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A Charm-ing, Healthy Approach to Grief
A Charm-ing, Healthy Approach to Grief
Rebranding the Image of Grief
Preston's Charm Empathy Kit's mission is to memorialize a Loved One who passed away in a way that will keep his or her spirit alive and to rebrand grief and cultivate a new and healthier grief culture.
Preston's Charm Empathy Kit will accomplish its mission by helping people who have lost a Loved One manage th
Rebranding the Image of Grief
Preston's Charm Empathy Kit's mission is to memorialize a Loved One who passed away in a way that will keep his or her spirit alive and to rebrand grief and cultivate a new and healthier grief culture.
Preston's Charm Empathy Kit will accomplish its mission by helping people who have lost a Loved One manage their grief and move forward with their lives more healthily and productively.
Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit Goals
Why call it an "Empathy Kit?"
Four years of proven results have shown that in addition to helping people grieve the loss of their Loved One in a healthier and better way, Preston's Charm has also inspired and encouraged relatives, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and even strangers, to practice empathy for people who have lost a Loved One. As you will read on this website, people have practiced empathy in awe-inspiring ways and with genuine and sincere sympathy and love for the families of the Loved Ones who passed away.
Why Rebrand Grid and Create a New and Healthy Grief Culture?
On August 28, 2023, Time Magazine published an article “America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse? The information in this article reveals that traditional therapy isn’t working.
If you're tired of the way our culture expects people to manage grief in the same way they have for hundreds of years; grieving the traditional way in which each day is filled with sadness, pain, and despair 24/7; and like to find a better, healthier, and more productive way to grieve that includes moments of happiness, relief, peace, and hope, we invite you to give Preston's Charm Empathy Kit a try for your Loved One.
The purchase of Preston's Charm Empathy It will support our mission and “Rebranding Grief” Campaign. Here is a link to an article about it. "Rebranding Grief and Cultivating a New, Refreshing Grief Culture."
*If you feel depressed and/or struggling with grief, please seek professional help.
*If you are in a crisis, please dial 911.
Cultivating a Healthier and
Productive Grief Culture
Two years after the death of her son, Preston, Bridget was tired and frustrated with the way she was coping with grief. She also felt stuck because conventional therapy wasn’t working or offering her any solutions so she took matters into her own hands and created Preston's Charm.
If you
Cultivating a Healthier and
Productive Grief Culture
Two years after the death of her son, Preston, Bridget was tired and frustrated with the way she was coping with grief. She also felt stuck because conventional therapy wasn’t working or offering her any solutions so she took matters into her own hands and created Preston's Charm.
If you’ve lost a Loved One and are looking for a better, healthier, and more productive way to cope with and manage grief, you’ve come to the right place.
On Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit website, you can read the full story about Bridget’s creation of Preston’s Charm and the four years of proven results, which include testimonials from people who have benefited from Preston’s Charm and other Charms made by mothers for their Loved One who passed away.
After you read the full story, we hope you’ll purchase a Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit for your Loved One from the All Products Section.
Bridget Bagley created Preston’s Charm in 2019 to help her cope with the death of her son, Preston, and keep his spirit alive. Preston was killed after a head-on collision on his way back to Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
Bridget made 10 of Preston’s Charms. She kept one and gave the rest to her husband, Bill, their 3 other sons, and friends. As the months passed, she made more of Preston's Charms and left them in places like walking trails, campgrounds, Elks Lodges, and VFW and American Legion Posts. Bridget has made over 1,500 of Preston's Charms with about 800 in circulation all over the USA!
People who found or received it emailed Bridget photos of where they found Preston's Charm and their sympathies. They applauded Bridget for her idea of making and the passing of Preston's Charm; and also wrote inspirational messages of how Preston's Charm positively impacted their lives.
Preston’s Charm has traveled to every state in America, 15 countries, and 4 islands. Hogan has also traveled with Preston's Charm around the world and left one of Preston's Charm in Dubai, India, Vietnam, and Taiwan.
Keeping Your Loved One’s
Spirit and Legacy Alive
Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit was founded by Bridget Bagley and Hogan Hilling on November 9, 2023. The inspiration and reason they started this business is because of the responses Bridget received since 2019 from the people who found or received Preston's Charm and the empathy they practiced
Keeping Your Loved One’s
Spirit and Legacy Alive
Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit was founded by Bridget Bagley and Hogan Hilling on November 9, 2023. The inspiration and reason they started this business is because of the responses Bridget received since 2019 from the people who found or received Preston's Charm and the empathy they practiced by traveling with it and passing it to other people.
Preston's Charm also inspired Bridget and Hogan to write a book. Simon and Schuster and Archway Publishing will debut in Spring 2024. The title is Preston’s Charm: A Charm-ing, Healthy, and Empathetic Approach to Grief.
