A New Blog Feature - Grief, Loss & Comfort Quotes *Check out the bottom of the blog*

With the redesign, we have finally been able to create a Quote Generator that rotates many of the favorite quotations and words of comfort featured on the Journey of Hearts site.

You can find the Quote Generator at the bottom of the blog page. The quote generator is designed to reveal a new quote every day...an incentive to come back and visit the Grief, Loss & Transitions' blog.

Example

Even in the darkest times, memories of past winters melting into spring can comfort, sustain us and bring hope. Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS

A Special Thanks
We would like to give a special acknowledgment of thanks to "Tips for New Bloggers" for making the code available.


Source:
Java Script for Quote of the Day: Tips for New Bloggers. February 10, 2007.
http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com/search/label/Quotes%20Widget

What has the Comfortdoc/Griefdoc been doing?

Visitors and supporters of the The Journey of Hearts site will have noticed that the site has been pretty quiet for the last several years, since the birth of my youngest daughter.

While the site may have been quiet, I have been pretty busy. In the past several years I have experience the following major life events:

• Birth of a second child who is also my NICU Survivor (Making me a former NICU Parent)
  
• Moved to a New Town when my daughter was 5 months old.
  
• Begun shifting my professional focus to teaching - Nutrition and Wellness and Grief, Loss and Bereavement Courses both at the College and Graduate levels.
  
• Developed The Violet Heart Collection as an online business venture. (Also undergoing revision.)

I have also attained the following additional credentials, certifications and positions:

• Certification Fellow in Thanatology from the Association of Death Education and Counselors. As far as I know I am the first physician to receive this designation.
• Online Associate Adjunct Professor with Madonna University.
  
• Certified in Online Teaching from Cerro Coso College and Madonna University.
  
• Editor on the topic of Medicine for the Journal of Educators Online.
• Founding Member of the Medical Wellness Association.
• International Adviser of the Medical Wellness Association.
  
• Editor for Medical Wellness Association Journal.
  
• Executive Advisory Board for the American College of Wellness.
  
• Served as the About.com guide for Death, Dying & Bereavement

Within the last few months I have undertaken the following projects:

• Launched NICU Parent Support Site
• Created Squidoo Series of Lenses
• Joined Type-A Mom as a Contributing Writer and Blogger
  
• Launched Free NICU eBook
• Begun the Redesign for the Journey of Hearts site.
• Begun the Grief, Loss & Transitions - Journey of Hearts Blog.
  

Griefdoc is becoming Comfortdoc

Since the early days of Journey of Hearts, I have used the pseudonym "Griefdoc" as part of my online alias. The focus with this handle was on grief and grieving. See The Grief Doc at http://journeyofhearts.org/about/griefdoc.html

Over the last several years, I have begun using the pseudonym "Comfortdoc" the name you notice I am using as my profile for this blog. The focus with this newer handle is on comfort and comforting, I think a more appropriate name for the purpose of Journey of Hearts.

So with the redesign and refocus of Journey of Hearts, I am shifting my 'handle' from Griefdoc (with the focus on grief) to Comfortdoc (with the focus being on providing comfort).