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Pet Loss - 10 Tips to Help Soothe Heartbreak |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:50 |
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Grief has its own rhythms and goes up, down and all around. Grief does not have a neat time schedule and it rears up sometimes when you least expect it. Sometimes it shows up months or even years later. Taking time to veg out, cry, write, talk... whatever you need do to help your heart and to honor the memory of your animal is all important. Take the time you need. Read more: |
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The Bachelorette - A Lesson in Grieving to Open Your Heart to Love |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 15:49 |
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I am a writer, speaker and guide on the subject of grief transformation. I have radar when I observe conversations and I look for the gems of grieving and healing. Read more: |
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Grief and Loss - Exploring Death After Bereavement |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:46 |
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Loss forces us to look upon the big question of what happens after death. In our modern society, with death carefully hidden from us and the quest of eternal youth predominant, we are badly equipped to deal with it when it happens. All of us have had the experience of losing a loved one and of people turning away from us, scared to acknowledge our loss. Read more: |
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Grief and Loss - Understanding the Nature of Time |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:08 |
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Time is a very complex thing. Understand how time is can be non-linear following bereavement. Read more: |
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Grief and Loss - Learning From Nature |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:03 |
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Grief is a natural response to the loss of something so where better to look for understanding about grief and loss than to nature itself? If we look at the four seasons we can gain understanding about how grief affects us and how we can support ourselves as we move through our own seasons of grief. Read more: |
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Grief Transformation - How to Open to Feelings of Grief |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 12:37 |
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Grief surfaces at predictable and unpredictable times. Revisiting the same feelings is normal. Learning how to respect the feelings when they appear and creating the time and space to feel is important. I had an unexpected moment of grieving remembering the death of my son, Cooper. It was June 12th and would have been my son's 17th birthday. He had died 15 years earlier from a 4th stage neuro-blastoma cancer at the age of 19 months. I have included a list of things I do to support a safe environment to embrace the emotion when it appears for more healing. Read more: |
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Grief and Loss - Why We Need Other People |
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:52 |
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When we experience loss we immediately turn to our friends and family, expecting them to be able to help us. All too often, we are left disappointed. Friends don't know what to say and can find it difficult to be around us. Read more: |
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Grief and Loss - The Role of Spirituality |
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:24 |
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Creating or strengthening our spirituality can have untold beneficial effects upon us after loss. By spirituality I do not mean religion. The two are very separate. Read more: |
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Grief Transformation - Honor Your Feelings |
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 15:31 |
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You can stand in the rain and get wet or you can let the rain into your heart and soul. Your feelings are there for a reason. Read more: |
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Bereavement - Exploring the Positive Emotions |
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:05 |
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Loss throws us into a world of unknown emotions. Some of which we maybe had never experienced before. Understanding these emotions can be a key factor in transforming through loss. Yet it can be hard to accept some feelings. Read more: |
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Loss and Grief - Understanding Its Nature |
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 12:33 |
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In one moment all that we hold dear and cherish is shattered, never to be the same. We are left floundering in a pit of uncertainty. We drown as wave after wave of unknown and unexpected emotions wash over us. In that moment, we cannot see the path forward, there is no light shining for us that guides us through this. We have to rely on ourselves and we are woefully unequipped. Read more: |
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Grief and the Realities of Life |
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 09:18 |
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In the past few months, several of my friends have lost parents or spouses due to age and/or illness. Some were anticipated, others were not. But each passing left a big impact on those left behind. Read more: |
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Laughter - Your Personal Prescription For Grief Recovery |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 13:20 |
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Grief is a process, a dark tunnel of feelings and responses. In the early stages of grief you may feel like you will never laugh again. This article, by a grandmother who lost four loved ones in a short time, describes the physical and mental benefits of laughter. Read more: |
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Transitions - Moving Through Grief |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 11:59 |
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Loss! Nothing we do can stop the process. We call out to God, and lean on the helping hands around us. And somehow, we survive it, and the new self we are struggling to breathe life into, emerges. Read more: |
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Grief - Help to Move Through it, Understand it and Cope |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 09:37 |
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Has Grief ruined your life? Have you become stuck in a time or a moment and just can't move on, can't function, can't find reasons to go on? You are not alone in your grief. But what if as you grieve, so do your loved ones who have passed over? Who care deeply for you, who may feel guilty for all they did to you, who may be wanting to continue their journey but like you are stuck... Read more: |
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