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Sheila Allen is a divorced mother of three, working to make ends meet and receiving only the occasional support from her ex-husband to keep her kids feed, clothed, and a roof over ...

Hospice patients come to our care after being cut, burned, and poisoned. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment are the normative methods of care for most of the patients w...

Meaning affects everything we do; and equally important it affects the body and its physiology as attested to by the many examples of body-mind relationships, such as the placebo e...

Beloved Ones, the passage into death is not one to be feared, but one that signals the completion of one phase of life so that another can begin. For in truth, there is no such thi...

Everyone has to deal with the death of a loved at various times throughout life. It is one of the conditions that is commonly faced without training or education. The loss of a...

Grief is an integral part of life and living. Everyone grieves, although not everyone mourns. That is, not everyone goes public with their grief. They have been taught to keep it t...

There are babies everywhere in my life. Number of pregnant friends: 3. Number of friends who have given birth this year: 3. Number of babies born to friends to date: 14. Number ...

My youngest daughter recently lost her 2 1/2-month-old baby boy to what doctors assume to have been SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). He just went to sleep and stopped breathing...

Imagine a gruesome physical injury. Dripping blood, internal organs exposed on a human body. Now imagine that it is your body. There is a strong natural reluctance to looking a...

Something toxic is festering inside you. Chronic pain and sadness that has been hurting for so long that you have subconsciously blocked it out. The toxicity continues to eat u...

Holding grudges makes a person bitter. Most of the time, grudges are born out of anger and hurt. They are the negative feelings one carries even when the hurting incident or conver...

Dealing with loss or trauma can be especially difficult for those who suffer from bipolar disorder. Not only are they trying to cope with the traumatic experience, but they are als...

Death ends a life but not a relationship. So have you ever wondered how you can keep the memory of your loved one alive? Or, how can you establish a new and stronger relationship w...

The death of a loved one and the grief that follows teach many lessons. Perhaps the most important one is that pain is the sign to take a new road in life. This is a double barrele...

Beliefs engrained in us early in life by well-meaning adults, through their behavior and comments, become the gospel of our adult lives, and furthermore, indelibly stamped in our c...

Grief and Worry: We all know of individuals who were so grief stricken at the death of a loved one they also died a short time later. Just a year ago,I experienced such a situation...

Grief and grieving is inevitable because we choose to love. And it can be argued that it lingers on and on because we refuse to learn to love in separation and complete a primary t...

There are many factors involved in how a person adapts to the death of a loved one. They range from the meaning of the loss and previous loss experiences to the way the loved one d...

Multiple loss experiences pervade every life. They demand an inordinate amount of time and emotional energy in order to cope with the massive changes imposed. Yet, there are many w...

Grief is a natural response to the loss of something valued. Myths are falsehoods parading as gospel truths. Combined they lead to much excessive emotional and physical pain when m...

Cremation today is becoming increasingly popular. The number of people choosing incinerations has increased significantly over the past few years. Statistics show that in the Unite...

CHILDREN AND DEATH When explaining cremation to a child and the death of a beloved family member it's important for parents to know that this experience has a profound impact no...

You know in your heart that nothing ever stays the same. People change, lives change, situations and worlds change. The trouble with change is that you can feel insecure and wit...

Not infrequently, death occurs and surviving family members and friends do not have the opportunity to say goodbye to the loved one who died. Fatal automobile accidents and heart a...

We need each other, especially in times of distress. And it is important never to forget that human interaction is the very essence of living a happy life. The positive result of t...

Unknown to the general public as well as the mass media, millions of people mourning the death of a loved one have an experience in which they are convinced they have received a si...

Sorrow and pain manifest when we are unaware of certain underlying realities. Maharshi Vasishtha while explaining to Lord Rama the cause of sorrow says that it is spiritual ignoran...

Benjamin Franklin once said, "In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. At least now, thanks to the internet, death doesn?t have to be as expensive. According to AA...

The funeral or graveside service is over and someone you work with is back on the job. Is there anything you can you do to help the person in the transition he or she is facing? Pl...

I am a suicide survivor. I am also a Christian. This article explains how anyone, but especially people of faith, can survive or help others to survive the tragedy of a suicidal de...

As a psychologist I have worked with many people who were stuck in grief. They speak about losing someone with poignant emotion?as if it happened yesterday. But it happened years a...

Chances are that you grew up in a two-parent family, a mom and a dad. Went to a local school, away to college, married, had children of your own. And then, tragedy struck and your ...

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...

The unimaginable has happened; you are a widow or widower. Mourning your loss has been the focus of your life for the past year or two. Finally, as you begin to surface from your p...

The loss of a spouse is one of the most difficult loses we experience as your entire day-to-day life is turned upside-down. The grieving process following this loss is divided into...

The pain of grieving is there for all losses, whether spouse or lover. A partnership transcends labels and roles and one?s partner is primary when a strong bond exists. Regardless ...

