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Refilling The Hole of Loss

Posted on January 15, 2007 - by admin

The truth of celebration is there often is a bittersweet element to it. Someone may be missing this year in the celebration. The last Christmas my family had with my […]

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Dear Friend of GriefWorks,

Posted on January 14, 2007 - by admin

Dear Friend of GriefWorks, As the New Year gets underway, I want to remind you that GriefWorks is offering a six-week “Family Night Series” from 6:15-8:15 p.m., beginning January 18. […]

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For Widows Only — Three Secret Things To Guide You

Posted on January 14, 2007 - by

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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For Widows Only — Three Secret Things To Guide You

Posted on January 14, 2007 - by admin

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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For Widows Only — Three Secret Things To Guide You

Posted on January 14, 2007 - by Linda Della-Donna

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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For Widows Only — What I’ve Learned

Posted on January 13, 2007 - by Linda Della-Donna

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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LOSS: The Time Sequences of Grief: Moving Through Loss

Posted on January 13, 2007 - by Gloria Lintermans

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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For the Newly Widowed:Top Ten Tacky Things People Will Say to You and Ten Ways You Can React to Them

Posted on January 12, 2007 - by

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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For the Newly Widowed:Top Ten Tacky Things People Will Say to You and Ten Ways You Can React to Them

Posted on January 12, 2007 - by Linda Della-Donna

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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Byron Katie, Author, Speaker, Joins Healing the Grieving Heart National Radio Show January 11th

Posted on January 11, 2007 - by admin

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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