* Preston's Charm Empathy Kit will use the profits to create the Preston's Charm Foundation
Preston’s Charm Foundation’s mission is to rebrand the image of grief and cultivate a new, refreshing and healthier grief culture.
Preston’s Charm will accomplish its mission by helping people who have lost a Loved One manage grief and move forward with life in a healthy and productive way and donate the revenue it generates from the revenue of the book Preston’s Charm: A Charm-ing, Healthy and Empathetic Approach to Grief, and Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit, and Preston’s Charm Empathy Retreat to charities who service veterans and children.
Preston’s Charm Foundation Goals
Rebranding Grief and Cultivating, New and Refreshing Grief Culture by Bridget Bailey and Hogan Hilling - Grief Digest Magazine
*Preston’s Charm Foundation is a for-profit organization that will donate its profits to charity organizations that serve and support veterans, law enforcement and children.
Bringing Unity to the
Grieving Community
A Unique and Special Gift
The Charm is a more personal and versatile gift. A person can carry their Loved One's Charm in a purse or hang it around their neck. A person can also pass their Loved One's Charm from one person to another. The people who receive or find it can take the Charm on vacations,
Bringing Unity to the
Grieving Community
A Unique and Special Gift
The Charm is a more personal and versatile gift. A person can carry their Loved One's Charm in a purse or hang it around their neck. A person can also pass their Loved One's Charm from one person to another. The people who receive or find it can take the Charm on vacations, hikes, sporting events, concerts, camping, fishing, rodeo....... The places the Charm can go and the people it meets are limitless.
Preston's Charm Empathy Kit is for any person who has lost a Loved One, REGARDLESS OF HOW SHE OR HE DIED.
Instead of flowers, plants, basket arrangements, lanterns, lamps, wind chimes, candles, pocket crosses, oils, or bells, a personalized Charm with a photo of the Loved One provides a special and more loving, meaningful remembrance and tribute that will last a lifetime.
The gift card also offers a way for a person to help a relative or friend who cannot afford the money to purchase the Charms or have the crafting skills or time to make them.
SPONSORSHIP
Bridget and I also offer a Sponsorship program. We have a list of people who cannot afford or possess the crafting skills or have time to make the Charms. For more info on how to Sponsor a person email Hogan at hogan@prestonscharm.com
* Preston's Charm Empathy Kit will donate the profits to charitable organizations.
Get Relief In Empathetic Fashion
with Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit
One of the great features we included in the revised Charm is the hole punch in the shape of a Heart next to the key chain. (In the photo is the married couple, Tammy and Junior Adams, who gave me Preston's Charm.
Keep one of your Loved One's Charms for yourself. Give the other Charms to surviving family members, relatives, friends, and other people who are mourning the death of your Loved One. We recommend you start with 5 Charms to experience the “Spiritual Power” of the Charm that other people have felt after sharing it with other people, even strangers. Once you feel comfortable sharing the Charm with a larger group of people, you can place another order with us.
Give your Loved One’s Charm to a friend, neighbor, or stranger. Or leave it somewhere for a person to find it like a restaurant, bar, or non-profit organization like the Elks Lodge, Veterans of Foreign War, or American Legion, a tree branch on a hiking trail or campground, a battleship, a cruise ship, monuments, business signs, public gardens, museums, military memorials, park benches, gates of historic sites and museums, on trail posts, elevator, bus, on top of large rocks and attached it to a bobber and dropped it in a river. Be as creative as you like. (On the back of the Charm are instructions on what people who find it can do with the Charm.)
Now, imagine your Loved One’s spirit in the form of the Charm meeting people, accompanying them to events like parties, concerts, weddings, NASCAR, and football, baseball, and basketball games, or traveling with them on hikes, cruise ships, airplanes and vacations to countries all over the world.
To fully understand the concept of the passing of Preston’s Charm, we encourage you to visit the Flat Stanley Project website. Preston’s Charm mimics this children's project created in 1995 by Dale Hubert to encourage writing, reading, and connecting with people worldwide. "Flat Stanleys” is a paper cut-out booklet in the shape of a boy. The pages include a brief journal documenting the place he traveled from and the person who sent it. The students who receive Flat Stanley are invited to write a note and return it to its sender. Oftentimes the recipient returns Flat Stanley with a photo or postcard from the person and place it visited. As a part of the project, students plot Flat Stanley's travels on maps. In 2008, more than 6,000 classes from 47 countries took part in the Flat Stanley Project.
Seattle resident Ashley Kietzmann traveled with Preston’s Charm to Wisconsin to attend a wedding with it. At the reception, she shared Preston’s Charm story with the bride and groom and asked them to take a photo with it. The couple on their special day obliged her.
Mark Lassauax found Preston’s Charm at Dolores Point in Colorado. It is a popular tourist destination. After Mark picked it up near a historic cabin, he attached it to the passenger side of the plane that he owns. Now Preston's Charm travels with him where ever he flies.
