It can be hard to believe how sad and lonely you can feel when your pet dies. To animal lovers, a pet is often treated like a member of the family. They ride in your car, sleep on your bed, they know the household routine, they recognise your voice – they know you and you […]
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Grieving on Valentine’s Day
Just as you make it through the grief of the summer holiday season, Valentine’s Day comes along to stir it all up again. Whether it is the first Valentine’s Day after death of your spouse or partner, or decades have passed, it is only natural that you would miss the special person in your life. […]
Contacting Your Grieving Friends At Christmas
The Christmas Season can be a difficult time when you’re grieving. How to prepare for the lead up and how to spend Christmas Day can be a dilemma – so many people to please and so many things have probably changed since last year. Friends too will want to be helpful and sensitive – but […]
Introducing Reterniti Stones
Hold Your Loved One Close – After they’ve gone Reterniti is a New Zealand innovation solving the age-old question of what to do with one’s ashes after cremation. Reterniti convert your loved one’s ashes into a tasteful, discrete stone. A Reterniti Stone is tactile and is intended to be held close unlike an urn or […]
Baby Loss Awareness Week 9th – 15th October 2022
According to SANDS New Zealand each year over 600 babies die between 20 weeks gestation and 12 months of age. The death of a child is a devastating event. It is consistent throughout the literature on grief work, that the death of a child is recognised as the most severe, enduring and debilitating form of […]
Missing you this father’s day
Father’s Day can be a difficult day for someone whose dad has passed away. It may be hard to express just how much you miss him and how much you treasure your memories of the wonderful times you spent together. WHEN YOUR FATHER DIES YOU CAN BE SWAMPED BY ALL SORTS OF MIXED EMOTIONS You’ve […]
How to create a Eulogy
A eulogy is the tribute which is given to honour someone’s life. Usually a family member or close friend is asked to do this and there may be more than one tribute in order to cover different aspects of a person’s life. Eulogies may cover everything from early children, school days, career, family life – […]
Do you have a ‘Digital Will’ or ‘Digital Executor’?
A digital Will is not a legal document like an official Will, but it is a list of all your digital assets stored online. Your Digital Executor doesn’t have to be the same person that is an Executor to your actual Will, but it would need to be someone that you can trust so that […]
When Men Grieve
A man’s grief is just as deep, just as acute, just as real and difficult as anyone’s. The expression of that grief may differ from man to man, or from a mans to that of a woman. The uniqueness of our grief stems as much from our individual personalities as it does from our relationship […]
How Our Thoughts Govern How We Feel
We have between 5,000 and 60,000 thoughts every day. Left unguarded, thoughts can create a myriad of mental, emotional and physical conditions. Left unguarded, our thoughts can make it very difficult to move forward in life, especially after experiencing a significant loss. It is therefore beneficial to understand how thoughts work, how thoughts impact on […]
Lest we Forget
Anzac Day Anzac Day is observed on 25 April. It commemorates New Zealanders killed in war and honours returned and serving servicemen and women. The date marks the anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand soldiers – the Anzacs – on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. The aim was to capture the Dardanelles and […]
In the Spotlight – Anna Loach – Manager / Funeral Director – Wife, Mother, Nanna
Whilst much of her time is dedicated to managing Simplicity Funeral Nelson and Richmond, there is another side to Anna Loach and here we find out a little more: How long have you lived in Nelson? My husband and I, together with our two boys arrived in Nelson in October 2002. Whilst it was very […]