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You're Not Alone: Bargaining and Jell-O

You’re Not Alone: Bargaining and Jell-O

Column by Linda R. Jones Counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and members of the clergy tend to agree it takes a year to “recover” from the death of a parent and you will go through five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.  I don’t think you recover because the pain will still be there, but it’s supposed to be a dull pain.  This is the first time in my…

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You're Not Alone: The pain of losing your parent

You’re Not Alone: The pain of losing your parent

  Column by Linda R. Jones I was the ordinary adult American.  Hustling and bustling through life, working but not the work that makes a difference in humanity, playing, and I thought I never had enough time or money to enjoy and appreciate life. On March 2, 2015, my father died and my ordinary world imploded.  He was my first close loss.  I never knew my biological mother and my stepmother was…

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