All our workshops are listed in detail in our MotherHenna Blog, and include:
September - please note that our Sept 4th Play Day has been canceled. But we look forward to seeing you in Arizona at the end of the month, Sept 25 through 28th at the MISS Foundation Conference!
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Note From Editor
Crisp smell of Fall is in the air, the days are already growing shorter. As we move into the harvest, then Day of the Dead, then winter holidays, please know you are not alone!
If we can be of service to you in any way, please see the Contact page -- put "Kota Loss Journal" in the subject line of any email you send -- and be in touch with us via email or phone. We will do the very best we can to help. And if you have a need that feels more immediate than we can serve, please call for help:
As always be gentle with yourself. Give yourself lots of time. Know you are not alone. Nuture your health and self-care.
And many miracles to you,
k-
PSA video and upcoming MISS Foundation Conference
Many of you know that Hawk and I also work as HOPE Mentors for the MISS Foundation. Hawk and I will be at the 2008 International MISS Foundation Conference and Parental Bereavement Retreat in Arizona in this month (Sept 25-28). We hope to see old friends and, though I will be very sorry to see new faces in need there, we hope to meet you in person if we haven't previously had the chance. If you've never been to a MISS Conference before, I highly recommend it. It is an amazing crucible of grief and healing. You can read about my experiences at previous conference by clicking here! If you are interested in learning more about MISS, check out this new video about their work:
*Looking for support, resource, education about dealing with life after the death of a child? Check out the Bereavement Conferences listings for new dates and organization offerings... The MISS 2008 Conference is coming right up!
*We've made new updates to our Dictionary of Loss. This online dictionary keeps growing, and we'd like to include new definitions from you, so please send in your ideas. Eventually we will look at possibilities for bringing it into print, too!
*Our "Grief: Finding Our Way" workshop is now available for small groups. If you want to bring us in-person or have us facilitate a small eGroup on your Forum boards or our group site, plese be in touch!!
In the meantime, our Workbooks are now available via Lulu.com also!! And you can get the workbook "Grief: Finding Our Way" as a stand-alone, print item! This a great tool for experimenting on your own with ideas for getting through the everyday, the holidaze, and more.
Speaking of the store! The introduction page to the Store has been revised in the hope that it is more straight-forward in helping viewers navigate the items available. All items available from us directly are offered via PayPal. These cannot be combined with items from outside vendors like:
Many of you ask us how you might help or contribute to our efforts here at KotaPress. Any purchase you make with us directly in our Store always helps. And we have a few other ways, you might try, too:
If you shop online anyway -- especially if you are doing your holiday shopping online -- try doing it thru the portal at iGive.com/KotaPress which gives a percent of all shopping sales back to us. You can get to most online retails thru iGive like Amazon, VistaPrint, Drugstore, MotherNature, OneStepAhead, Danskin, Just My Size, Coldwater Creek, Land's End, Eddie Bauer, and many more!
Or if you want a bit more flair, check out our Cafe Press store for HennaHealing and get one of Kara's original designs on a sweatshirt, tiled box, messanger bag, pillow, or any number of other items!
Or check out Mother Henna's new Etsy shop! These are artworks from Kara's 1,000 Faces of Mother Henna project -- available at MotherHenna.Etsy.com -- including cards, postcards, charm paintings, henna'd canvases and more...
Questions & Contributions
As always, if you have questions, just be in touch with us. If you want information about how to contribute to the site, zine, memorials, or dictionary, click here to see the Submission Guidelines section!
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Post Script
Byron Katie Addresses Grief After Death of a Child...
If you've read any of my eNews or zine writings, you know that I find Byron Katie's "The Work" to be an amazing tool for meeting people exactly where they are in the moment! In an eNews from "The Work" there was a link to a YouTube video of Katie working with a man who thinks he's frustrated because his sister won't get over her daughter's death. Wow. How many of us have heard that from friends or family? How many of us have had that thought about ourselves, wondering if the grieving ever ends? Katie leads this gentleman through "The Work" so that he comes to his own experiential epiphany about his neice's death. It's an epiphany I came to about my own son, a conjunction where love is more than the grief, an epiphany that brought me to the idea for "A Different Kind of Parenting" back in 1999. Seeing Byron and this uncle work it through so quickly is very powerful! Check it out at:
