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’
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 [...]
Pathologizing Grief
Posted in Grief Theories, tagged grief on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you keeping up the crazy debate about the new DSM (DSM V)… http://societyforhumanisticpsychology.blogspot.com/2012/02/allen-frances-dsm-5-to-barricades-on.html My only hope is that because we live in an age where everything is digital, where things can be more transparent and more of us can voice our concerns, that we can stop the APA (American Psychiatric Association) from [...]
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. [...]
Coming Soon: Ask Here Post
Posted in Question & Answers, tagged death, grief, hospice, Religion and Spirituality on February 8, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Your first question from our “Ask Here” page has come in and we are thrilled to get it. Watch for the post with our readers question. The Ask Here page was created so that you, the reader, could ask the questions that you most want to know about or suggest topics for the future. When [...]
Hello Operator? Please connect me with. . .
Posted in End-of-Life, Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged compassion, family, friends, grief, grieving, healing, hospice, inspiration, meditation, mindful, mindfulness, peace, Ram Dass, relationships, Stephen Levine on February 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?” ~~Stephen Levine I think it is funny that when I thought of a special phone call, I thought of a pink princess phone. Yes, we [...]

