Susanne Giesemann is a retired Navy Commander who had a very up-close-and-personal experience on 9/11 as aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, seeing both Manhattan and the Pentagon …

After any significant loss, we feel empty, lost, and engulfed with indescribable pain. One grueling process in grief work is connecting our feelings and state of being with words. However, once we get passed this …

Ligia M. Houben, is a Certified Grief Counselor whose personal experiences and those of others tell us that losses are an inevitable part life’s journey. We all endure losses but Ligia shows us how to …

Ed Gray’s grieving process was triggered by deaths of both parents and taking care of his wife who died of Lou Gehrig’s disease. Writing poetry helped Ed to distill his experience down to its essence. …

Spiritual Care to Elderly and Dying Loved Ones is now available. Using over a decade of experience as a spiritual and bereavement counselor, author Kevin Quiles, M.Div. — who is an Open to Hope contributing …

Guest: Kim Mooney
Kim Mooney is the Director of Community Education for HospiceCare of Boulder and Broomfield Counties. Kim has provided grief services to families with both expected and unexpected losses for 17 years.  Her own …

“I couldn’t care less.”  That’s how I felt in the months and years after I lost my 17-year old son, Michael.  I felt like the life was taken out of me.  I was stripped down …

Before my husband Phil died, I could have easily created a long list of my personal beliefs. This list would have included ideas about both the tangible and the intangible; broad concepts and specific ideals; …

Many who grieve find it difficult to express how they are feeling. As time passes, the opportunity to talk about their deceased loved one becomes less frequent whilst inside them the need to talk continues. Finding …

Have you ever had an experience where you said, “Wow, what a coincidence.”  Maybe it was more.  Maybe it was actually a “synchronicity.” Let me explain through a Jungian perspective.
Carl Jung, the prominent Swiss psychiatrist, …

Over the years, my experience around Valentine’s Day has softened and shifted focus.
The first year after my husband’s death, I wanted to crawl in a hole the minute I saw that first red and pink …

Last month, my husband and I went to a holiday party. We enjoyed the food, piano music, and visiting with friends. As we prepared to leave, a friend asked what I was doing these days. …

What can be said about the meaning of anger; and what role does anger play in our eventual recovery from grief?
We know that, as humans, we are capable of experiencing a full range of feelings, …

I often use visualisation when working with my clients. I talk with them about the feelings that they are holding in, feel unable to share, or in some cases feel pressure either spoken or unspoken …

“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the …

The passing of a loved one can mark a difficult crossroads. Those of us left behind often feel confused, fearful, sad, and even incomplete. In the midst of this grief, some experience dreams where a …