It's All About the Story: Personal Grief Stories
Your Grief Story is important. Share it with others. Encourage one another. Each of our episodes explore a specific type of loss that is unique and important. Guests openly share their personal stories.
It's All About the Story: Personal Grief Stories
Writing Poetry – A Griever’s Friend
Writing Poetry – A Griever’s Friend
Seven years into Mike Berhardt’s marriage, his wife died.
Writing poetry became a means to express his deep loss on paper.
Reaching out to other grievers, Mike found that, like himself, many others also expressed their experience through poetry. He compiled his first book of poems, Voices of the Grieving Heart.
Thirty years later, during COVID, he gathered more poems and re-contacted the original contributors to hear about their grief journeys 30 years later. These reflections resulted in a second addition of his book.
Hear Mike’s story, his poems, the poems of other contributors and Mike’s thoughts on the sixth stage of grief, Finding Meaning.