The new year has come! During this time, many people often think of new year’s resolutions they have and reflect on aspects of what they may want to change, improve, or begin. Perhaps this is a time of reflection upon the last year and how it felt for you, for a...
Happy Heavenly Birthday Michelle Missing & Loving you, Mom The holidays come with added stress and sadness for anyone grieving a loved one which is why COPE is offering this special program for you. At Lifetime Syosset on December 16 @ 2:00 (details below) ~ part...
COPE is thrilled to welcome two new board members, Dr. Kristin Gill and Sonia Mukhi. Learn more about them and new board member opportunities below. Dr. Kristin Gill is a Psychiatrist, Physician Executive expert, and thought leader in Women’s Mental...
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 person who is grieving perhaps this is a more difficult time. Grief is bad enough, but it can be magnified when the holiday...
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 show. I have a tendency to seek out extremely emotional TV shows and movies. If it doesn’t involve loss of some...
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 my own childhood, it has reminded me of a topic I’ve been mulling over in my head for months. It started over the summer...
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 solo/acoustic music, I’m reminded of the awesome power, pain, rejuvenation, and healing qualities that music can have,...
Aspects of grief can feel jarring and destabilizing. As grievers experience the death, they must work through secondary losses like the absence of their favorite person to share a film, a dinner partner or expert on a topic. Changes do not only impact...
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 know it. Nearly 2.6 million people die in the United States annually, leaving an average of nine grieving people behind....
