In 1967, Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe developed The Social Readjustment Scale to measure the impact of stress related events on one’s health. On their top ten list of most stressful events, both the loss of a spouse and the loss of a close family member rank as two of the most stressful events in our lives. Losing a spouse […]
It’s not something about which we like to think, but death is part of life and what we leave behind can be an utter mess or it can be of comfort to our loved ones. All in all, unless you are in your mid-60s on, your chance of dying over the next year is somewhat limited, but it’s not nothing. […]
We began this blog on a personal note, maybe not quite our story, but the story of our mother. Our father was sick with cancer, and neither he nor my mother could face the truth and have the hard conversation. He died, she was in a fog, left to figure out what is where. When we are healthy and busy […]