Creating Connection Amid Grief
byA community resource for death and grief care, Meghan Allynn Johnson formed the Madison Death Collective with artist and grief worker Taylor Franklin.
A community resource for death and grief care, Meghan Allynn Johnson formed the Madison Death Collective with artist and grief worker Taylor Franklin.
Grief changes us — but it can also reveal new depths of connection, community, compassion and healing.
The nonprofit Sòlas Natural Burial Preserve between Middleton and Waunakee, certified by the Green Burial Council, offers families the chance to purchase a plot on its 20-acre grounds and bury their loved one in an ecologically friendly way.
We experience body grief when we have to incorporate complex changes related to our internalized self-image.
While every person’s grief journey is unique, here are five key practices that have kept me tethered to life, love and purpose.
A death doula is trained to guide people of all ages through the emotional, spiritual, physical and logistical transitions at the end of life.
Grief doesn’t always arrive with funerals and flowers. More often, it lives in life’s transitions, when a version of the future we imagined dissolves into something unrecognizable.
Good Mourning offers celebrations of life, memorials and living funerals tailored to the individual’s or family members’ wishes.
Madison’s Latina and Hispanic leaders are making their mark.
From hospitals to housing to high-speed tracks, these women are driving change across Madison — and beyond.
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