I’ve been living without my wife for seven months now. I’ve had to adjust to a great many things, but the most trying has been my struggle with my faith over that time. I’ve been …

Father’s Day in 2007 was one of the real highlights of the relationship I had with my dad.  Mom had died in May, 2007. Dad was wearing out (he was 94), but hung on until …

On my commute to work this morning (by which I mean my walk down to my basement office), I started wondering about something that seems to be a common theme with all of us widows:  …

This is the last in a 3-part series about how to talk about grief, and how to listen to others who are grieving.
The following is advice for those who are willing to try to …

Walk alone and you will find
Memories of yesterday
Can destroy your mind.
Visions of death and despair
Continue to surface
Leaving you with fear.
Walk alone and you will find
Friends along the way
Offering words of kind.
Fears of yesterday begin to …

There’s the joke about the cemetery. “How many dead people are in there?” The answer: “All of them.” It brought a smile to my lips the first time a ten-year-old told me. But after my …

By Nina Bennett –
I was used to fixing the problems Timothy, my youngest son, encountered when he was a child. If his older brother knocked down his castle of blocks, I helped him rebuild it. …

By – © 2009 Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT
As a hospice bereavement counselor who also specializes in pet loss, I’ve encountered in my support groups and through my Web sites many distraught animal lovers whose beloved …

2009 by Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT
As a hospice bereavement counselor who also specializes in pet loss, I’ve encountered many distraught animal lovers whose beloved dogs or cats have gone missing. These animals may have escaped …

By Pamela Prime –
Children are the most beautiful gifts and provide the most extraordinary challenges to us.? I often say to parents who are in pain that no one can hurt us as parents like …

Poet/writer Fran Dorf gives voice to the experience we often have when we see someone who looks like a loved one who has died. It’s a haunting, healing reminder of how grief works.

November 1, 2007 Dealing With the Death of a Child to Leukemia – Lisa Nehmer
November 1st, 2007 . by The Grief Blog
HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART
Dealing with the Death of a Child to Leukemia
Hosts:? Dr. Gloria …

HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART
Grieving as a Meaning-Making Process
Hosts:? Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley
With guest:? Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer
October 4, 2007
G:? ?Hello.? I?m Dr. Gloria Horsley with my co-host
H:? ?Dr. Heidi Horsley.
G:? ?Each week, …

DR. ROBERT A. NEIMEYER, Professor and Director of Psychotherapy Research in the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, where he also maintains an active clinical practice. Robert has published 20 books, including Meaning Reconstruction and …

HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART
Opening Your Heart With Yoga
Hosts:? Dr. Gloria Horsley and Rebecca Bara
With guest:? Jason Wendroff-Rawnicki
September 20, 2007
G:? ?Hello.? I?m Dr. Gloria Horsley with my co-host
R:? ?Rebecca Bara.
G:? ?Now you might surprised that you …

HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART
There Is No Rule Book: Finding Forgiveness
After the Murder of My Husband
Hosts:? Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley
With guest:? Katy Hutchison
August 30, 2007
G:? ?Hello.? I?m Dr. Gloria Horsley with my co-host
H:? …