Lynne Hughes
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By the age of 12, Lynne Hughes knew all about grief. At the age of nine, her mother died. Then three years later, her father passed away. Coping with the death of loved ones so early in life spurred a desire to make a difference in the lives of other children grieving the loss of a loved one.

In 1995, Lynne helped to start Motherless Daughters, a national organization for women and girls who lost their mothers at a young age. Lynne’s work with Motherless Daughters served as a catalyst to Lynne and her husband Kelly, who in the Spring of 1998 created Comfort Zone Camp, a non-profit organization based in Richmond, Virginia that offers free weekend bereavement camps for children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling or primary caregiver. Comfort Zone Camp is now the nation’s largest nonprofit bereavement camp for children.

She has been profiled in numerous media outlets, including Parade magazine (May 7, 2006), People magazine and Parents magazine, and has appeared on NBC’s The Today Show, CBS news, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and Friends and The Caroline Rhea Show among others.

Blog Entries by Lynne Hughes

Relationship 'Seasons': How Loss Changes Your Perspective

Posted February 21, 2011 | 12:41:00 (EST)

It's no surprise that when people experience a loss, particularly a death, they see the world with a different lens. That includes how they view people and their relationships with them. My own mother died when I was nine, and three years later, my father died. From that point on,...

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How Did Grief Get an Expiration Date?

Posted July 7, 2010 | 18:40:00 (EST)

Certain things need an expiration date. Milk, eggs, mayonnaise, meat, fish -- there is a time we need to be done with them, and throw them away. I get all that. But does grief have an expiration date? For some reason, there seems to be an acceptable shelf life --...

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Childhood Loss: The Untold Burden

Posted May 26, 2010 | 10:46:41 (EST)

Play dates, sleepovers, soccer games, pizza, death.

Death? How did that get in there? It is not an image that comes to mind when you think of childhood. And yet it is a part of childhood much more often than commonly thought. New national research we conducted...

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