A new year has arrived.  For many, this brings pressure to set goals or make “resolutions.”  For others, it invites reflection.  In numerology, 2025 marked the completion of a nine-year cycle - a time when we shed old identities and completed unfinished business. Read more about this here .   And if you didn’t do all that in 2025?  That’s okay.  Much of this work happens quietly, without our awareness.    As I look back over the past nine years—since 2016—I’m struck by how mu

Meg Ferris caught up with a counselor and owner of the New Orleans Grief Center Allison Durant to get some tips on how to cope this holiday season. Author: Kenny Kuhn / WWL Louisiana Published: 8:25 AM CST December 28, 2025 Updated: 8:37 AM CST December 28, 2025 NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans counselor says the holiday season can be especially difficult for people grieving a loved one. The holiday season can be especially challenging for people grieving the loss, as WWLTV’s M

A New Orleans Grief Center counselor says the holiday season can be especially difficult for people grieving a loved one. Author: Kenny Kuhn / WWL Louisiana Published: 8:25 AM CST December 28, 2025 Updated: 8:37 AM CST December 28, 2025 NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans counselor says the holiday season can be especially difficult for people grieving a loved one. The holiday season can be especially challenging for people grieving the loss, as WWLTV’s Meg Farris discovered when

Grief is always with us and can be especially difficult to manage at this time of year. Allison Lindsey, founder of The New Orleans Grief Center sits with Morgan Lentes to disucss managing holiday grief.

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BY KIM CHATELAIN | Contributing Writer On Oct. 29, Lisa Marks lost her beloved sister Barbara to coronavirus. Barbara Bourque was the oldest of six sisters in a Lafayette family and had been like a second mother to Marks, who is 20 years younger. Bourque began feeling ill and was admitted to Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center on Oct. 7. She tested positive for the coronavirus, was put on a ventilator Oct. 24 and died five days later, isolated from her family. She was

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