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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 […]
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After my husband died, I trashed my writing — Journals — An accumulation of spiral bound notebooks, one for each month of each year for four years. And a YA […]
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The loss of a spouse is one of the most difficult loses we experience as your entire day-to-day life is turned upside-down. The grieving process following this loss is divided […]
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Read the top ten tacky things people will say. Practice ways to react before going out, and before you know it, each new day will be filled with the sound of music and sunlight instead of your friends’ and neighbors’ tacky comments and questions.
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The funeral is over. You?ve written ten thousand checks, signed your name ten thousand times to ten thousand thank you notes, and ten thousand times you wished you were dead. […]
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Time Magazine ?100 Innovators: The Next Wave? Byron Katie to be interviewed by ?Healing the Grieving Heart? Hosts, Drs. Gloria and Heidi Horsley on January 11th, 2007. New York, New […]
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1) Share your memories with friends and family and get them to share theirs too. You may learn things that you didn’t know about your loved one. 2) Leave memorial […]
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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 […]
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My wife, Bobbie, and I, were not big fans of the cell phone in the beginning, but we did communicate at least twice a day or night. I was a swing shift worker. She was a day shifter. Earlier in our marriage, we used beepers or pagers. They could get irritating without a voice to deal with, but the price was much cheaper. Then there was the problem of finding a phone to answer the beep. But, all that’s said and done, any communication was helpful, and we were thankful for that.
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My wife, Bobbie, and I, were not big fans of the cell phone in the beginning, but we did communicate at least twice a day or night. I was a […]
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