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Father’s Get Together

Dec

22

2013

In November ten bereaved fathers met for the first time as a group for an evening out together. We went bowling which provided the opportunity to be in a social setting while chatting with other dads. To be honest, I did not know how that would go. Would the setting be okay, would the music ...

Sense of meaning vs. feeling happy

Dec

18

2013

Apparently I keep coming back to the same topic again and again. I have written two posts already about meaning and purpose of life. When I received a newsletter from Stanford University that mentioned research about the millennial generation I did not expect it to cover this topic as well. The researchers published an opinion ...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 4

Dec

14

2013

Recently I read about PTSD in a UBC press release titled “Healing an invisible wound“. It mentioned a veterans transition program that was created to support military people who suffer from traumatic stress symptoms. When I read the article everything that was described sounded very familiar. It occured to me that a support group of ...

Remembrance Day

Nov

11

2013

Today is Remembrance Day and I am thinking back a few years and notice that my perception of the day has changed. Previously I was aware about the day and what it stood for, remembering the service and sacrifice of men and women to protect freedom. But I wasn’t entirely allowing myself to really consider ...

Man’s Search for Meaning 1

Nov

3

2013

My last post Meaninglessness was about the meaning of life and how one’s basic belief system and/or religious views might get challenged after tragedy strikes. Why did it happen at all, why did it happen to my family, how will we get through this? The reality is that bad things happen to a lot of ...

Meaninglessness

Nov

1

2013

I just came across a few images on my computer that I saved a while ago when I read “The year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion. I took a picture of two pages that resonated with me. Now that I read them again, I thought I should share them: “Grief turns out to be ...

Peace of Mind

Oct

21

2013

On October 12 the CBC National aired a story about Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing, headline “Paying for peace of mind”. The story starts at minute 12, but unfortunately the video recording is not available any more. I am not qualified to go into details about this test and medical advantages or disadvantages. According to my information ...

Ball on a string

Oct

12

2013

Seven years ago we received the phone call in the middle of the night that my father had died. Pong. My mind has just send me back through time and it feels like I just woke up with my mother standing in the door telling me the terrible news. But seven years have passed. Pong, ...

BC Place will glow Purple and Blue 8

Oct

7

2013

I am very excited right now and very glad to announce that BC Place will recognize Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day on October 15 by lighting up the roof in the colors of purple and blue. Here is part of the email I received today in response to our special lighting request: “Thank you ...

Rally the troops – from awareness to action

Sep

22

2013

The Huffington Post ran an article on September 10 by Erin Santos with the great title of “Awareness… What a Bullsh*t Word“. It challenges everyone to go beyond noticing tragedies to taking action. “Action saves lives, awareness does not.” The comments are very interesting as well. How do we get people to take action? It ...