Adult Orphan Tales, Week 4 Meet our Motherless Monday contributor, Jules from Australia. She is a retired therapist who advocates for those with dementia and mental health needs. Jules runs a Facebook group that offers support to Australians with dementia and their caregivers. …

Adult Orphan Tales, Week 3 Sharon Ehlers, founder of Grief Reiki, is our Fatherless Friday contributor this week. She’s an author, Reiki master, and Grief Recovery Specialist based in Los Angeles, CA. Sharon began practicing Reiki during her 30 year career in cyber security as a way to manage stress, and later, as a way…

Adult Orphan Tales, Week 3 This week’s Motherless Monday contributor is Hayley, who shared her Fatherless Friday story with us last week. She is an Australian artist and death literacy advocate who pays tribute to her departed loved ones through art and activism. Her website, The Departure, serves as an…

Adult Orphan Tales, Week 2 This week’s Fatherless Friday contributor, Hayley, is an artist and death literacy advocate who pays tribute to her departed loved ones through art and activism. Her website, The Departure, serves as an educational platform to help the public better understand death and dying. …

Adult Orphan Tales, Week 2 This week’s Adult Orphan Tale will focus on a dream I had shortly before my mother died. If you haven’t already, please read my Adult Orphan Tale about her here. I was inspired by two podcasts that focus on grief. Grief Dreams is hosted by grief dreams researcher Joshua Black…

This week I introduced Adult Orphan Tales and shared my Motherless Monday story. Today’s Fatherless Friday post is about my father’s death — the loss that made me a double orphan. And so the tale goes: My father was 61 years old when he was diagnosed with cancer in the…

My name is Angela and I created the Adult Orphan’s Collective as a way to alchemize my tragedies into triumph. The loss of my parents has forever altered my life and the way I view humanity. This project serves as both a tribute and an outlet that I’m calling Adult…

We take on many identities throughout our lives. When I decided to begin a journey into the cannabis industry I knew it would require me to identify with the industry, an idea that scared me but would ultimately set me free in so many ways. As I continued down that…

Two years ago when I set out to begin a career in the cannabis industry, people would ask me, “What do you want to do in this industry?” All I could come up with was, “I want to end the stigma around cannabis.” I began attending networking events, community workshops…