Mitch Carmody

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Grief, Bereavement and Childloss Expert

Mitch Carmody Quick Facts

Main Areas: Grief, loss and recovery
Best Sellers: Letters To My Son, a journey through grief
Career Focus: Author, Speaker, Writer, Artist, Healing Practionerr
Affiliation: Heartlightstudios.net, The Compassionate Friends, Bereaved Parents USA, Living With Loss Magazine

Mitch lost his father to heart disease in 1969. In 1975 his only brother died of cerebral palsy. In 1985 he lost his twin sister and her two boys in a car accident. In 1987 he lost his only son Kelly to cancer. His mother succumbed to cancer in 2000. Mitch has struggled with the grief journey and how grief is processed and perceived in this country. He published a book in 2002 called “Letters To My Son, a journey through grief. The book has now reached the bereaved in every state and 7 other countries.

In the past 10 years he has been requested to be a workshop presenter at several TCF ( The Compassionate Friends) National Conferences (Hollywood and Boston). He has been a workshop presenter with BPUSA. He was a Work shop presenter with the Annual International Death, Grief and Bereavement Conference in Las Crosse WI. He was a workshop presenter (w/CEU accreditation) where he presented “Alzheimer’s and Grief" in MandHe has spoken locally with many TCF chapters, various church groups, and many community support groups in the upper Midwest and across the country.

Most recently he has toured with Alan Pederson to three cities speaking at the local TCF special ceremonies on his ‘Angels are forever’ tour and will be in his upcoming " Celebebrate the Children " tour 2008-2009.

Mitch has contributed writings to "We Need Not Walk Alone Magazine" several times, most recently the spring 2007 issue, Grief Digest magazine, Bereavement magazine and currently a staff writer for Living with Loss magazine. He has appeared on several cable television shows, radio interviews with Dr. Gloria Horsley and several other radio/web interviews. Excerpts from his book and or writings appear in countless TCF chapters’ newsletter nationally and around the world. He counsels the bereaved daily through his website and have made many contributions to greif related websites world wide.

Mitch has dedicated his life to helping those individuals and families whom are trying to navigate in the uncharted territory of death, dying and the bereavement process. Through his workshop one may find insights into finding a way to move from Loss to Legacy..

In his Workshops:
He will touch on his personal journey of grief and how it has changed his life. He will speak about ways to fill that enormous void than is created following the death of a loved one. There will be discussions of the continued grief associated with the death of so many dreams that accompany our loss. He will discuss terms such as “closure” what it does and does not mean, moving forward not moving on. There are ways of channeling our sorrow into something positive for others and helping to heal our aching hearts in the process. He will discuss the concept of miracles and messages and other tools which are integral factors in processing the grief journey.

“In grief we stand on the edge of darkness, at times afraid to take that next step…”having faith is knowing that we shall find something firm to stand on to, or we will be taught how to fly”…We live in one sphere of existence, our loved ones who have died in another but with faith, the desire and undying love we can connect at the seam where our worlds meet. Dreams may die, but their spirit does not, nor does their memory.

We substantiate our loved ones life, by the way we live ours.”

-MC

Mitch lives in rural Minnesota with my wife of thirty years, he enjoys riding his horses, gardening, writing, helping others, giving blood monthly and creating works of art. He is also a proud first time grandfather to the daughter of their surviving daughter Meagan.

Other Programs & Highlights

Hand Drawn Pencil Portraits From Your Photo. Information available on website.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Mitch Carmody

By moving from loss to legacy we substanitate our childs life.

-Mitch Carmody

1. A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the father.
-ST.JOHN, 16:16
2. It may be the destination that is your goal, but only on the journey do you discover your soul.
-Mitch Carmody
3. Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear
is fear itself.
-Franklin Roosevelt.
4. Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe it.

-Voltaire
5. Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced…even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it
-John Keats
6. God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee.
-Benjamin Franklin

7. To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. - Walt Whitman

8. You must give some time to your fellow men.
Even if it’s a little thing, do something for
others- something for which you get no pay but
the privilege of doing it.
-Albert Schweitzer

9. Where there is love, there is life.
-Mahatma Gandhi

10. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die.
-Ecclesiastes iii-1

11. Why am I so special?
-I’m special because I’M ALIVE.
- Kelly Carmody

12. What shall we do with this strange summer, meant for you-
Dear, if we see the winter through
What shall be done with spring?

- Charlotte Mew

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs, - it is the parting.

-Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Neither can they die anymore: for they are equal unto the angels;
and are the children of God.

-St. Luke 21:36

Ah! little at best can all our hopes avail us
To lift this sorrow, or cheer us, when in the dark,
Unwilling, alone we embark,
And the things we have seen and have known and have heard of, fail us.
-Robert Bridges
On a dead child, Stanza 7

My heart is in anguish within me;
The terrors of death assail me.
Fear and trembling have beset me;
Horror has overwhelmed me.
I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.
-PSALM 55: 4-6

Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form.

-William Shakespeare

Though they go mad they
shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea
They shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost, love shall not;
-And death shall have no dominion.

-Dylan Thomas (1936)

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
-Blaise Pascal

O Death the healer, scorn thou not, I pray
To come to me: of cureless ills
thou art the one physician.
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse. -Aeschylus (456 B.C.)

Hearts that are united through the medium of sorrow,
Will not be separated by the glory of happiness.
Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful…

-KAHIL GIBRAN

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh, call my brother back to me!
I cannot play alone:
The summer comes with flower and bee...
Where is my brother gone?
-Felicia Dorthea Hemans

Things do not change; we change

-Henry Thoreau
[Walden (1854)]

The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces of or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and or ears can hear what is there about us always.
-Willa Sibert Cather

I have no pain, dear mother, now;
But oh! I am so dry:
Just moisten my poor lips once more;
And, mother, do not cry!

-Edward Farmer

From wind to wind, earth has one tale to tell;
All other sounds are dulled, and drowned, and lost,
In this one cry “farewell.”
- Celia Laighton Thaxter

It is sufficiently clear that all things are changed, and nothing really perishes,
and that the sum of matter remains absolutely the same.

-Frances Bacon

Sing as if no one were listening, dance as if no one were watching
And live everyday as if it were your last.
-Old Irish Proverb

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance
which transfigures the wretched.

-Victor Hugo