Hello everyone;

I wish to extend a warm welcome to you all, whether you are recently bereaved, or your loss occurred some time ago.

I also welcome those of you who join us here as caregivers, professional and otherwise; I thank you for your care and concern for those who are grieving, and for your interest in learning more about the mourning process.

My name is Corry Roach; I’ve been a bereaved parent for 25 years. Also, I’ve been a part of the nursing profession for more than thirty five years. The experience of my daughter Lindsay’s life and death, and my healing journey back from that event had such a profound impact on me that it did not only affect me personally, but it changed the direction of my professional career altogether!

I have learned so much from that experience of healing and mourning my beloved baby’s death, and it is this learning I wish to share with you, with the intention that we can all heal and grow together, and learn from one another’s experiences as grieving people.

I have yet to meet someone whose life has not been touched by grief. They may not have lost a loved one through death, but grief has visited them in some manner, I’m sure. It is my intention, with this website, to have created a sanctuary or refuge where the issues of grief and its resolution can be dealt with, learned from and grown through, so that we who desire to evolve as a result of these painful experiences might heal physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually.

Grief is such an all encompassing experience; it touches every aspect of our lives; at times with such subtlety that we aren’t even aware of it…

It has also been my observation over the last many years in practise, that death, dying and grief is not something we discuss with relative ease in our western culture. I hope to address that in some manner through the creation of this website and all that it offers as healing agents. It is my intention to make it a safe place without fear or discrimination for anyone, regardless of loss, belief systems or lack of them.

It is my hope we will share our common desire for grief resolution, regardless of how diverse the communities are that we come from. Our common goal is to grow and heal into love and meaning of life again.It is my sincere desire to bring hope, healing and renewed life enhancement to all who desire to find meaning in their mourning. If you are such a person, I encourage you to join us and participate as you feel moved to do so.

My background of work was mostly done with the late Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross, a psychiatrist who pioneered a great deal of work around death, dying and grief. Her book, On Death and Dying, was an international bestseller, and I found her last book On Grief and Grieving, published a month before she died, a masterpiece on the subject.

If you’re looking for it, she co-wrote it with David Kessler.

I spent nearly a decade working with the late Dr Gregg Furth, a Jungian analyst who wrote a book called The Secret World of Drawings.

Through my personal healing work with them, I changed the focus of my career into a pioneered practise of therapy in mental health nursing.

I recently also published a book entitled By Grace of Mourning, which is mostly about that part of my life’s journey shortly after my baby’s death. What started out as a few poems for my daughter as a healing agent for my grief, became this book of love I wrote for Lindsay.

This is my heart’s work, and is a legacy to her memory.

Warm hugs and blessings,
Corry