A nonprofit grief and healing organization dedicated to helping parents and families living with the loss of a child
Happy New Year! Doesn’t it seem odd to say that? Perhaps the best we can say about 2021 is that is not 2020. With the rest of humanity, we, the bereaved families of COPE, are starting 2021 in the midst …
We have just had our first major family holiday since the pandemic slammed into our country and reshaped so much of our lives. Our lives are bracketed by the daily graphing of infection, rising hospitalization rates, and death counts that …
Adam Rabinovitch, our executive director, has joined with a national grief advocacy group called Evermore. Adam has had some conversations with them as they develop a national platform for the needs of the bereaved. I had the pleasure of joining …
Dear COPE Families, It’s me, Sandy Wolkoff, COPE’s board president. You get a lot of emails from me and the staff. And yes, I know that most of you don’t open these emails but I hope this time is different. …
It will be September when you read this column, but it will be unlike any previous September in my lifetime. You are living those changes just as I am. So many of us are frustrated, and angry, with our desire …
I try to read less news, watch less news, and worry less about the news I do see. I am not succeeding but I have, however, noticed a slight uptick in articles that have words like “hope”, or “better news”, …
It is three months into this new covid-19 world. Is it still possible to be optimistic? A pandemic of biblical proportions? An economic crisis that harkens back to the Great Depression 90 years ago? A political crisis that leaves my …
I was thinking about how much I seem to be “taking” these last two months—nearby friends shop for me, neighbors walk with me, albeit masked and 6-8 feet away, my kids check up on me, my oldest friends call a …
It has been crazy I have been crazy My body has been making me nuts The news has landed in my belly and made me sick Worry has become the prison in which I am kept Panic is the salt …
Grief is grief. We all mourn our losses. How we mourn, however, is shaped by many factors. Religious and cultural practices shape our beliefs and rituals around loss, often giving mourners signposts when we feel so lost. Our own temperament …