When Ed Gray’s wife died of Lou Gehrig disease he was faced with becoming a widower, hear how he went on to find hope and meaning.
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Tags: anger, Depression, grief, hope, radio
Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley
Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley are a mother/daughter team and internationally recognized grief experts. They are the founders of The Open to Hope Foundation and the hosts of The Open to Hope Show. In addition, Dr. Gloria is a board member for The Compassionate Friends and Dr. Heidi is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and has a private practice in manhattan. Their message is that others have made it through the grief journey and so can you, if you do not yet have hope lean on theirs.
My sister-in-law sent me info on your radio/website, etc. She was my deceased wife’s sister.
My wife died on Dec 15, 2006 while waiting for a liver transplant at Tulane Hospital in New Orleans. We had two children, a son and daughter,now grown (28 and 27, respectively), successful and happily married.
I went through a ‘Grief Recovery” program with a Navy Chaplain in Gulfport, MS beginning about 2 months after my wife died. It was very helpful but after several other losses over the years and having two bouts of cancer (Transitional Cell Carcinoma and Prostate – one kidney and prostate surgically removed) I still struggle with many of the empty feelings that were very prevalent after my wife died.
In 2011, I joined a 10 week session with a grief group. Since being a participant for that first 10 weeks, I have helped as a facilitator for three of these grief recovery groups per year. We use the “Grief Recovery Handbook” process and I think it is a very good resource. This has helped me work with my grief and I believe my experiences in my grieving translates to helping others move thru the process and look forward to something in their future.
I have just today began listening to your radio sessions on the website; Ed Gray’s) one today about “Men in Grief”. My process of moving forward has been reading, traveling to see friends and most of all practicing Yoga. I am now a registered Yoga Teacher (200RYT) by the “Yoga Alliance”, having completed a one year/one weekend per month training program in 2013. I am currently teach a weekly Men’s Basic Yoga Class in Bay St. Louis MS.
I retired from my full-time career as an Oceanographer in 2007 but have remained working part-time in that field as a consultant.
Thank you for the work you do;
Respectfully,
Don Walter/Oceanographer/200RYT