Thank you to all who participated in our "A Mourning Walk"

“A Mourning Walk” - why this? On September 21st it will be the the 14th Anniversary  of my sister Gail’s husband’s death. He went up to go to bed and he died of a  pulmonary embolism. Well, we all knows how my husband and the rest of the  Founding Board’s husbands died and while tragic, our loss is no more profound than  my sister’s or any of yours, but every year on Sept. 11th, everyone remembers ours.  Well everyone’s loved ones deserve to be remembered like that so we decided to  provide a way for that to happen and this is it!! “A Mourning Walk” 

We deserve to have a time and a place to remember and to say our loved ones names  every year!! 

When people talk about our loved one, when we hear their names, they are reminding  us that they lived!! We have a sacred relationship with those we love, the fact that they  died does not sever the relationship it just changes it. It makes it different. But when  did the definition of different mean worse, it doesn’t, it just mean different. 

We have a responsibility to those who we have loved and lost, a responsibility to  remember them and honor them and we also have a responsibility to ourselves to  notice the great gifts and blessings that we have experienced since. Let yourself  

notice them, give yourself permission to experience the joy as well as the sorrow. Let  yourself soak in the love and support that surrounds us today and give yourself  permission to live!! 

We encourage you to say their names as many times as you would like today and  everyday. 

and I will leave you with this… 

Believe in life, not loss. When your heart is struggling, hurting, questioning, its  not so easy.Place your trust in the process. Surrender to the journey. Have faith  in yourself that you can do this. Repeat to yourself, hope over loss til your heart  understands and your brain follows through.