The End of a Relationship Can Be a Terrible Loss (23 Apr 2006)
Breaking up, getting divorced and the death of your partner are among the biggest loss events in life.
There are three important things to remember:
1. Grief is the reaction to a loss event;
2. Grieving is the normal, natural, an...
An Opening: Revisiting An Old Loss (27 Sep 2005)
I can't explain where, after thirty-one years, the need to
visit my mother's grave came from. I was driving south on
Highway 99, thinking about this and wondering what to
expect when I got there. I first started feeling this need a few
months ...
Funeral Flower Arrangements (14 Nov 2005)
Comforting a grieving family is never an easy task and people often feel quite helpless at being unable to do the right thing. Fortunately, flowers are a good way to condole one's loss and are sent to the funeral home for display during the viewin...
Helping a Friend Who is Coping With Anticipatory Grief (17 Dec 2005)
Friends share their lives with each other. You swap stories, laugh at silly jokes, and discuss tough issues. Whether it's before death or after, no issue is tougher than grief. "Close
friends can make the critical difference in our coping with...
Depression from a Spiritual Perspective (08 Sep 2005)
When you read about depression, you will encounter many passages like the following:
"These brain chemicals—in varying amounts—are responsible for our emotional state. Depression happens, when these chemical messages aren't delivered correct...
How to Buy a Funeral or Cremation Urn (27 Nov 2005)
Buying an urn is something most people hope they never have to do. Unfortunately, at some point in our lives we will probably have to purchase an urn or a casket for a loved one. Here are a few things you will want to know.
First, what happe...
Relationship Advice: Our Dog Died Today - Grieve Together (07 Oct 2005)
Our 14 year old golden retriever, Rudy, died today. My wife, Pam, and I are grief stricken. Rudy was with us for more than half our married life. He was our hiking partner, our companion every day, our friend.
Thankfully, we have each other ...
Emotional Gravity And Physical Gravity: Same Or Different? (01 Oct 2005)
In a recent article entitled "Obesity and Emotional Gravity" I describe how individuals who experience a new personal growth strategy called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) (MRP) find themselves spontaneously and effortlessly losing large amounts o...
Winter of Death [about dying] (28 Sep 2005)
(Introduction) This article is in three parts: introduction, poem, and the body. And I know I don't need to say that, but I want to clarify it for the reader so you kind of know where I'm headed.
Has the thought of dying ever occurred to yo...
Should We Be Forgiven for Growing Old? (19 Dec 2005)
Friday, I went to the doctor's office to have six precancerous lesions frozen off my face. Sunday night, I "slept" at the ER with a high temperature and horrible pain from my stomach to my kidneys. I am 45 years old. Old enough, I suppose, to feel...
Anticipatory Grief Work: What is It and How Do You Do It? (30 Aug 2005)
If you're going through anticipatory grief you've probably heard of "grief work." Health professionals may use the term without explaining it. Anticipatory grief is so draining and confusing you may not have a clear picture of your grief work. ...
Thoughts on the After-Life (12 Feb 2006)
1st Internet Question: DO YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION? FOR THOSE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND REINCARNATION, IT'S A PROCESS WHEREBY YOU LIVE A NUMBER OF LIFE-TIMES IN ORDER TO PERFECT YOUR LIFE THAT COULDN'T BE ACCOMPLISHED DURING ONE LIFE-TIME BEFORE YO...
Coping with Pet Grief: How to Move Forward While Mourning the Loss of a Pet (05 Aug 2005)
Grieving for our animal companions is painful and can leave us feeling overwhelmed and unable to even imagine moving forward into life again. There are many reasons why this can happen, and yet, the most important thing is to find ways to decreas...
Learning Lifes Lessons Through Adversity (22 Jan 2006)
Adversities are a part of living, and we choose the way we react to each adversity in our lives. I would be the last to deny that adversities can be exceedingly difficult. Many times they will be senseless, unfair, painful, and beyond our control ...
Holiday Heartbreak (26 Oct 2005)
It is the season to be jolly, as all the songs and magazine articles will tell you,but for some of us that is not how we feel.
Family is the most important part of the Christmas season, the laughter,the visits of far away relatives,the childre...
Loss Part Two: How are We Affected? (15 May 2006)
How are we affected by Loss?
Part Two on Loss
"There is no real way to deal with everything you lose."
Joan Didion, from an interview in the San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 2004.
How are we affected
Loss Part One: What Types of Loss? (29 Nov 2005)
"There is no real way to deal with everything you lose."
Joan Didion, from an interview in the San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 2004.
What are the areas of loss?
Here are some examples of loss. It is not a complete...
Healing From Loss (05 Aug 2005)
Can you re-start your life?
"There is no real way to deal with everything you lose."
Joan Didion, from an interview in the San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 2004.
What do we lose? Though I did...
Sara Seagate, Our Keeper of the Memories Died November 19, 2005 (16 Nov 2005)
It was a beautiful relationship, one full of fond memories. Perhaps once in a lifetime by exchanging every intimate detail of ones life is such a deep, deep bond felt between two, inexplicably dependent on each other in furtherance of their missio...
Life After Death (10 Jan 2006)
Do you believe in life after death?
Too often I find that the subject of death is addressed with goofy speculation, close-minded stubbornness, or outright fear and avoidance. So let's bypass the "Death for Dummies" approach and take a deeper...
