Tell Your Grief Story
Posted on July 22, 2024 - by Brooke Carlock
Tell Your Grief Story Telling your grief story is an insanely powerful way to process your emotions. At first, friends and family want to hear the story, and we tell […]
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The Tension between Recent Loss and Future Vision
Posted on July 17, 2024 - by Mark Bodnarczuk
May 16, 2024, would have been my son Thomas’s twenty-second birthday. But instead of candles on a chocolate cake that my wife Elin has baked – Thomas’s favorite – we […]
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Moving Through Spontaneous Moments of Grief
Posted on July 1, 2024 - by Bradie Hansen
Spontaneous Moments of Grief Soon after my father died, I was in a restaurant with a good friend and our daughters. We were on a trip that we had planned […]
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Dating During Widowhood: Am I Being Disloyal?
Posted on June 24, 2024 - by Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Frank Powers
Dating During Widowhood We often hear widows and widowers say, “I had such a wonderful partner that I could never be with another person.” Friends and family members who are […]
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How Long Should Grief Last?
Posted on June 17, 2024 - by Emily Threatt
How Long Should Grief Last? I was shocked one day when a friend of mine told me his employer spoke harshly to him after he returned from the three-day bereavement […]
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Grief is Healthy
Posted on June 17, 2024 - by Emily Threatt
Grief is Healthy Grief is a healthy response. Being sad and remembering things you don’t want to can bring up tears and heartache, but things have to come up to […]
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My Father’s Conscious Dying
Posted on June 10, 2024 - by Julie Nierenberg
My Father’s Conscious Living As Father’s Day approaches, memories bubble up of my beloved dad. I grew up feeling valued by him, and as a kid, I was always willing […]
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Self-Care in Grief: Woman in a Blue Padded Folding Chair
Posted on June 10, 2024 - by Anne Abel
Woman In A Blue Padded Folding Chair Stop. Breathe. Be. Inhale. Exhale. Wait. I’m sitting in a blue padded folding chair in the basement of a church trying to learn […]
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Grief During Chronic Illness
Posted on June 4, 2024 - by Melanie Pensak
Grief During Chronic Illness I remember when I started to hear the word “chronic” from the mouths of people that were involved in my health. I recall the acupuncturist who […]
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When God Leads You to a Parent’s Deathbed
Posted on May 27, 2024 - by Anne Peterson
I got used to living a fatherless life, even before he died. When I thought about him, it was always followed by guilt, and then I would actually stutter. It […]
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