The Magazine for Madison Area Women
Marcia Anderson calls her entry into the military accidental. In 1977, she was a student at Creighton University and needed a science credit when she came across the registration table for military science and the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Kerry McAllen learned the importance of being self-reliant and persistent during her time serving with the U.S. Army, the Wisconsin National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserves.
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.