About Coralease Ruff
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Dr. Coralease Ruff is a Bereavement Facilitator, A Registered Nurse, a University Professor and an International Nursing Consultant. She and her husband became bereaved parents in 1997, following the death of their 21-year old daughter in an automobile accident in the Dominican Republic. Since then she has been involved in the Compassionate Friends Inc. in many roles including founder and chapter leader, chapter treasurer, Chair of professional day, workshop presenter and member of the national Board of Directors. Coralease is a frequent presenter on grief topics locally and nationally including The Compassionate Friends (TCF) National Conferences, the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association and The Society of Childhood Emergencies as well as local universities, churches and community centers. She has held faculty positions at Catholic University, University of Washington, The Catholic University and is currently Professor Emeritus at Howard University. She is an end of life nursing educator and developed and currently teaches a university course on Grief and Loss to graduate and undergraduate nursing students. She has published widely in professional nursing literature and the lay press. Her grief articles include Grieving through the Years; When the Nurse is Grieving and Finding Help and Hope in the Aftermath of the Virginia Tech Tragedy. She combined a biography of her daughter with a grief handbook entitled; Her Light Still Shines which is published by iUniverse and will be available in bookstores soon. Dr. Coralease Ruff appeared on the radio show “Healing the Grieving Heart” with Dr. Gloria & Dr. Heidi Horsley to discuss, Grief and Your Health: Taking Care of Yourself. To hear this interview, click on the following link: www.voiceamericapd.com/health/010157/horsley072706.mp3 Dr. Coralease Ruff appeared on the radio show “Healing the Grieving Heart” with Dr. Gloria & Dr. Heidi Horsley to discuss, Coping with the Sudden Death of a Child in a Foreign Country. To hear this interview, click on the following link: www.voiceamericapd.com/health/010157/horsley062509.mp3
Coralease Ruff's Articles
When Canceling a Holiday is Not an Option
Holidays and other special days are times that we miss our loved ones more acutely. It is these family gatherings where everyone is joyful that make the void feel more enormous.
After suffering through my first …
From Pain to Ache to ‘New Me’: Healing From the Loss of a Child
Never in my wildest nightmare could I have imagined that my child, my only daughter, would die. Nor could I imagine living through it. The unthinkable did happen! My 21-year daughter was killed in a …
Why Do We Grieve Over a Celebrity’s Death?
By Coralease Ruff –??
We react so strongly to the death of public figures like Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett,?and Princess Diana, whom we do not know personally, primarily because we feel as if we know them. …
Contributing Writer Ruff Publishes Book About Daughter
Coralease Cox Ruff, a contributing writer for Open to Hope, has written a new book about her daughter, who died at the age of 21.
A bereaved mother and grief educator, Ms. Ruff skillfully combines her …
Strategies for Surviving Holidays and Special Days
By Coralease Ruff —
Many of us can exhale now that Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanzaa and other winter holidays have come and gone. Some have survived their first big holiday season since the death of their loved …
Coralease Ruff: Help Others Deal With Their Losses
By Coralease Ruff –?
“a grieving mother” – Response from Dr. Coralease Cox Ruff
Dear “a grieving mother”,
I am sorry to hear of the death of your precious daughter. The devastating experience of the death of a child is a life long experience that we all respond to …
Grief Quotes: Grief and Your Health: Dr. Coralease Ruff
Dr. Coralease Ruff: What I always say to people about those feelings of regret, sometimes if you write a letter to them expressing those feelings of regret, at least sometimes that can help, because …
JULY 27, 2006 ? GRIEF AND YOUR HEALTH: TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF: CORALEASE C. RUFF, RN, PH.D.,
Coralease Ruff is a registered nurse and a nursing professor.? She began working in the field of bereavement ten years ago following the untimely death of her beloved 21-year-old daughter, Kandy, in a car accident …
Create Space in Your Life to Find Hope
A Memory Game for Grieving Children
Remembering Alexandria: A Personal Story of Perinatal Loss
Woman Loses Organs to Cancer, Still Revels in Life
Caregivers Need Time to Let Go
August 26, 2010: Guest Charles Corr: Helping Children Cope with Death and Grief