Army Sergeant Charlie Liebchen traveled with Preston’s charm to Iraq and raised it along with the American flag on the tallest flag pole in the Middle East.
Emilee Wertman attached Preston’s Charm to her backpack and finished the last 800 miles with it by her side. Then she left it on the northern terminus of the Arizona Trail for another person to find it.
Brice Box, Army MP SFG, 855th MP CO, found Preston’s Charm while elk hunting in Happy Jack, Arizona. He kept it with him during his hunt and killed and tagged a bull elk.
Mark Ostroot carried Preston's Charm with him during an off-road snowmobile adventure along the continental divide and then to Whitefish, Montana.
On December 26, 2021, while Hogan was traveling across the USA in his RV, he received Preston's Charm from Tammy and Junior Adams during his visit to an Elks Lodge in Key West, Florida. Tammy and Junior found and picked up Preston's Charm five months earlier at the VFW in Deadwood, South Dakota where it was left by one of Bridget's friends, Jeff McKinney. (In the photo are Hogan, Tammy, and Junior.)
After Bridget mailed Hogan 49 of Preston's Charms, he visited and left one of Preston's Charms at an Elks Lodge in every state except Hawaii, and wrote Preston's and his name in the guest book. Hogan also traveled around the world with Preston's Charm and left one in Dubai, India, Vietnam, and Taiwan.
Three options. A kit with 5, 25, or 50 of your personalized Loved One's Charms. It includes a badge with your Loved One's photo. On the front of the badge is a photo of your Loved One, with the dates below his photo, a poem or quote of your choice, and a number to track where the Charm is found and travels. On the back of the Charm are in
Three options. A kit with 5, 25, or 50 of your personalized Loved One's Charms. It includes a badge with your Loved One's photo. On the front of the badge is a photo of your Loved One, with the dates below his photo, a poem or quote of your choice, and a number to track where the Charm is found and travels. On the back of the Charm are instructions on what a person who finds it can do with the Charm. It also includes 5 pieces of jewelry with beads. The Charm and jewelry are not attached for a reason. We invite you to attach the jewelry to the Charm to make it a special moment for you and your Loved One. Each piece of jewelry is different, which makes each Charms unique. We suggest you keep the piece of jewelry with the durable rod and give the other four to other people.
There are 3 different Standard Empathy Kits - 5 Charms for $29.99, 25 Charms for $99, or 50 Charms for $149.
Matthew's Charm in the photo was made by his mother Colleen Kenna.
*DISCLOSURE - Photographs will generally be protected by copyright as artistic works. Therefore, the person who took the original photo owns the copyright of the photo; and not Preston’s Charm Grief Kit.
*DISCLOSURE - Photographs will generally be protected by copyright as artistic works. Therefore, the person who took the original photo owns the copyright of the photo; and not Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit.
The copyright on the personalized Charms for sale from Preston’s Charm Grief Kit only pertains to the design of the Charm and not the photo of the customer’s Loved One who passed away. When a customer purchases a personalized Charm it incorporates giving Preston’s Charm Grief Kit permission to print a copy of the customer's Loved One’s photo on the personalized Charm.
Simon and Schuster to Debut
Preston's Charm Book
May 2024
Preston's Charm: A Charm-ing, Healthy, and Empathetic Approach to Grief
Bridget Bagley shares how she lovingly keeps Preston's spirit alive and memorializes his life by replacing some of the sadness, pain, and despair with happiness, pleasure, and hope.
While she struggled with the
Simon and Schuster to Debut
Preston's Charm Book
May 2024
Preston's Charm: A Charm-ing, Healthy, and Empathetic Approach to Grief
Bridget Bagley shares how she lovingly keeps Preston's spirit alive and memorializes his life by replacing some of the sadness, pain, and despair with happiness, pleasure, and hope.
While she struggled with the grief of losing Preston, who died after a head-on collision, she designed a piece of jewelry with Preston’s photo on it to manage her grief healthily and productively.
Bridget made 1,500 of Preston’s Charms and passed them to people or left them in places for people to find them. The people who received or found Preston’s Charm passed it from one person to another. Since Preston’s Charm debut in 2019, it has traveled and been found in every state in the USA, 16 countries, and 4 islands.
If you are tired of the way our culture expects people to manage grief in the same way they have for hundreds of years, grieving the traditional way in which each day is filled with sadness, pain, and despair 24/7, and would you like to find a better, healthier, and more productive way to grieve that includes moments of happiness, relief, peace, and hope, then this book is for you.
*We will add Preston's Charm Book to our store as soon as we receive a release date from the publisher. Customers will be able to pre-order the book.
How to Raise Money for Your Non-Profit Organization.
Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit will collaborate with charities to raise money for their organization.
