by KimBoo York | Aug 17, 2013 | Reflections
If you spend any time online in the “death circle” of funeral directors and grief/mourning specialists, you have seen the story of Martin Manley, a sports writer in Kansas who committed suicide on August 15th. Suicides, sadly, are not very unusual items to...
by KimBoo York | Aug 3, 2013 | Grief, Mourning, PSA
I often question the value of this blog. After all, while grief is a permanent state its intensity varies over time and circumstances. I’m not sure, either, what I have to offer is very much by way of comfort. I don’t coat grief with a film of sentiment,...
by KimBoo York | May 1, 2013 | Reflections
I wrote Grieving Futures back in 2010, and threw it up online pretty quickly. It served as a cathartic bleed out of my emotions regarding my experiences with grief, and as tool in helping to reach out to other grievers. It lives up to its dual purposes, I think. But...
by KimBoo York | Mar 12, 2013 | Reflections
The phrase “Let go and let God” has a lot of cultural currency. When people are facing overwhelming trauma, be it grief or drug addiction or a bad day at work, the phrase is pulled out to help people untangled their emotions and let go of what is troubling...
by KimBoo York | Mar 8, 2013 | Podcast
This here podcast is two short chapters, and all together I’m calling it Chapter Waste Disposal. By which title, I’m sure you can tell it’s going to be more rollicking fun from me. Yep....