Grief can make us feel less but when we are ready, it can also become an opportunity for us to become more: This meeting and […]
Hope, Healing and Wellness – Some “Zen of Grief”
In a very general way, our grief journeys include three very loosely defined places. These are not “stages of grief” that we have to go […]
Sadness and Happiness
Emotions: Emotions seem to be such slippery things sometimes. Especially while we are grieving, they are often much larger and occupy much more space within […]
Finding Our Way into the Next Part of Our Life…
Making our way through the fog: For many of us, as we’ve talked about before, the beginning of our grief journey happens in a fog. […]
Waves of Grief
Waves of Grief: Waves of Grief is a powerful image for not only grief but also for the healing process and for ways of coming […]
Guilt and Anger
Guilt: Guilt seems to start to show up in our thoughts when we begin to think about life without our loved ones in some way. […]
We Are Not Our Grief, We Are Grieving
The discussions in the next few posts will contain definitions of some common terms we use in talking about grief and some ways of thinking […]
Looping, Forgiveness and Change
Today’s main topic looks at some ways of thinking that we may find in ourselves throughout our grief journeys. It also looks at what we […]
Resistance, Hiding or Surrender
Some ideas to consider as you make or begin to make choices about how you want your grief and healing journeys to unfold: Definitions: Resistance: […]
Things People Say
Many people really don’t know what to say to a bereaved person. Often, because they don’t really know what to say or do, there may […]