Podcast – An Interview with Author David Pierce Jr.
In this episode, Giulia Jeary Knap interviews grief support expert and author David Pierce Jr., who is the editor and one of the authors of an insp...
“Living with Grief: 36 Lessons from Life” An Anthology
“Living with Grief: 36 Lessons from Life” tells the stories of over 30 contributing authors who have experienced personal loss through the...
FAR is Run by You, and You, and You….
Since Friends Along the Road is a free open-source social movement, YOU make it work. If you agree in general terms to the FAR Values and Vision state...
The Woman in the Waiting Room
While sitting in the relatively empty waiting room of the clinic this morning, waiting to get my legs worked on by the osteopath, a woman of ab...
Do I really want closure for my grief?
I despise the term, “closure.” Though it flows freely from the lips of TV psychologists, I consider it an ill-conceived and ...
Amputated Fathers
“Please tell me the story of how you got those remarkable replacement legs,” I asked my rider – a tall, powerful man of about my age...
Excerpts from “Gifts to Guide Us Home,” by Elsa Weber
©2013 by Elizabeth A. Weber Note: This column comes to us via my friend Elsa Weber, author of, A Beautiful Mourning, which I have reviewed on this bl...
Types of Grief Supported by Friends Along the Road
Friends Along the Road is an experiment in providing support for those in grief from most every cause. In this regard, it is different from most organ...
What do we mean by “Caring Support”?
Friends Along the Road literature used to say that we provide “nonjudgmental” support for those in grief. We dumped that slogan because it...
Do Men and Women Grieve Differently? Not Always.
By David D. Pierce Jr. Originally published by The Grief Toolbox*, October 24, 2012. Much is made in bereavement circles about the different ways in w...
How to Create Sanctuary Anywhere for Those in Grief
Grief can strike at any time, any place: school, work, church, the grocery, on a plane, a bus, in prison, online – anywhere. Regardless of when ...
How We are Blamed for Not Being Happy
Often repeated in pop media is the slogan, “Only WE are responsible for our own happiness.” This notion is one of the greatest denials of ...
Our 1st FAR Audio Interview!
http://traffic.libsyn.com/futureprimitive/futureprimitive_david-judy-pierce_may-2012.mp3 David and Judy Pierce created “Friends Along the Road” a...
Friends Along the Road: Creating Sanctuary for Those in Grief
Like you’re in a different universe from everyone else: that’s how it can feel after the death of a family member or friend. How can the w...
Review: “A Beautiful Mourning” by Elizabeth Weber
A Beautiful Mourning By Elizabeth A. Weber 2010 iUniverse, Inc. (New York: Bloomington) Click here for sales information. Review by Dave Pierce Elizab...
Shut up and listen.
As an advocate for the bereaved, I cannot speak for them, because each person experiences grief uniquely, but I can speak up for them. More importantl...
New Year 2012: On Happiness
Many people nowadays have a view of happiness that involves, essentially, “letting it all hang out.” Those who are grieving the deaths of ...
September 11 Attacks: First and Foremost About the Families and Friends
The following note expresses my own opinions and not necessarily those of the Friends Along the Road organization. – Dave Pierce Oh Friends alon...
Move on from Grief? You Don’t Have To.
Your grief is your own and no one has the right to say otherwise. No one should ever tell you it is time to move on. The anguish you feel may bum out ...
Grieving is NOT a Process
To hell with “the grieivng process.” Grief does not have to follow any sort of process. “Process” implies a linear continuum, ...
Values and Vision of Friends Along the Road
Free to copy print & distribute. Not for commercial use. Changes prohibited. ©2007 Friends Along the Road Inc. ON GRIEVING 1. Each person’s...
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What to Say – and Not to Say – to Those in Grief [Regular Version]
Note: This is a version of my post, “What to Say to Those in Grief .” -Dave It can be terribly difficult – scary, even – to kn...
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What to Say – and Not to Say – to Those in Grief [Extended Version]
People seem fundamentally predisposed to avoid thinking about death and grief. This capacity for denial is especially true in the U.S. and U.K., where...
Living Among Headstones: Spending the Night Alone at Lilli’s Grave
Picked up a book at the library called, Living Among Headstones: Life in a Country Cemetery, by Shannon Applegate. It’s just my kind of a read. ...