Here is an invitation to consider for yourself and share with others who know that when death comes our loving relationships continue.
My name is Linda Hill. I am a retired psychologist, author of “Together Still: Love Beyond Death” and facilitator of online
“Continuing Loving Bonds Story Sharing Circles.” If you “just know” that your loving relationship with your beloved life-partner, friend, child, parent or another loved one continues beyond death, then these circles may be what you are looking for.
Continuing Loving Bonds Story Sharing Circles are small online groups of 6 to 10 people from diverse backgrounds who come together to explore a truth that Professor Schwartz made famous in the book and movie Tuesdays With Morrie when he said, “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” Click here for more information and to register for current and upcoming story sharing circles.
By sharing our stories, we are learning with each other and from each other about how to cultivate and continue unconditional love. We support each other to take our own steps and develop our own practices for transforming the fear, devastation and grief that goes hand in hand with death into heroic journeys of re-orbiting around reciprocal love.
The first week focuses on sharing our love stories. During the weeks to follow we explore topics such as: Resilience, Spiritual practices, Healing practices, Traditions, rituals and memorials, Anniversaries and remembering, Shared death experiences, After-death-communication, Signs/Coincidences/Synchronicities, Multi-sensory listening, Following leadings, Carrying out legacies, Love as spiritual gravity.
You are welcome to come once, occasionally or to all ten sessions. As this is my volunteer service to the field of Continuing Bonds research and education, there is no cost. But space is limited and pre-registration is required. Click here for more information and to register.
I Am Not Alone. Bill Is With Me Always
by Donna Sassaman
One can prepare intellectually for the death of a loved one but cannot possibly prepare for the emotional devastation. My husband – my best friend and love of my life – died 25 months ago. My world was turned upside-down. For months I lived in a fog of grief and uncertainty.
When Linda invited me to join her Continuing Loving Bonds Sharing Circles, I said “Yes.” I am so glad that I did. The Sharing Circles have been a lifeline, restoring me to myself and opening me to a new, yet continuing, relationship with the beautiful spirit who is my husband. I know that I am not alone; Bill is with me always. While I continue to miss his personality and physical presence, and always will, I am no longer devastated, knowing that we are still connected by love.
Linda has made the Sharing Circles so available through online morning or afternoon sessions, that anyone who is drawn to joining can do so. Linda encourages us to participate fully, and as a result, we each feel safe to share our stories as gifts to the rest of the group.
The topics of the Sharing Circles are based on the chapters of her beautifully written and insightful memoir as well as recent research. Linda’s stories and research provide a framework for the safe and mutually supportive sharing of our own stories of continuing our loving bonds with our loved ones on the Other Side.
Click here for more information and to register for Continuing Loving Bonds Story Sharing Circles.
When someone we love dies, the outcome of our deep love is deep grief. We can gradually transform our grief back into the love it has always been through a well researched set of tangible and spiritual practices called Continuing Bonds (that I call Continuing Loving Bonds)
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