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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; ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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?
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 ...
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 ...