or feeling of grief when deprived of someone or something of value.” Loss happens in all different forms.  Often times when we think about loss we think of losing a loved one, grandmother, father, friend […]