
Wearing Red to a Funeral: ALS, Grief & Choosing Joy Over Guilt - Rachel Kerr Schneider
Why does societyexpect grieving people to wear black, shrink into isolation, and treat anyspark of happiness as a betrayal to those they lost?
Rachel Kerr Schneider is an author, keynote speaker, and founder ofSpirited Prosperity. Widowed at age 49 with two youngsons aged 10 and 14, Rachel walked alongside her husband John through athree-year battle with terminal Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS / motorneuron disease). When John passed away, Rachel boldly defied conventionalexpectations of performative mourning by wearing a vibrant red dress to hiscelebration of life—signifying love…
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