By Patricia Nordman
The phone rang. How glad I was to hear my oldest son’s voice. “Mom, I’d like to bring Debbie home for the Christmas holidays. Will that be all right?”
“Of course,” I replied, thrilled. “When will you be here?”
“Friday afternoon. Mom, I feel a lot better.”
“O Chuck, I’m so glad! We’ll have everything ready [...]
By Robert Moment
Grief is a part of the healing process when you have experienced any kind of loss. Getting past that grief, whether it is over the loss of a loved one, a relationship or a job, and moving on with your life may leave you feeling like a stranger in a strange land. The [...]
By Cindy Kludt
When someone says something to me and “hurts my feelings”, I am BEING a person who has hurt feelings. The hurt feeling seems automatic to us and most of us think that we don’t have any control over the emotion that is felt. When we can identify WHERE the emotion came from–like when [...]
By Lou LaGrand
Has someone you trust told you a secret about your deceased loved one that has added immeasurably to your grief? Where you going through his/her papers and found some information about the past that has stunned you? Has evidence of physical or emotional infidelity turned up upon reading old emails?
It is not unusual [...]
By Sandy Clendenen
Sometimes life seems to become a giant “to do” list. The goal of our days becomes the exercise of checking items off our list. When grief is involved, the frustration can seem overwhelming. Grief is not easily checked off the list.
Getting through each day can become the goal of each day for those [...]
By Gloria Lintermans
At this point, widowed for about 18 months, I met Hal the night I attended my last “bereavement support group” meeting. I was instantly attracted to his energy. We seemed to have a lot in common, both professionally and emotionally. I gave him my business card with the knowing feeling that he would [...]
By Annette Gonzalez
Grieving in the thesaurus is defined as brokenhearted, mournful, anguished, sorrowful or inconsolable. All of these words defined me when both of my parents died. I did not know how I could deal with the grief I was feeling. I was afraid to deal with the grief.
To say grieving is a difficult process [...]
By Annette Gonzalez
In the old country, in the rural mountains of northern Spain, called Asturias, where my ancestors lived, when a husband died the wife wore black clothes for the rest of her life. The mourning clothes were called “ropa de luto” (Spanish). The wife’s purpose in life after her spouse died was to grieve, [...]
By Angela Chen Shui
A friend of mine was found murdered last week. I heard about it last night but felt his spirit around over the past two weeks without understanding why.
Last night after hearing of his death, and remembering my recent memories of him, I blessed his spirit, encouraged him to let his death [...]
By Maurice Turmel Ph.D.
What is it about Grief & Loss that upsets us so much? Is it the heavy duty emoting that we have to do to get through our suffering? Is it the fear we have about opening ourselves to all this pain? Because, let’s face it, it’s hard down there, in the land [...]