by JHFHBrightSighted | Oct 2, 2024 | Blog, News, Podcast
What does it take to guide families through their most painful moments? In this episode of A Place of Yes, Brittany DeMarco-Furman, a fourth-generation funeral director, shares the emotional highs and lows of working with grief daily. She reveals how creating...
by Heather Straughter | Apr 22, 2024 | Blog, Letters to Jakey
Dear Jakey, As with so many of my letters to you, this has been written in my head many times over. I have been grappling with so many different versions and struggling to find the right words for so long. And sometimes I feel like through the podcast I have been...
by Heather Straughter | Feb 2, 2024 | Blog, Letters to Jakey
Dear Jakey, The last few weeks, or maybe month, I have been inundated with thoughts, conversations, and different ideas about grief. I have talked more about you in the last month, and to more people, than I have in the previous few years. It is not that I didn’t talk...
by Heather Straughter | Dec 30, 2023 | Blog, Letters to Jakey, Podcast
Dear Jakey, After a 7 year hiatus, I returned to writing to you earlier this month. It was done away from this blog and really gave me a chance to think about all the things that these letters meant to me and why I stopped writing. It was like dipping your toe in the...
by Heather Straughter | Dec 8, 2023 | Blog, Letters to Jakey
Dear Jakey, The last letter I wrote you was 12.2.16. Hard to believe. I don’t know why I stopped other than I think it hurt too much. It went from being my way of connecting with you to a constant reminder that you were gone. I kept telling myself I would restart but...
