It is a powerful reality to lose a parent. Many factors affect your grief process. Had your parent been slowly declining? Was it an unexpected death? Had there been a role reversal of you becoming the parent and your parent becoming the child? What was your relationship like with that…

Throughout Kindvember, Ohio's Hospice has offered different ways to be kind. In week four, we encourage you to act in kindness.  Each year during National Hospice and Palliative Care Month in November, we celebrate Kindvember®. Kindvember is an Ohio’s Hospice initiative that honors the importance of kindness in our mission. …

Gratitude and grief in the same sentence doesn’t seem to make sense. The profound pain experienced when a loved one dies doesn’t seem to leave room for feeling gratitude. Suggestions by others that we “count our blessings” may be met with a sense of irritation and an inner declaration of,…