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WOMAN HELPS OTHERS IN SEARCH FOR SOLACE
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Thursday, April 4, 2002
FEATURES - ACCENT & ARTS
By Kirsten Chapman For The Dispatch
A Mansfield woman, through memories and ritual, has found a way to turn grief into a constructive force. Robin A. Edgar once made a pact with her mother: "that she would fight to live with cancer and that I would fight to let her die the way she wanted to -- with dignity and in her own bed.''
Sandra Babich waged her battle for 11 years. When she passed away July 5, 1993, she was at home with her daughter. Later, while creating a syllabus for "Writing Your Life Story'' for the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., Edgar included written memories about her mother.
"I found great solace in recording our time together,'' she writes in the preface to her just-published In My Mother's Kitchen: An Introduction to the Healing Power of Reminiscence. "Through these memoirs, I developed rituals that helped more than anything else to ease the pain,'' Edgar said.
(read more about finding rituals)

In My Mother's Kitchen
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In My Mother's Kitchen
An Introduction to the Healing Power or Reminiscence
by Robin A. Edgar
Published by Tree House Enterprises: 2003
The death of a mother is like no other loss. For good or ill, a mother's influence shapes and defines us. She is the center of all things. Her loss is irreplaceable. But there are ways to recapture the essence of the relationship and Robin Edgar provides us with a practical, yet heartwarming, method of bringing this vital bond back not only into memory, but into perspective. (read more of this review)

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Good Grief
Robin Edgar Shares The Healing Power Of Reminiscence
By LIZ SENN - May 4, 2005

Robin Edgar’s modern-day quest for coping with grief requires looking back to the past. When her own mother passed away in 1993, Edgar began to search for ways to come to terms with her loss. “My mom was my best friend,” says Edgar. “Mother’s Day is a tough time — even more so because it usually falls around my birthday, May 8. By keeping her mother’s traditions alive, Edgar began to find peace. (read more about good grief)

MEMORIES CAN EASE PAIN OF LOSS, AUTHOR SAYS 
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Monday, July 28, 2003
By Lori Geller
FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

The smell of her mother's kitchen stirs a lifetime of memories.
As the author of In My Mother's Kitchen, now in a second edition, Edgar describes how to deal with a loved one's loss by using sights, sounds and smells.
''The best way to reminisce is to follow your nose and think of a smell that brings back a memory whenever you smell it today,'' Edgar said.
(read more about following your senses)

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February 10, 2004 
AS WE AGE 
Reflecting on a lifetime of memories 
PAM KELLEY

Robin Edgar begins her reminiscence workshops by asking participants to tell stories from their pasts. Often, silence follows. People are shy about speaking first. But Edgar gently prods, as she did at a recent workshop with residents of The Laurels in the Village of Carolina Place, an assisted-living center in Pineville. Think of a smell that brings back memories, she says. A certain food. Coffee. Cod liver oil. (read more about this workshop)