Viktor Frankl’s memoir about his internment in concentration camps and how we can thrive despite trauma.
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This Thing Called Grief (Thomas M. Ellis)
Thomas Ellis’s book This Thing Called Grief is a wonderful and digestible book on grief. At only 132 pages, you can get through it in a day if you are inclined. Click on image to purchase at Bookshop.org This post contains affiliate links. Please see my affiliate disclaimer. Ellis is a licensed marriage and familyContinueContinue reading “This Thing Called Grief (Thomas M. Ellis)”
Monday Meditation: Allow for Self-Correction
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. -Lao Tzu Imagine life as a highway. You’re driving along, and you realize that you are going in a direction you hadn’t intended or the way you thought you wanted to go is turning into something you had not expected. YourContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: Allow for Self-Correction”
Monday Meditation: Be Present
The point of power is always in the present moment. -Louise L. Hay In grief, we may tend to worry about what happened in the past or what awaits us in the future. By doing so, we worry about things we can no longer change and things that we cannot foresee. The present moment, theContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: Be Present”
Monday Meditation: Rise Up.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.-Confucius Grief is far from a smooth path. Just when we think we have mastered some emotion or aspect of grief, something comes along and knocks us off kilter. Maybe we react badly, maybe we feel like we failed. Grief isContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: Rise Up.”
GRIEF 101: Is Grief the Same for Everyone?
In short: NO. Grief is not the same for everyone who goes through it. Grief is unique to every Griever. There is no predictable pattern that grief follows from person to person. Each Grievers’ loss is different because each person going through loss is different: they have different relationships with the people they lose, theyContinueContinue reading “GRIEF 101: Is Grief the Same for Everyone?”
Monday Meditation: Move through Struggle
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. -Napoleon Hill Grief is a constant struggle with emotions, life circumstances, unhelpful Grief Supporters, difficult family members, and missing the loved one. The effort required to slog your way through this period is enormous. Along the way, you will uncover strength you were unaware ofContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: Move through Struggle”
Monday Meditation: Forgive for the Future
When you forgive, you in no way change the past—but you sure do change the future. -Bernard Meltzer The grief period is fraught with tension, Grief Supporters behave badly, Grievers hold anger, very few people understand what Grievers are dealing with in their daily lives, etc. To come out of this experience as a strongerContinueContinue reading “Monday Meditation: Forgive for the Future”
How to Fall Apart
In my post The Right to Fall Apart, I wrote about the Griever’s right to express emotions when needed. The trouble with falling apart is that we have to attend to our lives at the same time. We have jobs, school, and/or families to deal with. Real Life intrudes on our need to crumble; therefore,ContinueContinue reading “How to Fall Apart”
GRIEF 101: What is Grief?
In the wake of a death we use the term “grief” to describe what we and/or others are going through. The word “grief” seems to be an umbrella term that covers a variety of things happening with those closest to the person who has died. (Grief also extends to a variety of other life situationsContinueContinue reading “GRIEF 101: What is Grief?”
New Year, New Blog
I have been away for a while. My last post from three years ago probably gives you a clue as to why. My mother died on March 5, 2015. When my mother died in 2015, I was an underemployed, adjunct professor living with my parents in Richmond, VA commuting to Washington DC. Now, in 2018,ContinueContinue reading “New Year, New Blog”