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February 22, 2015
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2015 – Live Your Best Life Luncheon

Welcome to Our 2015 Live Your Best Life Luncheon There? Great! Enjoy the memories and share the link with others. Not there? No problem! Take a walk down memory lane and feel like you were there! Susan Whitmore (Founder & President) & Wendi Knox (Featured Speaker) What a beautiful day for a fundraising event. But of course, griefHaven events are so much more…they are days filled with love, compassion, seeing old friends, meeting new ones, and a place where people are enveloped in love. This event was just that. We don’t need to go into details, for it is true that a picture speaks a thousand words. So sit back and enjoy spending this time with us—either again or for the first time. Thank you to all 200 of you who showered the people with love and shared your generosity with griefHaven so that another year of helping those who […]
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October 8, 2013
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2013 griefHaven Annual Fundraising Luncheon

griefHaven Annual Fundraising Luncheon Luxe Hotel – Los Angeles, California October 8, 2013 2013 Friends of griefHaven “Live Your Best Life Luncheon.” It was truly beautiful, and that room was filled with so much love it was palpable. There were 180 people in attendance. The Friends of griefHaven Council members (meet them all on our website) worked for months and months to make this event flawless. Our former Mayor, Richard Riordan, introduced Susan in such a lovely way. Then several families stood up and shared how griefHaven has helped them on their journeys. Michael Davis sang a beautiful song he wrote entitled “I Will Friend You,” and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. But then…ta dah!!! Along came John Gray, best-selling author and sought-after speaker (ever heard of “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus?”) , and he spoke and had us all in stitches!
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June 9, 2020
Older Adults Remember Better

Why Some Older Adults Remember Better Than the Others

Even among healthy people, a faltering memory is often an expected part of aging -- but it's not inevitable. "Some individuals exhibit remarkable maintenance of memory function throughout late adulthood, whereas others experience significant memory decline. Studying these differences across individuals is critical for understanding the complexities of brain aging, including how to promote resilience and longevity," said Alexandra Trelle, a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University. Building on studies that have focused on young populations, Trelle and colleagues are investigating memory recall in healthy, older adults
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May 25, 2020
When My Dog Died

When My Dog Died

No one ever tells you that begging for a dog as an 11-year-old could affect you deeply as an adult. They just make you promise to clean up after the animal. But when Rainbow was 10, my parents moved abroad, and she came to live with me in New York. At first, she couldn’t figure out how to pee on concrete; she cried a lot, so I cried a lot. Eventually we learned how to communicate, even as she lost her vision, her hearing, her continence.
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March 29, 2021
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Loneliness and Life Connected to Healthy Gut

The evolving science of wisdom rests on the idea that wisdom's defined traits correspond to distinct regions of the brain, and that greater wisdom translates into greater happiness and life satisfaction while being less wise results in opposite, negative consequences. Scientists have found in multiple studies that persons deemed to be wiser are less prone to feel lonely while those who are lonelier also tend to be less wise.
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October 19, 2020
the pain of death

The pain of death

The pain of death is not with those who have passed on.
It lives in the hearts of those who remain behind.

An unbearable ache that grows with each empty day.
Days without our children; comforting them, holding them, drying their tears and sharing their laughter.

Our children have passed into a place of calmness, comfort and peace
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