Archives of Funerals

Feeding The Faith

Dear Friends: I hope this post finds you and yours in safety and some semblance of peace during this current “wartime” in our world. I feel, at this time, we must feed our faith as we move through the next phases of the Pandemic. We are still in the middle of this crisis and moving forward will be […]
4 years ago

Celebrating Realistically Across The Miles

Dear Friends:  I hope this message finds you growing in strength, moment by moment, as we face the future! Togetherness from afar has many of us grappling with change. The yearning to connect in our familiar ways is a very real struggle and the consequences of non-compliance is (at best) harsh. Being alone is not in […]
4 years ago

I Thought I Had More Time

Dear Friends: For more than the past month, I have been preparing because I know the consequences of not being prepared. You see I lost my Hurricane Andrew so my preparedness began by seeing China as the storm watch, then Italy as the storm warning. Those of us familiar with these terms know that watches and warnings precede the […]
4 years ago
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Why I Wrote My Own Funeral

This past summer I sought a therapeutic process of writing my own funeral.  Now I want to share why I wrote my own funeral.  I got the idea of doing this due to my experience of guiding people through the funeral process of a loved one.  When a loved one dies, the experience of urgency […]
4 years ago
Yahrzeit Candle

Remembering The Dearly Departed

Remembering the dearly departed is a significant tradition amongst Jews.  It’s called Yahrzeit and is a Yiddish word meaning anniversary of a death.  Traditionally the anniversary falls on the Hebrew date, not the Gregorian date.  To commemorate the Yahrzeit, mourners light a Yahrzeit candle, which burns for 24 hours.  They say Kaddish prayer and hopefully […]
5 years ago

The Power of the Soul: Lessons on Grief, Recovery and What Comes Next

The Power of the Soul: Lessons on Grief, Recovery and What Comes Next Grief is a powerful emotion that touches us all at some point in our lives, but very few of us have the tools to process these feelings. As a grief counselor and life coach, as well as through my personal experiences with […]
5 years ago
Life After Death 3 Powerful Lessons

3 POWERFUL LESSONS ABOUT GRIEF AND RECOVERY.

Get these 3 powerful lessons about grief and recovery now.  A few months ago I was interviewed by the very dynamic Margaret Manning, who is the global women’s leader of Sixty and Me  Her growing online community has 50,000+ women learning how to better their life after sixty.  She’s now building her latest site, LifeAfterDeath.com and […]
5 years ago

Remembering Michaela Levit, z’l, an IDF Volunteer

Today I woke up, triggered by learning of the death of Michaela Levit, z”l.  Today I woke up.  Today Michaela Levit, a passionate young american woman from South Florida will not wake up today.  Today she is being buried six feet under the ground as two days ago she died at the age of 20.  […]
5 years ago

Death Café Via Zoom With Melinda

PLEASE JOIN US!  Death Café Via Zoom With Melinda   7-7:45pm, July 18th, 2018 on Zoom Meetings Every one is going to die, nobody gets out of it! Our identities are changed when we talk about death. Generally speaking, people are death phobic and this event aims to release the phobia with the ultimate creation […]
6 years ago

Death of the body is going to happen

 “Death is of the body is going to happen. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but it will happen.” What can we do today to be better prepared for our inevitable end? To begin with, we can start having open and honest conversations that reflect our feelings about death, the afterlife.. Many family members feel the need […]
7 years ago
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