Posted on by James Baldiga

Funeral Home Playlists

We are pleased to offer Grief is Love Lost as a self-directed resource in our bereavement program.

GRIEF IS LOVE LOST: Audio sessions for coping with grief.

Grief isn’t curable. But over time and with productive attention to our grief, we learn to manage it, and acquire the strength, vigilance and courage to embrace a goal of hope and happiness.

Listen now to this first 2 minute session.

There are more than 60 sessions available below.

Click the links below to see the available sessions.

Grief is Love Lost
When we love someone or something, their loss can feel devastating.

How we understand and manage our grief will determine how successfully we'll be able to move on with our lives.


Grief's 5 Factors
Some deaths will hit us much harder than others.

Dealing with a sudden or unexpected death may be much more challenging than, for example, losing someone to old age.


Working Through Grief
As we proactively move forward on our grief journey, we're able to see more and more rays of light peek through our haze of sorrow. Help is available if we're willing to find it and use it.

Contemporary changes in the perception of death
How we view death and deal with it has changed dramatically in modern society.

This section deals with examples of how the media treatment and the "industrialization" of death have taken away the intimacy and acceptance of losing a loved one.


Mind management in the death process
Dying is a process and death is a result of that process.

This section explains why the distinction is important and helps us to understand and manage our grief.


When a child dies
We expect our children to accompany us into old age. Losing a child is an overwhelming affront to the natural order of things.

This section addresses the many ways parents are challenged to sustain the strength of both their own marriage as well as their family's well-being.


Suicide's ultimate message
The suicide of a loved one is a complicated gut punch that leaves its survivors uniquely devastated.

This section defines the psychology behind suicide and the inevitable obstacles survivors must overcome, such as guilt and anger.


Productive grief behaviors and responses
The unalterable truth is that our loved one is not coming back.

Therefore, grief, while critically important, cannot be allowed to rule the rest of your life. How we move on; how long it takes and how we grow is up to us. This section is designed to put it all in perspective.


Is my grief response normal?
We will experience a fairly predictable series of responses as we grieve the loss of a loved one.

This section helps us recognize that what we're feeling is normal and to understand why these factors or stages are important to our recovery.


Abnormal grief responses.
We all grieve when we lose someone we love. This section alerts us on how to avoid falling into grief patterns that can harm us rather than help us heal.


Unproductive Grieving Patterns
As we settle into coping and managing our grief, we need to be aware of avoidance behaviors that can misdirect us from successful grief.

In this section, you'll be able to identify whether you may have veered off course.


Growth Through Grief
When we're willing to accept the challenge of working through grief and its pain, we will invite new understandings and feelings of fulfillment in our lives.

Covid-19 Grief Resources
The Covid-19 Pandemic has been grief-inducing world-wide and may continue to cause grief for years to come.
Although we’ve generally associated grief with the loss of a loved one, the pandemic reveals many of the same personal and universal challenges to us both individually and collectively.

Hospice & Children
Understanding the roles and sensitivities of children throughout the Hospice experience.