The mental fog that had sheltered me emotionally during those first four months after my husband?s death is slowly, and painfully, beginning to clear. Coincidently, this occurs jus...

Loss is a fact of life. Yet, following loss, their needs to be a healthy healing, a healing that allows life not only to simply continue, but with joy and determination. What are t...

Headstones corrode, statues are weathered and plaques tarnish. Memorials in some shape or form have been around for centuries, but none have been able to stand the test of time, un...

Everyone that is born on this planet suffers some kind of trials, problems, and issues in their life. One of the greatest things about humans is that we are capable of experiencing...

Do you ever ponder the meaning of life? Why are we here? Perhaps these questions surface when we receive news we'd rather not receive, the passing of an uncle, a beloved aunt, a fr...

You may envision going out to a beautiful spot and scattering your loved ones remains. While this can be a beautiful, ceremonial and a very healing way of returning a loved one to ...

Flowers have been displayed at the time of one's passing in nearly every culture throughout time, and their importance continues today. At funerals, wakes, memorials, and cremation...

Below you will find many memorial and remembrance ideas that you can use to keep the memory of your loved one alive. After the funeral, memorial service or life celebration many pe...

If you ask most people why they have not achieved their goals or the level of success they desire, they will usually respond with some built-in excuse (negative belief) that is hol...

Often times when a relationship ends there are things left unsaid and questions left unanswered. Through the use of this technique you can resolve these issues and allow yourself t...

Have you ever lost someone close to you to death? We go through a grief process that was best described by Elizabeth Kublar-Ross in On Death and Dying. In it she talks about the fi...

There is so much emphasis on emotional intelligence these days that it appears that people are suppressing their emotions and problems in an effort to "fit in," to keep their jobs,...

With less than twenty four hours to go before hurricane Katrina hit land my wife and I started to pack up the car to leave St Bernard Parish Louisiana. We had to have the brakes re...

We all know that it is in one?s highest good to grieve the loss of a relationship. Healthy grief releases feelings rather than allowing them to get stuck in the body. Healthy grief...

Introduction: Releasing Sadness Note: This article is part 2 of a series of releasing repressed emotions articles. The first dealt with anger. Some statements are relevant to...

Needless to say, the time after loss is volatile and confusing for most people. Unresolved issues come to the fore and questions we have not answered must often be confronted. Alon...

Many years ago, when I started my psychiatric training in Europe, I realized that mental illnesses happen to those people who are not allowed to work through their emotional issues...

Our 14 year old golden retriever, Rudy, died today. My wife, Pam, and I are grief stricken. Rudy was with us for more than half our married life. He was our hiking partner, our com...

A friend asked me, "What is grief, exactly?" I gave him the simple answer: "Grief is the natural response of a body and mind to a traumatic loss." But, I realized that definition...

This article was written to answer many of the most frequently asked questions on this topic. I hope you find all of this information helpful. When you are getting ready to bu...

BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING - GRIEF THERAPY Grief therapy and biological, psychological effects on feelings in bereavement counselling Grief therapy, statistically, the...

Grief and loss is a multifaceted counselling field based on the loss of someone or something. "Grief is our response to loss, particularly the death of a loved one. Grief can affec...

Everyone is familiar with feelings of grief. These feelings range from mild, momentary unhappiness to feelings of intense and acute emotional suffering that take a long time to he...

According to Webster's New World Dictionary grief is defined as "intense emotional suffering caused by loss, disaster, misfortune, etc.; acute sorrow; deep sadness." Mourning is t...

When Lorelle and I first wrote this grief devotional, Mourning Glory, the world of grief, as well as the world at large, seemed much smaller. We had not been through 9/11, the war ...

Elizabeth Kubler Ross wrote about the five stages of catastrophic loss in her book," On Death and Dying". While she was speaking to the terminally ill patient, most people have fou...

Are You Making The Right Choices In Your Life? You are what you are and where you are because of countless choices that you've made during your lifetime. Each choice has an infl...

Is the pain of grief wearing you down? Are you surprised at the depth of pain you are feeling? How have others been able to persist and do their grief work? Grief work is a ...

As the loss of a loved one can be one of the greatest challenges in life and connecting to with spirit can be a life changing experience. Whether you lose a loved one, a relationsh...

In my fifteen years of helping people change their lives working with emotional distress I have learnt many new things about human life and behaviour. Many of these lessons have co...

A young boy is close to his mother. He is five years old and she is thirty years old. She is in contact with her everyday of his life. He experiences her love in many forms. The wa...

Does homework cause tension in your house? Is the sense of frustration becoming too much to take? If so, you are not alone. Everyday, I receive calls and emails from parents who ...

"Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those things for which you are angry and grieved." Marcus Antonius Emotions are feelings in motion. ...

As the loss of a loved one can be one of the greatest challenges in life and connecting to with spirit can be a life changing experience. Whether you lose a loved one, a relation...