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When Grief is Stirred and Re-Stirred … and Re-Stirred …

Welcome to our second “Grief Week.” If you missed the first, you can read the posts here and here. COVID-19 has come with so much loss and change; ...

August 21, 2020
Helping Children Deal With Grief

You can't protect your kids from the pain of loss of a loved one, but you can help build healthy coping skills which will serve them well in adulth ...

August 21, 2020
A Timely and Short Discourse on Grief

I’m not one to get weepy very often, but between the death of my aunt and two men from my circle of friends with spinal cord injuries, 11 weeks of ...

August 21, 2020
Whats your Grief - A Grief Website for the Rest of Us

What's Your Grief is a grief website and online community for grieving people and grief support professionals. We honor all types of loss and grief ...

August 21, 2020
When your last goodbye was your last goodbye: Processing death and life abroad

“Jesus looked up in the tree and said, ‘Zacchaeus, you come down . . . and I’ll give you a Snicker bar.'” -ME: circa 1976   Mary Musgrave love ...

August 21, 2020
The Center for Complicated Grief

Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is a form of grief that is persistent and pervasive and interferes with functioning. It’s characterized ...

August 21, 2020
Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure

Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” and invented a new field within psychology to name the reality that every loss does not hold a promis ...

August 21, 2020
A Liturgy for Those with an Inconsolable Homesickness (read by Doug McKelvey)

You Tube reading of a prayer for those suffering inconsolable homesickness from Every Moment Holy (Rabbit Room Press) ©2017

By: Douglas K ...

August 21, 2020
Holiday Grief: An Unwelcome Guest Deserving of Radical Hospitality

Grief is an emotional, mental, and spiritual wound — and this is precisely because it is a relational wound.

August 21, 2020
Who cares for the carer when they're bereaved?

What happens to the people who lose a relative and their identity as a carer too?

August 21, 2020
Outlawed Grief, a Curse Disguised

Living abroad is an amazing adventure, but it comes with some baggage. And sometimes, the baggage fees are hidden, catching you by surprise, costin ...

August 21, 2020
A lament for the griefs we don’t have time to grieve

April and May are usually a grieving season for mission communities. This year it has been particularly rough. Schools closed without warning. Peop ...

August 21, 2020