With the passing of Elizabeth Edwards last week, a part of me has little sympathy for John Edwards. After all he cheated on her when she needed him most. They were on the verge of divorce. He fathered a child with another woman. Hard to have sympathy for that, and yet… Of all her close [...]
As I was walking on the beach the other day, I got to thinking. It seems so odd that as more and more research emerges about grief, cultural support for people who are grieving seems to be at an all time low. Grief wasn’t studied much before Elisabeth Kübler-Ross proposed the 5 stages of grief [...]
In Western culture, death and grieving are often seen as something to be avoided. We’re certainly not supposed to fall apart. Wrong.
Sometimes we just need to fall apart and it doesn’t need to be “treated”. Sometimes it simply needs to be witnessed and acknowledged.
