Loss of a Family Member

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  • Alone with the Memories: When Your Only Sibling Dies

    Posted on November 5, 2024 - by S. Dione Mitchell

    Halloween When I was 9 and my sister was 12, we made the bold decision to craft The Haunted House of All Ages in our 250-square-foot living room and the […]

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  • Tools to Ease ‘Catastrophizing’

    Posted on November 4, 2024 - by Nalda Seidman

    Tools to Ease ‘Catastrophizing’ My husband and I are Digital Nomads who work remotely and travel, and for the most part, it is fun and interesting. In early grief, however, […]

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  • Does It Matter That She’s Drunk? The Grief of Alcoholism

    Posted on October 28, 2024 - by S. Dione Mitchell

    She’s Drunk “Wait! What am I supposed to be doing now?” from my mother during a board game. “So you don’t like gumbo?” […from my mother to a relative for […]

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    Finding Light in the Darkness

    Posted on October 14, 2024 - by Gloria Horsley

    Finding Light in the Darkness: A Message of Hope and Healing In times of profound struggle and emotional turmoil, it’s easy to feel isolated and overwhelmed. However, Sue Frederick, a […]

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  • Is Climate Grief Real?

    Posted on October 7, 2024 - by Linda Goldman

    Is Climate Grief Real? Although research on climate grief is in its infancy, researchers have begun to substantiate the impact of climate change on young people and their mental health. […]

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  • Re-imagining Hope After Trauma

    Posted on October 6, 2024 - by Lori Grande

    Re-imagining Hope The silent voice of trauma lies idle in the body. Years of dormancy may be followed by its unexpected impact, often on the precipice of healing.  As I […]

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  • Young People Grieving Over Multiple Losses

    Posted on September 23, 2024 - by Linda Goldman

    Young People Grieving Over Multiple Losses  A “new normal” has invaded old paradigms and left kids missing a past world, uncertain of the present, and anxious of what tomorrow will […]

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  • Young People’s Grief during the Pandemic

    Posted on September 22, 2024 - by Linda Goldman

    Young People’s Grief during the Pandemic The pandemic has produced a myriad of loss issues impossible to have imagined just a few years ago. Young people cannot go to school, […]

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  • Self-Punishment During Grief

    Posted on September 16, 2024 - by Bob Baugher

    Self-Punishment During Grief A behavior that may accompany guilt is self-punishment. This often comes from the grieving person’s need to somehow “balance the scale” of life events. When we were […]

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  • Measuring Your Guilt During Grief

    Posted on September 13, 2024 - by Bob Baugher

    Measuring Your Guilt During Grief After the death of a loved one, many of us feel guilt. Some amount of guilt is normal. But how much? Answer these questions in […]

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  • How to Deal with Guilt while Grieving

    Posted on September 11, 2024 - by Bob Baugher

    How to Deal with Guilt while Grieving If you are feeling guilt after the death of a loved one, you might try to play a small trick on your mind. […]

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  • Guilt is Unique During Bereavement

    Posted on September 9, 2024 - by Bob Baugher

    Guilt is Unique During Bereavement During bereavement, we may feel guilty. Guilt is different from shame, embarrassment, regret or anger. Here’s how: Shame is the result of an event that […]

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  • Caring for Your Spirit after a Suicide

    Posted on August 26, 2024 - by Bob Baugher

    Caring for Your Spirit after a Suicide For many people, the suicide of a loved one raises agonizing spiritual or existential issues. These include many questions such as Why does […]

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  • Feeling Guilty after a Suicide

    Posted on August 26, 2024 - by Bob Baugher

    Feeling Guilty after a Suicide When something goes terribly wrong, human beings have a natural and powerful need to make sense of what has happened. This usually includes a need […]

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  • Immediately After a Suicide: Three Things to Remember

    Posted on August 26, 2024 - by Bob Baugher

    As you begin to take in the reality of the loss of your loved one by suicide, there are three things to remember: Take Care of Yourself Right now, you […]

