I’ve had conflicting thoughts throughout my life about what happens when we die. After my brother, LB, died, a friend told me about a recent experience she had with a medium. Since then, I’ve had two readings from different mediums; but really, I’ve had...
Thanks to COPE Facilitator Janet Zimmerman, LCSW-R for this month’s Healing Tip Sometimes you just don’t feel like getting out of bed. You want to stay in your pajamas and just pull the sheets over your head. You want to hide. That’s understandable...
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 reflect the millions of...
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 Adam on a call a few...
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. Prior to the pandemic, just over 100 of you came regularly,...
Join us for COPE Walk 2020! Each year we walk to honor our children, siblings and loved ones who have passed and to support COPE families and the grieving community. However, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, COPE wants to ensure the safety and health of our...
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 to go back to normal battling with the fear that persists...
The term compounded grief is exactly that, when all of our grief from over a lifetime gets lumped together, and then causes us to downward spiral over one tragic event. Every single person has their own way to deal with grieving and death, but it is important to help...
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”, or “peace”, or even ,”new recipes”. Even a bunch on how to...
