Resilient is what we must always strive for.  It will be our guiding light as we move through this journey!!!  For  understanding, I will use the definition from Webster’s dictionary of resilient as able to withstand or recover from difficult conditions.

Hello all and welcome to my monthly blog Resilient.  My plan is to provide a few words and maybe some ideas for the recently bereaved.  If your loss has occurred in the past perhaps you may still find some words of comfort or support here.   

So, here we are in the holiday season of – the most wonderful time of the year- during a global pandemic with racial unrest and you have lost a loved one.  You find yourself unable to even have the traditional funeral service surrounded by family and friends.  I know you want to scream, but you can’t because so many others are looking for you to guide them.  Here is an idea that I have personally done.  If you live in a house,go down into the basement and just scream your head off.  Literally, just make sure the windows are all closed.    Even better if no one else is home.  Believe me it works.  The stress levels decrease and perhaps some tears flow as well.  If you don’t live in a house, maybe use your car for the purpose of privacy.  Of course, drive someplace safe to let it all hang out.

You must find some form of self care to soothe yourself since you are very important to so many others that love and cherish you.  It would be wise to just keep putting one foot in front of the other until you get where you want to be.

Don’t create limitations for ourselves, our deceased loved ones would be sad. 

Resiliently Yours,

Yvonne of Illinois Casket Company

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How to personalize your site

Want to know how to add a button to your pages and posts like it’s shown above?

How to add a button

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Once you have your site completely up and going, you’ll want to come back and write your own posts, and upload your own images. Once you have about 3-5 of your own blog posts, delete all the sample posts and pages so you’re only left with your OWN content!

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Headings are primarily used for SEO purposes, and not necessarily for aesthetic reasons.  See this article from Yoast that explains how to properly use them.

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• Content/Sidebar – example
• Sidebar/Content – example
• Full Width Content – example

Choose for your entire site

In order to choose the layout option you’d like that covers the entirety of your site, you’ll navigate to GENESIS > THEME SETTINGS.  Once there you’ll scroll down to the DEFAULT LAYOUT box where you’ll see this:

You can simply click on the option you’d like from these little screen icons.

Please note that in some of our themes we force a specific layout option on the home page occasionally for structural reasons.  If you are making changes here that aren’t affecting your home page or a custom page template on your site, it’s because it’s been forced to appear that way.

Choose per page, post, or product

If you’d like to have most of your site one layout but you’d like a specific page or post to appear differently, you can do that as well.  A great example of this is you want all your blog posts to have the content/sidebar format, but you want a lot of your pages to be full width.  You can see this displayed through our own site.

To do this, navigate to PAGES/POSTS > EDIT the page/posts you’d like to change.  Once there scroll down a little bit until you see the LAYOUT SETTINGS and you’ll simply click the option you’d like from the little screen icons.

If you are not seeing this box when editing a page or post, scroll all the way to the top and select SCREEN OPTIONS in that tab at the very top right corner of your screen.  It will drop down and you’ll just be sure the LAYOUT SETTINGS option has a checkmark next to it.  Now you’ll have that option available.

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