How Can You Sit There and Complain? It’s your first day back whether that’s days or weeks. You are nervous about going back to work. You might be experiencing a multitude of feelings and sensations and wonder how they could be happening all at once. You can’t remember what you just read. You forget your [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Grief Loss and Bereavement’
Empowered Grieving
Posted in BlogTalkRadio, End-of-Life, tagged grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, health, mental health, Support Groups on February 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Presence and Support
Posted in End-of-Life, tagged death, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, health, mental health on February 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In Kubler-Ross’ book On Death and Dying, she wrote, that when someone dies at home, there is the “comfort of shared responsibility and shared mourning. It prepares them gradually and helps them view death as part of life, an experience which may help them grow and mature”. I’m not a big fan of what we [...]
Michael’s Words
Posted in Poetry, tagged Grief Loss and Bereavement on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Why is it that a dying man can say I love you and we cannot even think of those words every day? How can we feel this very emotion when we so numbed to everything? I hear Michael’s words over and over again like the songs of angels. May his words keep [...]
Meeting an Impasse
Posted in Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged Alternative, breathing, Buddhism, end-of-life, Grief Loss and Bereavement, health, meditation, relationships, Religion and Spirituality, spirituality on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Gentle Meditation Although we are not often taught this, the most skillful way through an impasse in meditation is to become aware of it and of what holds it together and keeps it running. To do this, you need to keep doing the meditation instructions that have gotten you to this point, but instead of [...]
Caring for your achy heart
Posted in Grief Theories, tagged American Heart Association, Circulation (journal), end-of-life, family, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, grieving, healing, health, hospice, inspiration, relationships, spirituality on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
According to Advancements in Bereavement, “Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, reports that research has found your risk of a heart attack is 21 times greater than normal in the day following the death of a loved one and decreases steadily during the first month.” Some say we die of a broken heart. [...]
Heal Grief Mindfully – Free Yourself From The Emotion
Posted in Reblogged, tagged coping, end-of-life, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, grieving, healing, health, mental health, Mind/Body, mindfulness, Reiki, Religion & Spirituality on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reblogged from Hands-of-Faith Holistic Healing Centers® Blog: My friend Ellie and I were driving to the beach when she asked me to pull over. She was experiencing sharp pain in her chest. We stayed quiet as she put her hand to her heart and focused on her breathing. The pain eased and then stopped within [...]

