“What-if” Planning Blog
Mental, Emotional, & Spiritual Preparation for Your People
This week our tip focuses on what may be the hardest element of end-of-life planning, the mental/emotional/spiritual preparation of your people.
Make this the Year to Act
Now that we’re into 2023, it’s appropriate to look forward to the year ahead. Our goal at Prepare Your Affairs is help you attain the peace of mind that comes with getting your end-of-life affairs in order. In this week’s tip, we offer some suggestions about how to go about accomplishing this task.
Grief Support Groups
If you know anything about our journey following the death of Dave and Kris and our struggle to move forward in life afterwards, you know that our widow and widower grief support group played an important role. In this week’s blog, we discuss how and why this helped us and where those in mourning might be able to find a similar type of group for them.
Is Preparing Emotionally and Mentally Possible?
No matter how prepared a family may be for the death of a loved one, grief will come, and it will manifest itself in different ways for different people. It’s hard to predict how one will grieve because so much of it will depend on your relationship to the deceased, the circumstances of their death, and even your own life situation at the moment your loved one dies. So that begs the question, how can a person prepare emotionally and mentally for the death of another?
Gratitude through Letters
As we approach Thanksgiving, we encourage you to consider the important people in your life and take time to write them a letter or note of appreciation and gratitude. It doesn’t have to be long and sappy. Sometimes short and simple is enough.
How and Why We Grieve Differently
Grief is a complex word, which makes it the perfect description of the emotions we face when a loved one dies. Most of us can articulate a definition, but if you closely observe ten different people who are grieving, you’ll discover ten different types of behaviors, emotions, and attitudes. In this week’s tip, we’ll discuss how and why we grieve so differently.
Holiday and Birthday Traditions
Holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, and other special traditions are the worst for anyone who is grieving. These are painful reminders that a loved one isn’t around to help make the occasion special. In this week’s tip we’ll discuss what we’ve learned about preparing for and honoring these events after our spouses passed.