Welcome board members!
COPE is thrilled to welcome two new board members, Dr. Kristin Gill and Sonia Mukhi. Learn more about them and new board member...
Healing Tip – December 2023
The holidays can be a wonderful time of year for many as people begin to accessorize their homes with festive decorations for the season. For a...
Co-Presidents’ Message – November 2023
Over here, we lost some of them. But over there, they lost all of us. That's a quote from the final scene of, perhaps, my all-time favorite TV...
Healing Tip – November 2023
Grief as an Origin Story As I’ve been preparing my kids for Halloween and enjoying all the fantastical costumes, superheroes, and popular toys of...
Co-President’s Message – October 2023
Greetings – As I write to you from a faraway location where I snuck away from a work conference for a few hours to go catch some incredible live...
Healing Tip – October 2023
Aspects of grief can feel jarring and destabilizing. As grievers experience the death, they must work through secondary losses like the absence...
Let us be a Lifeline
Grief can be overwhelming and powerful. It can keep you isolated and alone. It can have devastating consequences. It can shatter the world as you...
Parents’ Columns – September 2023
Andrew Michael Levinson 9/16/87 - 9/17/15 For Our Andrew - Life was never as expected. We couldn’t have imagined Muscular Dystrophy would be part...
My Grief Journey
My Grief Journey My son died in 2006. It is inconceivable to me that he died & how many years it is. I could not grasp how my heart could be...
Co-Presidents’ Message – August 2023
In the first year after my brother passed, I had a number of dreams in which he appeared and they always left me feeling helpless. I talked...
Healing Tip – August 2023
Many grievers feel unsupported as their grief continues beyond expectations of mourning time. There are messages in society that display support...
Co-President’s Message – July 2023
The great American author Ernest Hemingway once wrote “no one you love is every truly lost”. Since my daughter Samantha Rose passed...
How to Find a Grief Organization
Grief organizations play a vital role in offering compassion, counseling, and a sense of community to individuals and families going through the grieving process.
Healing Tip – July 2023
“Grief, I say, come in. Sit down. I have tea. There is honey. This will take as long as it takes.” - This Hallowed Wilderness One of the...
Suggested Reading – Juneteenth
This past month we highlighted Juneteenth and the overlap between generational trauma, grief, and the history of slavery and racism in America....
Parent Column – July 2023
Maybe with a few words I could make sense of what happened fifteen years ago Maybe in a three hundred page book I could make sense of what...
Healing Tip – June 2023
The weather is increasingly warmer and many turn their minds towards summer plans. It can be a difficult season as individuals and families...