After the loss of a loved one, the holiday season can be touched with bittersweet sadness. How do you handle the various celebrations and events? How do you include the person you have lost in your celebration? At Oliver’s, we have many programs to support grieving families during the Christmas season. Learn tips and concrete […]
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Are you looking for help navigating grief? Do you work with people who are grieving? Would you like some guidance in organizing your estate? In October, Oliver’s Funeral Home is offering several different free seminars to our community to address these topics. Grief & Loss Seminar For The Grieving With Dr. Bill Webster Floods
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Are the holidays making you cringe this year? It is ok not to be ok during the holidays. It is ok not to want to celebrate all the festivities of this season. The meaning of this season is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ our Savior but have you truly looked at the story
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After the loss of a loved one, the holiday season can be touched with bittersweet sadness. How do you handle the various celebrations and events? How do you include the person you have lost in your celebration? At Oliver’s, we have many programs to support grieving families during the Christmas season. Learn tips and concrete
How Do You Get Through The Holidays When You’re Grieving? Read More »
It is that time of year again! That time of year when everyone starts getting happy, looking forward to the twinkling lights, the Holiday Specials on every channel of the television, and festive music on the radio. Children start dreaming of special days ahead filled with laughter and concerts and parents are running from one
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Grief. No one wants to feel it. No one seems to want to talk about it, but it is something we all go through in our lives. When we do, we may struggle to know how to get through it and if we are going to be okay. On October 25th, Oliver’s Funeral Home is
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September is Suicide Prevention Month. I always dread this month. I never feel adequate to talk about suicide and grieving. I believe a lot of you reading this news article may have felt like this as well. The topic of suicide has such a stigma attached to it in our culture that we very rarely
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When we lose someone, we experience grief. Sometimes, grief progresses in a healthy, normal way. Other times it can be a very lonely process that isolates us in our pain, anger, and denial. If you are stuck in these intense emotions for a long time, you may need help navigating your grief. A grief counselor
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Grief can be lonely and isolating and is often stuffed down, numbed out, or walled off. This is accepted as normal in our North American Culture. We get 3 to 5 days off work, have a funeral to say our goodbyes and go back to work the next week like it never happened. We have
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July is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) month. Did you know that anyone can suffer from a traumatic incident? PTSD is most often associated with soldiers or people who have suffered a natural disaster, but it is more common than we think. Anyone at any time can suffer from a trauma that may cause significant
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Most men are silent grievers. They hold their emotions very close to their hearts and they avoid anything or anyone that makes them reflect on what they have lost. It costs too much to connect with their pain. After all, we hold a strong myth in our Western culture that men can’t cry, or they
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How many of you had the chance to say goodbye to your loved ones during covid? Not many of us were allowed to attend a service and the services themselves were small. They lacked the community and relational bonds that we so desperately need when our loved ones pass on. Many of us lack closure
Funeral Services and Grief: How they help and what happens when you don’t have one. Read More »
