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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Pathologizing Grief

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 [...]

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If you didn’t get to tune in to our first Blog Talk Radio Show, please check out the podcast. Tonight we had a caller, a social worker, who was concerned about the staff at her agency. She works in a residential center and finds that her staff is dealing with patient’s deaths more often and [...]

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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.  [...]

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/dont-confuse-grief-with-d_b_1233883.html I really appreciate that thinkers in my field, specifically humanistic existential, are speaking out against the American Psychiatric Association.  Dr. Stolorow posted some comments to Dr. Allen Frances‘ blog on the Huffington Post. I think we need to take a stand against the APA.  They have the power to create the illusion and delusion [...]

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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 [...]

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Longaker has a wonderful book, “Facing Death and Finding Hope:  A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying“.  She has worked for years with Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan teacher and author.  Christine helped to establish two important institutions in our country . . . Hospice of Santa Cruz County and Rigpa Fellowship (US).  She also [...]

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“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 [...]

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Namaste 02/14 by Honoring Your Journey | Blog Talk Radio. Learn what the word Namaste means and how it relates to your journey with illness, with grieving, with caregiving, with the present moment. Join us for our first 15-minute broadcast to learn how Namaste Consulting is where you want to tune into to learn how [...]

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