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New topic: Hold Grief Accountable
...finding a way to celebrate through our own actions the lives of our loved ones, to make their LIVES matter more to us than their death.
Unevenly Imperfect
Someone forgot to tell us how complex and unsmoothly we are made. How the high expectations we have of ourselves and others, lead to anxiety and depression. Imagine every time we..
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If only we were told from the start that we were imperfect.
That we could not strike the right cord unless we tried many times.
If only we knew that we were made unevenly.
With brush strokes that were coming from darkness, in the middle of empty space.
If only we knew we were never meant to get anything right the first, second or third time.
May…
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Grieving The Distortion of our "Normal Life" and Moving Forward
Grieving The Distortion of our “Normal Life” and Moving Forward
The coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe has not only left many anxious about life and death issues, it’s also left people struggling with a host of less obvious, existential losses as they heed stay-home warnings and wonder how bad all of this is going to get.
Will life ever return to “normal?”
To weather these uncertain times, it’s important to acknowledge and grieve lost routines,…
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Feeling Grief not from Death. CoronaVirus
Kessler is the world’s foremost expert on grief. He co-wrote with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief through the Five Stages of Loss. His new book adds another stage to the process, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. Kessler also has worked for a decade in a three-hospital system in Los Angeles. He served on their biohazards team. His volunteer…
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4 Truths That Are Normal & OK To Feel - Widow/Widower
The funeral pre-paid and arrangements pre-decided. All of the legal papers drawn up. But even if your spouse lingers in hospice, you can never truly be ready.
Becoming a widow/er is not something you can prepare for before it happens. You can have all your ducks in a row. The funeral pre-paid and arrangements pre-decided. All of the legal papers drawn up. But even if your spouse lingers in hospice, you can never truly be ready. It won’t become real until they take their final breath. And even then, it doesn’t completely sink in for a while. Instead, it…
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Death is so much greater than "I'm sorry for your loss."
Death is so much greater than " I'm sorry for your loss."
Why do we consider death to be a loss?
When someone dies, we haven’t lost them. Death is so much greater than loss. It is a reorganizing of life’s framework. It involves brutal emotions with no option for escape. How can we possibly think that “I’m sorry for your loss” could come close to covering that?
Grief has been much researched and thoroughly defined. We have tried to conceptualize…
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After-loss Creed
FROM “PLEASE BE GENTLE: AN AFTERLOSS CREED,” BY JILL ENGLAR
Please be gentle with me, for I am grieving. The sea I swim in is a lonely one and the shore seems miles away. Waves of despair numb my soul as I struggle through each day. My heart is heavy with sorrow. I want to shout and scream and repeatedly ask, “Why?” At times, my grief overwhelms me and I weep bitterly, so great is my…
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LOSING A LOVED ONE IS HELL
LOSING A LOVED ONE IS HELL
So stop telling us to “get over it”.
** This post goes out to my childhood friend Sherri Poole-Bennet and my new found friend Krystle Prince Tanner. Sherri has lost both her parents and Krystle lost her father a year ago this Christmas. This is meant to inspire them, encourage them and remind them that they are not alone. Grief is unique. Don’t allow others to speak on time to heal. To reach…
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A Simple Answer
What happens when we die?
……….”I know the ones who love us will miss us.”
~Keanu Reeves (Late Show w/ Stephen Colbert)
https://www.facebook.com/griefforward
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COPE.
I used the word “COPE” today in reference to being overwhelmed with the normal (my “new normal”) occurrences when “life happens”. So, to the dictionary I went… Okay, so GOOGLE’s my dictionary. I was going to find out what we are told the word means and how it is appropriately used.
After what seemed like a loosed lipped reference, I said the word out loud a few times. “COPE”, “COPE”, “COPE”.
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Note to self and others on Valentine's Day
Note to self and others on Valentine’s Day
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are.)
But that’s not what I actually need.
What I actually need is for someone to tell me that it is still hurts because it matters. It will ALWAYS MATTER.
I have found this very useful to think about…
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Understanding Widow Fog Pt III
Understanding Widow Fog Pt III
The following article is reproduced with the very kind permission of widower, Corey Standford, who is also an Executive Coach & Wellness Author. The article first appeared on his website Stanford Coaching on October 16th, 2014.
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Understanding Widow Fog Part III: Cognitive Change
This is the third and final segment in a three-part series about Widow…
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Understanding Widow Fog - Pt. 2
Understanding Widow Fog – Pt. 2
This article is reproduced with the very kind permission of widower, Corey Standford, who is also an Executive Coach & Wellness Author. The article first appeared on his website on October 16th, 2014. Understanding Widow Fog by Corey Stanford Part II: Emotional Regulation and Clarity
In Part I: The Problem, I described Widow Fog and its underlying cause. This article builds on Part I…
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Understanding Widow Fog Pt. 1
Widows and widowers experience a phenomenon called Widow Fog that begins with the loss of your spouse and can vary in duration and ...
The following article is reproduced with the very kind permission of widower, Corey Standford, who is also an Executive Coach & Wellness Author. The article first appeared on his website Stanford Coaching on October 16th, 2014.
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Understanding Widow Fog by Corey Stanford
Part I: The Problem
This is the first in a series of brief articles written for my fellow widows and widowers…
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Falling Out of Love with the Pain
Falling Out of Love with the Pain. Change is painful. Whether you decide
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