At Beyond Perspective we focus on providing tools that help grievers and others around them in their "support system." Our tools are designed to help them move through the difficult process of grief and bereavement.

• We create tools that help grievers.
• We create tools that allow others to help grievers.

Bereavement is a difficult time for everyone involved, and many people are not comfortable talking about death. This creates a social awkwardness, and it is easy to distance ourselves from a griever who may really need our support:

• "What should I say?"
• "What shouldn't I say?"
• "Should I say anything?"
• "What can I do?"

Beyond Perspective tools are designed to help break through this challenge!

Beyond Perspective grief tools use the power of strong imagery combined with a wisdom that only comes from those who have been there. There is a real truth to the old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words, and advertisers have used imagery for years in order to sell products by changing the way people think and feel. Used in a healthy manner, it also works with the grief process. "Strength from insight" and "the power of an image" is baked into each one of our tools:

• Grief Journals
• Grief journaling is a healthy, therapeutic practice for difficult times. Moving thoughts onto paper allows a griever to express emotions and anxieties at their own pace and does not require them to verbalize it to others until they feel ready.

Cards of Connection

More than just a card. Our Cards of Connection provide a way to give something that supports a healthy grief process, while you break the ice to say "I'm here for you." Connect, communicate and provide support to grievers working through the difficult process of bereavement.

The "Perspectives"

Our grief tools have grown out of a need that was discovered while working with a partner company - Beyond Indigo (www.beyondindigo.com). Beyond Indigo provides an internet-based, world-wide community where people come for information and to share, grieve, and heal from their losses. The site averages over 65,000 users per month and has won Forbes’ Best of the Web for many years running.

What we discovered on Beyond Indigo is a significant increase in the number of people who are looking for new ways to understand death and work through their grief. And out of this community, some important themes appear that can help others.

Beyond Perspective takes a number of these themes and brings them forward as "perspectives from those who have made it beyond grief and bereavement." Consider their power and what they might bring to you as a griever or to the griever you would like to help!

Eric John Pierson