Elizabeth Wagele

Elizabeth Wagele graduated from the University of California with honors in music and performed and taught piano. She and her husband Gus raised four children in Berkeley. She wrote "The Enneagram Made Easy," "The Enneagram of Death," "Are You My Type, Am I Yours?" "The Enneagram of Parenting," "Finding the Birthday Cake" (an Enneagram book for children 6 to 12 years old), "The Career Within You" (using the Enneagram for finding and managing your career), "The Happy Introvert," and "The Beethoven Enneagram" (a CD). Elizabeth Wagele graduated from the University of California with honors in music and performed and taught piano. She and her husband Gus raised four children in Berkeley. She wrote "The Enneagram Made Easy," "The Enneagram of Death," "Are You My Type, Am I Yours?" "The Enneagram of Parenting," "Finding the Birthday Cake" (an Enneagram book for children 6 to 12 years old), "The Career Within You" (using the Enneagram for finding and managing your career), "The Happy Introvert," and "The Beethoven Enneagram" (a CD). Find more at http://www.wagele.com.

Articles:

My Grief Process: Pain an ‘Exquisite Form of Love’

The complete version of this was written by J. J. a year after the deaths of her daughter and granddaughter. It was published in Elizabeth Wagele’s book, The Enneagram of Death and excerpted in The Career Within You blog on Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-career-within-you/201301/healing-after-terrible-loss I write to make sense of the year since the untimely death of my daughter and my 11-year-old granddaughter in a single car accident. I’ve known for a long time that life is a preparation for death. Still, I get confused and long for someone in my wandering to show me a clear path. I know the […]

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My Grief Process: Pain an ‘Exquisite Form of Love’

The complete version of this was written by J. J. a year after the deaths of her daughter and granddaughter. It was published in Elizabeth Wagele’s book, The Enneagram of Death and excerpted in The Career Within You blog on Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-career-within-you/201301/healing-after-terrible-loss I write to make sense of the year since the untimely death of my daughter and my 11-year-old granddaughter in a single car accident. I’ve known for a long time that life is a preparation for death. Still, I get confused and long for someone in my wandering to show me a clear path. I know the […]

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Telling a Child about a Death

Asking “what if” is helpful when it includes thinking things through in order to be prepared. One example is: “What if my child needs to be told some difficult news? How can I best handle the situation?” It helps to deliver bad news slowly and sensitively. Children appreciate adults being honest with them. When you withhold from them, they feel rejected. When Marvin was eleven, his sister suddenly wasn’t there. No one in his family said anything about what had happened to her. He started to have terrible nightmares about her, trouble sleeping, and barely made it through school. When […]

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Death Cafés: Comfortable Places to Talk about Death

Death as a topic for discussion has appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, “Passing Thoughts at L.A.’s first Death Café,” and the New York Times in recent months. Both articles were on the international Death Café movement, where people get together to exchange their various ideas about death. Many of the participants feel more comfortable talking about death after attending the meetings. Not only that, but when they talk about it, death seems less frightening. With less fear of death, people can hopefully focus on living their lives more fully. Paula Span’s article in the NY […]

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