Anderson Funeral Home

06/19/2026

"Grief lasts a lifetime.." -Jamie Thrower Death & Grief Doula

06/17/2026

Wondering how to help a grieving friend? Let them be sad.⁣ Really. ⁣Sadness is a natural response to loss, hardship, and death.

The trick to successful grief support is to lean into your helplessness in the face of your friend’s pain. Your job, honestly, is to feel awkward and stay there anyway.

When someone talks to you about how hard this is, notice your impulse to jump in with advice. Then, DON'T DO IT.

Platitudes & unsolicited advice just tell the grieving person that you're not someone they can talk to about this.

When they say, "This sucks," say, "Yes, it does." It may seem to simple to help, but it's amazing how much acknowledgement helps.

It is an unfathomable relief to have a friend who will sit with you and let you feel exactly how you feel.⁣ ❤️‍🩹

06/16/2026

06/12/2026

Grief has a way of transforming ordinary objects into vessels of memory. Sometimes healing isn’t about letting go—it’s about finding comfort in the small things that help us remember. What have you held onto to remind you of a departed loved one? [image via Option B]

06/10/2026

Suggestion #1: Recognize that no set of steps, tasks, stages, or method could ever tell you how to get over, move on from, let go of, or resolve grief. Certain conceptualizations and grief theories make it seem as though life after the death of a loved one is […]

06/03/2026

At Anderson Funeral Home, our work is rooted in care, respect, and honoring the fullness of a life.

During Pride Month, and every month, that care includes LGBTQ+ people, partners, families, friends, and communities.

Every life deserves to be held with care.

05/25/2026

We pause, we reflect, we extend the utmost gratitude.

05/10/2026

Meeting you where you're at today this Mother's Day.

05/09/2026

Here in the US (and many other countries around the world), Mother's Day is upon us. We're thinking of all the people for whom this weekend is particularly difficult.

The second Sunday in May (and all of the advertising & social media activity around it) seriously sucks for so many people, in more ways than I can list.

So many wounds in the world. So many ways to be wounded. My loves, whether or not the reason(s) you are hurting are listed in this post, please take good care of yourselves.

I wish these made-up holidays didn't come with so much extra grief. There is plenty to go around without these greeting card dates.

For now, please know that however this Mother's Day affects you, we're all here in this together, holding onto each other, holding each other up.

Whatever your loss — mother-related or no — I hope this weekend gifts you with something that lets you feel held, if only for a moment.

How about you? Is this Mother's Day thing hard for you, or is it a non-issue? If it's not a sore point for you, how does the mother-related pain of others affect you? Let us know in the comments.

NOTE: This community is a NO GRIEF-SHAMING ZONE. It's okay if you do not identify with or understand why something was included on this graphic. But that does NOT give you license to question it or complain about it in the comments. Please keep your opinions about other peoples' losses and grief to yourself.