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Sep 3, 2010
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Understanding Grief
- Change, Change, and More Change
By Sherry Williams
When a death occurs, people’s lives are touched by change in many ways. They are forced to face a world without the presence of someone who has been an important part of their lives. They may have to do things they have never had to do before. It is normal for them to feel out of control. It may even seem that all of their reality has changed and like things are moving too fast.
Change, just like death is the one part of life that is certain.
- The Crazies
By Dick Gilbert
It was a terribly hot Saturday when we gathered for our Houston conference. The hotel was “air-conditioned cold,” and whenever I went outside, the heat was so oppressive that my glasses fogged up.
I fogged up.
- A carrot, and egg, and some coffee beans
By Andi Landis
A young woman had suffered a great loss and asked her mother what life was all about. She told her mom that she was tired of fi ghting and struggling and didn’t know if she was going to make it. It seemed that all kinds of things were triggering her grief and reminding her of her loss, and she just felt like she wanted to give up.
Her mother took her into the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed an egg, and in the third she paced coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word.
- Drawing on experience
By Excerpted from The Grief Recovery Notebook by Sandra L. Graves, Ph.D
Here’s a simple, practical exercise to help you understand what emotions you are most comfortable with and which emotions you might be feeling most often as you grieve. If they are not the same – and chances are, they are not – this will help you to understand some of the added confl ict you may be feeling in the wake of uncomfortable emotions.
- On the journey to healing
Embracing the ten essential touchstones
By Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
John Muir
I recently wrote a book called Understanding Your Grief. Indeed, one of the most important things I do in my ministry to grieving people is provide information that helps them (and you!) integrate loss into their lives. ...
- The power within
By Paul Alexander
Personal crisis and loss affect us on physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional levels. As we face our losses, many difficult emotions such as anger, guilt, depression, and tension can drain us and rob us of our depression, and tension can drain us and rob us of our power. Even when life is going well, these feelings are uncomfortable. When these feelings are experienced in the context of a major loss, we need to give ourselves time and permission to express and release the power of these emotional responses.
- Living in the Moment
By Deb Kosmer
Living in the moment may sound like good advice; a reminder that when we live in the past or put our life on hold until some hoped for future, we may miss the beauty and the magic of today. However, what about when there is no magic and we can't see the beauty because our eyes are blinded by tears or our heart is so full of anger and despair. Where do we live then?
- Do You Ever Get Over It?
By Brenda Layman
The voice of the woman on the phone was rough, revealing the jagged edges of her pain. “Do you ever get over it?” she asked me.
“No,” I answered her honestly. “I don’t think you ever get over it. Does it stop hurting so much, and hurting all...
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