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 ‘mental health’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Common Reactions to Grief: Spiritual
Posted in Grief Theories, tagged death, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, Meaning of life, mental health, Religion & Spirituality, Shambhala, spirituality, Thich Nhat Hanh on February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Spiritual Reactions Searching for meaning in loss Changes in spiritual beliefs, feelings, or behaviors Experiencing a sense of the deceased’s presence Searching for a way to live without the decease They say the clothes make the person. . . but I think what makes the person is their spirituality and their relationship to it; especially when [...]
Reblogging Myself: Seeing the Whole
Posted in Grief Theories, Reblogged, tagged grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, health, hospice, mental health on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A big part of the work I did at hospice was working with children and it was so frustrating that people who worked with these kids did not do good loss histories …. kids got medicated when they needed to have people listen to them, play with them, and care. I used to write for [...]
John Welshons: Living with and Learning from Grief
Posted in Grief Theories, tagged Buddhism, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, grieving, inspiration, meditation, mental health, mindful, mindfulness, Ram Dass, relationships, Religion & Spirituality, spirituality, Stephen Levine, Zen on February 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
John is one of my favorite authors and teachers on relationships, grief, dying, etc. This is the first part of two clips. He makes a good point as he speaks to the moderator…. when we talk about relationships, health, family, etc, we are really talking about dying and grieving. One day, maybe we will see [...]