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  • Telling Young Children of a Suicide

    Posted on August 26, 2024 - by Bob Baugher

    Telling Young Children of a Suicide Parents are often understandably concerned about how the harsh fact of a suicide in the family, particularly of a parent, will affect their children. […]

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  • Multiple Losses Can Increase Isolation

    Posted on August 20, 2024 - by Harriet Hodgson

    Multiple Losses Can Increase Isolation “We don’t see many people these days,” my husband commented. “I know,” I answered. “It’s because of our multiple losses.” After our twin grandchildren lost […]

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  • Grieving the Loss of a Narcissist or Sociopath

    Posted on August 19, 2024 - by Mary Joye

    Grieving the Loss of a Narcissist As if grieving a loved one isn’t enough, it can become exponentially more complex when we lose someone in our lives that was narcissistic […]

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  • Where Am I in my Grief Journey?

    Posted on August 12, 2024 - by Judy Lipson

    Where am I in my Grief Journey It’s hard to believe my sister Jane is gone 43 years, and in August, my sister Margie will have been gone for 34 […]

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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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  • Finding God’s Comfort Through Loss

    Posted on May 27, 2024 - by Anne Peterson

    Finding God’s Comfort Through Loss “Just go downstairs and wait for your aunt, she’ll be here soon,” my mom said. I can hardly wait. Our aunt is taking us to […]

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  • Finding Meaning in Violent Loss

    Posted on May 13, 2024 - by Brooke Carlock

    Finding Meaning in Violent Loss When I hear about “finding meaning” in grief, I feel a knee-jerk reaction to snap back with a salty, “What possible meaning can come from […]

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  • Toxic Positivity in Grief

    Posted on May 13, 2024 - by Brooke Carlock

    Toxic Positivity in Grief When I first started devouring information about the grieving process after Libby died, I remember immediately being turned off by the overly negative messaging on social […]

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  • Are You Sabotaging Your Grief Journey?

    Posted on May 13, 2024 - by Brooke Carlock

    Are You Sabotaging Your Grief Journey? This article is going to require you to be a little bit brutal with yourself. The goal of the telling the truth principle is […]

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  • Grief Guilt

    Posted on May 13, 2024 - by Brooke Carlock

    Grief Guilt is about Loss of Control Guilt is, in my humble opinion, one of the most prevalent emotions during grief, and one that many grievers seem to come back […]

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  • Forgiveness and the Shadow of Grief

    Posted on May 6, 2024 - by Nina Norstrom

    Living Under the Shadow of Grief Now, I’m living my best life.  There was a time when I thought I could not move out of the shadow of darkness.  While […]

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  • Writing Through the Pain of an Unsolved Homicide

    Posted on May 6, 2024 - by Lori Grande

    Writing Through the Pain of an Unsolved Homicide Sometimes a sprout can push through a crack in a sidewalk.  Likewise, openings for self-empowerment and healing can grow while living with […]

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    Widow Loses Confidence after Her Loss

    Posted on April 29, 2024 - by Kathleen A. Paris

    Confidence Lost Of the many things I could not have known about grief following the death of my husband, Matt, was how worthless and inept I would feel. It made […]

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  • A Nerd’s Guide to Grief

    Posted on April 22, 2024 - by Brooke Carlock

    My Life in Grief I absolutely, freaking hate the saying “Life only gives you as much as you can handle.” If that’s the case, then just call me Atlas, baby, […]

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  • Unsolved Homicides May Destabilize Survivors

    Posted on March 25, 2024 - by Lori Grande

    Unsolved Homicides Destabilize Many Lives Homicide is a complicated loss, and its reflection resides in a constant state of metamorphosis with each new experience that follows in its wake.  In […]

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  • The Invisibility of Grief

    Posted on February 26, 2024 - by S. Dione Mitchell

    The Visibility of Change My children are tweens/teens. When I think about their development throughout the years, it is clear and tangible to me the ways in which they have […]

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