Thanks to Tribute.com who sent this information to us all at Widows Quest.
“According to a recent article in U.S. News & World Report, researchers have identified key factors that define “Prolonged Grief Disorder,” a disorder thought to exist when a person becomes stuck for months or years in a grief and loss cycle and is unable to move on with their lives.
For those of us that know someone like this, it can be difficult to know what to do or say to make the other person feel better. According to David Kessler, Grief and Loss Specialist for Tributes.com, “Many of …read more

Thank you for making this such a special week, my mum has been reading through all your memorial posts and through her tears (!) she thought they were so heart warming – she said Dad would be proud of finding a way of helping others through their grief. So here are some more
I got an email from Chloe Findlay-Harderwho said
I’d like to submit this link for your “Remembering Them” post this week.  My mother (Noreen from Hankering for Yarn) & I created a series of memorial textiles to celebrate my grandmother’s life – for her church – tangled thread
What …read more

I have been so overcome with the tributes that I have received from you all, here are some more from readers and Dad would love them! Grief really seems to bring out the most wonderful words…
 Louise wrote
“I saw him for the first time in a sports arena. I caught his eye, and it was true love at first sight. He melted me with his eyes, I will never forget that first time that we met. Thirty years of love and happiness, I lost my wonderful David to cancer. I watched him waste a way, yet the love in his eyes …read more

Today would have been my Dad’s birthday and I asked readers for tributes to their loved ones. I received this wonderful tribute from Leslie
My husband, Rick was a very big man. He could be quite intimidating. But, for those who knew him he was a kind man with a great sense of humour who would do anything for those about whom he cared. He ran a music store for many years here in London, Ontario. In this capacity he helped many young musicians over the years. He didn’t care if they had blue hair or multiple piercings. He would always …read more

Dad was a huge influence on my life, and someone I miss every day since he died in 2003. Dad was the original shy, retiring person until….he was with people. He loved people – his whole aim in life was to firstly help friends and family as much as humanly possible and secondly to find the good in each person that he met. It would have been his 84th birthday today – the glorious 12th.
Like many people, I don’t think I truly understood the strength of my love until it was too late. Somehow, you believe that parents will be …read more

Just 2 days to go to the deadline for you to email me your memories, your poems, your tributes…whatever you like to honor your lost relatives memory. It will would have been my Dad’s birthday next Tuesday which has prompted me to put together our best memories.
So email your stories to anna@b5media.com I am looking forward to reading them all
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