Who Benefits From the Sales of Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit
Families of the Loved Ones who passed away. The passing of the personalized Charms keeps the Loved One’s Spirit and Legacy alive
How to Raise Money for Your Non-Profit Organization.
Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit will collaborate with charities to raise money for their organization.
Who Benefits From the Sales of Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit
Families of the Loved Ones who passed away. The passing of the personalized Charms keeps the Loved One’s Spirit and Legacy alive as it travels from person to person and place to place.
Charities also benefit because Preston's Charm Empathy Kit will donate the profits to them..
How It Works
Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit will allow charities to sell the kits. We will give each charity a special code to keep track of their sales and donate the profits to the charity. To learn more about collaborating with us contact Hogan Hilling through the Contact Page of Preston’s Charm Empathy Kit.
I received Preston's Charm from Hogan. I am deeply touched by the tribute you made to your son by passing these charms out for people from all over to know and remember him. Your idea of a traveling remembrance for your son, Preston, is such a heartwarming idea. Carrying Preston’s Charm has been very comforting. I carry it with me in my wallet (alongside my rosary beads) until I find the space or the person worthy to receive it. I think about him and Bridget often.
Shirley White’s son, Logan, died of medical complications a few days before his 28th birthday in 2017.
I received Preston's Charm from Hogan. Preston’s Charm has made me feel better and it has brought me good luck. My daughter accidentally threw away an envelope with a fifty-dollar bill. I went down to look through the nasty dumpster full of trash. It was sticking out like a sore thumb it was amazing how fast I found an envelope in a full-size dumpster. Thanks, Preston for helping me find it. I will hold on to Preston’s Charm and tell the story for a while until my healing process gets a little easier. When I come across the right person I will pass it on.
Corey Thornton lost two of his children. His daughter, Autumn was 3 months old when she died of medical complications. Eleven years later on March 7, 2022, his oldest son, Corey Jr., passed away from a fentanyl overdose. He was 20 years old.
Thank you Bridget for sending me Preston's Charm. Preston’s Charm represents more than just a remembrance. It has a much deeper impact on me that is truly unexplainable. It touches my soul and gives me hope that Preston is out there enjoying all of these places. It gives me a sliver of connection and hope. It also brings comfort and healing.
Charlie Liebchen is a military veteran of 7 years. He served with Preston 3rd Special Forces Group GSB (Group Support Battalion). Charlie left the military in 2018 as a Sergeant. Since 2019 he has been working as a DOD contractor, deploying to combat zones around the globe.
I received Preston's Charm from Hogan. I'm sure Preston is proud of your sweet way of keeping people aware of who he is. I have held on to Preston’s Charm because I also lost my son. Mont IV, at an early age, and there was just something about Preston's Charm that I needed. I have a picture on my dressing table of Mont IV. I have placed Preston's Charm on the corner of his picture frame. I see them every time I sit down and throughout the day.
Gail and Dr. Mont Highley’s son, Mont Highley IV, was murdered in January 2004. His case is still unsolved. Dr. Mont Highley III and Gail Highley have been married for 60 years. Dr. Mont served in the Air Force at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery and opened a family medical practice. Dr. Mont and Gail are retired and have 3 children, 7 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren.
I found Preston’s Charm hanging on a tree branch at the Whitefish Bike Retreat where I was participating in multiple 40-mile days between campsites After I read the messages on Preston’s Charm, I thought about the friends I'd lost because Preston and I were the same age. I immediately felt connected to Preston and wanted to keep his spirit alive with me. It felt like I was meant to find it, and that felt like something I should reflect on and honor. I think it's a special bond to share, and I'm honored to have been made a part of it. What a good reminder Preston's charm is that no one is ever truly gone and that our energy remains as our memories are shared….. I attached the charm to my handlebars and he rode with me during the multiple 40-mile days between campsites.
Scott Holland is a former pet shop owner. He works as a software engineer. He and his partner, Dena, enjoy biking around Portland and other areas in the USA. They are avid gardeners and enjoy spending time on DIY projects. Scott and Dena live in Portland, Oregon in a house with their two cats.
As I learned more about how Bridget channeled her grief through creating Preston’s Charm it made me realize there are ways to include happiness in your grief that are everlasting. I also realized that staying positive, regardless of how small these moments are will keep Jon’s spirit and legacy alive.
Learning more about Preston’s Charm and its journey inspired me to enroll my golden retriever, Finley, and me in a dog therapy program.
After Finley and I graduate, I look forward to choosing an organization where we can share smiles and joy with people, young and old alike who need help. Connecting with Bridget and Hogan has been a Godsend. Through this luck, I’ve found inspiration and friendship in two great people! Thank you Bridget for making Jonathon’s Charm Empathy Kit for me!
Jolie Hackworth is the mother of Army Sergeant Jon Hackworth who died by suicide on April 12, 2020.
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