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Holiday Grief
By understanding the needs of those experiencing grief, the holiday season can evolve from a period of sadness into a season of comfort, reflection and hope.
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Stages of Grief
An outline of the seven typical stages of grief. Each stage is described and assurance given that emotions and depth of feeling are normal.
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5 Ways to Help a Grieving Friend
The stages of grief are well-known and accepted, and last approximately six months. Here are 5 practical ways to help a grieving friend through the mourning process.
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Navigating the Grief Journey
Learning how to navigate the journey of grief and understanding the grieving process following a major loss can make the grief experience more survivable.
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Grief for a Loved One's Loss
Grief discussed in relation to the loss of a loved one, considered the most difficult, being the finality of physical separation.
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Am I Grieving or Am I Depressed?
Learning how to tell the difference between grief and depression can help greatly in the recovery process of the person experiencing either of these responses.
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Children and Bereavement
This article offers guidance for parents and educators in the how significantly children are affected by grief.
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Helping Teens Cope with Death
When a teen's world is shattered by the death of someone close to them, they may feel helpless, angry, scared, and alone.
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Teens and Grief
Help your teen learn to cope with the death of someone special.
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Book Review: A Grief Out of Season
The 1991 book by Noelle Fintushel and Nancy Hillard, Ph.D., still rings true when considering the experience of grown children whose parents are divorcing.
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Dogs’ Death Premonitions and Grief
Dogs show psychic abilities in several ways. One of these is knowing when a loved one is in danger or dying. They have also shown signs of mourning.
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Grief and Mourning
Loss can blindside us - an unexpected death, a break up, a friend moving away - and can have real effects on our physical bodies as well as on our hearts and minds.
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Managing Grief Helps Your Health
Carol, an expert in elder care, grief, and senior issues offers straight advice about processing grief and caring for yourself, the caregiver.
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The Grief of Losing a Loved One
Why did he do it? Could it have been prevented? Should the warning signs be noticeable? Is anyone to blame?
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Earthquake: A mother's grief
Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/4338254.stm Published: 2005/10/13 13:32:51 GMT
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Grief, Loss, Depression: The Unspoken Challenges
While adoption is considered a positive experience, it is also often associated with issues of loss and grief that are seldom acknowledged.
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How To Recover From Grief And Loss
Part 6 in a series on suicide prevention
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Grief
Women with PTSD must grieve many things as a result of the trauma or traumas. This article attempts to out line the similarities between PTSD and the grieving process.

Ways to Survive a Loss By Death
Grief over the deceased is considered the most painful of human emotions due to its finality. The bereaved begins a process to cope and survive.
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A Death in the Family
Employers can help grieving employees recover from a death in the family with supportive, compassionate policies.
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Book Review: Misconceptions
Sophie Townsend's debut novel is a moving reflection on love, grief and friendship.
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Healing Body and Soul After Loss
Grief can be eased by accepting loss, change and sadness as part of life. Holistic tips and energy tools can help to lessen the pain and ease the healing process.
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Rossetti's The Convent Threshold
Christina Georgina Rossetti's poem is interpreted as an expression of grief over the loss of the Mother.
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Signs of Miscarriage
Miscarriages in the first trimester are common. There are several signs to look for if you are having a miscarriage. It is common to feel grief after a miscarriage.
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TBI and Family Implications
After a traumatic brain injury, families quickly learn that they brought a different child home from the hospital. Counseling is advised for families in this situation.
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The Body Artist
The Body Artist starkly details the loss of a partner and the assiduous attempt to recollect, to retrieve what is missing, through whatever means possible.
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When Someone You Love Has Hurt You
It happens far too often. Words can deal a fatal blow to a relationship.
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20. Growing Up
There are different stages to growing up... none of them are easy.
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28. Passages
How does that saying go, "For every time there is a season," or is it, "For every season there is a time without reason." The words don't matter really. Life cycles, like the ocean, ebb and flow with music and grace, with sparkles of light to dry the salty tears.
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A Pet's Death
When moving with your child through the grief of a lost pet, be honest, show your emotion and discuss your feelings. Give your child brief facts and don't use euphemisms. Help them through the loss of their cherished pet and memorialize the pet's life in some way.
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Adoption Books for Children
Adoption books for children of all ages. To help children learn about adoption, families, and grief.
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Anger and Losses
Losing a parent when they die is difficult, but losing the relationship of a family member or friend when they are still alive can be just a tough.
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Bereavement
Because of the terrible disaster and loss of life we experienced on September 11, I thought it would be appropriate to publish an article on bereavement. We all are struggling with deeply felt emotions. I hope this article is helpful.
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Cinny's Lament
A lament, and monument? to Cinny, a departed baby cockatiel
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Dead Quiet
Time is an issue that many grieve over. The common issue is whether enough time was spent with a loved one. Well, make the most of the time you have now, because eventually, "dead quiet" will overwhelm your life.
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Discovering Poetry Therapy
An academic poet evolves when she discovers Poetry Therapy and the healing of her art.
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Enduring to the End
Enduring to the end is tough at the best of times. There are many things to discourage us. Here are a few things that may help you keep your chin up and press forward.
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Farewell Friends
Watching a friend pass away can sometimes be a hard as seeing a family member die.
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Fatherhood can break your heart
A meditation on the depth of our feelings for our children and the nature of loss. Dedicated to JFK Jr.
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Friendship and Death
Don't rely on the family to tell you when someone has died. They have enough to worry about. Take some responsibility and learn what is happening all on your own.
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Friendship and Mental Illness
Mental illness makes all relationships difficult. The irony is that we need the support of friends, but our disorders can make it very difficult to make and keep friends.
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Gone But Never Forgotten
Mail discussion groups can be a lot more than people with a common interest. When you're dealing with loss they can be your greatest emotional support.
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Healing After A Loss
Death, grief and ritual.
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Holiday Blues?
Curl up with a photo album and a handkerchief and get the holiday blues out of your system before the rush of preparing for the holidays hits.
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Hope for Grieving Parents
Although the loss of a child is tragic, the gospel of Jesus Christ provides hope and comfort.
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It Is Well with My Soul
A look at the hymn "It Is Well with My Soul" and the sorrow and hope behind it. A future article will look at Lutheran funerals and this will be referenced there.
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JFK Jr., Princess Diana and Public Sorrow
An essay of the apparent contradictions in human sorrow that, in fact are accurate and true
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Let Me Go
Holding someone you love to this life may make you feel better, but are you doing that person a disservice. Let the suffering end.
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