Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Cindy writes:
I have been listening to your radio show for awhile. I download to iPod and listen in the car. Eight years ago, my 3-year-old son was killed when a truck backed over him while he was walking with his sister and childcare provider to the store. As you can imagine, the pain was […]
Friday, July 25, 2008
You’re home now — From the cemetery — Just closed the door on an endless line of well-wishing-filled-with-advice strangers who didn’t know what to say but talked endlessly anyway, and now that they’re gone you know you will never see or hear from most of them ever again. Your hair smells of roses and gladioli and you secretly wish for a giant eraser to erase all the pain. You’ve just buried your life partner; your husband, your best friend. As Joan Didion says, “Life changes fast.” He’s gone now and like it or lump it, you’re not. You stand before […]
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Award-winning poet Pamela Papka Sexton touches on the experience of losing her mother (In the Mirror) and her father (Two Rivers). “The mirror doesn’t lie/She is closer than she seems,” Sexton writes of her mother. Of her father: “I look toward Round Top/and know he is there, stitched/in a tuxedo.”
Barbara, Asheville, N.C., asks My mother died recently at age 85. I’m the only surviving child. She left a huge house full of “stuff.” I just can’t bring myself to do what’s needed to clean it out and sell the house. Is this normal? What can I do to get over the hump? Drs. Gloria and Heidi respond: First of all, we want to say how sorry we are to hear about your mother’s death. As you say, you are the only surviving child, so we assume that you have also suffered sibling loss. It is difficult to say goodbye […]
Friday, July 18, 2008
Suicide survivor Carol Loehr shares what others often say when they learn that her son died by suicide. She advocates for educating people about the neurological illnesses that cause suicide.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Writer Diana Gardner-Williams found a way to reconnect with the memory of a deceased loved one: “scrapbooking.” It gives grieving people an outlet by allowing them to preserve their loved one?s legacy in a positive, productive and personal manner.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Writer Michelle Linn-Gust shares her journey of coming to terms with the suicide of her sister
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