Maggie Horgan

Heartifacts: when a Child Dies, Love Remains Maggie Horgan

Heartifacts shares the message that Maggie Horgan has already used to help hundreds of grieving families at hospitals and memorial services in her home state of Pennsylvania. A message of hope for parents and siblings facing a loss that no person should have to bear: the loss of a child.

Maggie has experienced such a loss herself. In 2001, her firstborn son, Neil, lost his life to cancer. Drowning in grief, Maggie knew that she needed to find a way to move on as the single mother of three other children. Her strength and ability to do so came from her son Neil?and a heart-shaped stone that appeared in the most unlikely of places.

For parents, siblings, doctors, nurses, social workers, and educators?and all those who grieve for a child?Heartifacts shares a compassionate message of healing in line with the work of Melody Beattie and Mitch Albom; it is anchored in the profoundly personal.