I love Dancing with the Stars. I love watching unskilled dancers learn, grow and master dance. I even got a kick out of Bristol Palin though I was appalled when she won over Brandy. But right now I have a serious gripe that has nothing to do with Bristol. What appalls me is that Jennifer [...]
Last week I read two books I found rather appalling. Though supposedly about grief, neither of these books will be of any help whatsoever to people who are actually grieving. In fact they will likely do more harm than good. Though The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About [...]
Here’s another in the video series on surviving grief. This one’s on the stages of grief. More accurately it’s about how Elisabeth Kübler-Ross got it so horribly wrong, and why we need to stop perpetuating this myth of the 5 stages of grief. I am posting new videos every day or 2 (at least for [...]
The first in a video series on grief…
In the last post I wrote about acknowledging and even embracing your grief. I can feel people recoiling as I write that. The biggest argument I hear is “If I give into it, it may never stop.” It can certainly feel that way and yet, the exact opposite is true…when you give into it, the [...]
Lovely story of the first Christmas following the death of a husband and father. What a wonderful idea for all of us to remember, honor and celebrate the life of someone we love who is no longer physically present to us. This truly has the power to transform that dreaded first Christmas (or second, third [...]
by Joan Hitchens of Storybooks for Healing Are you ready for the holidays? How often have you heard this question in the past week? The implied reference is “have your bought all the presents for family and friends for Christmas? Have you done the shopping, baked the goodies and decorated the house? You may not [...]
Grief is a hot topic these days. Every newspaper and blog seems to have advice on how to get through the holidays. Where are they the rest of the year? Rather than add to the noise, I’ve scoured the web to share some of the better articles and lists on dealing with grief during the [...]
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 [...]
Grief support groups are without a doubt the single most effective healing mechanism available to people who are grieving, but how do you evaluate the people running a group? I suspect that many people don’t seek out grief support, because they have no idea how to evaluate the expertise of the facilitators. As comforting as [...]
