Keep on until you catch on. – Eric Butterworth. My Dear Community, Grief is hard when you do the inner work. It’s even harder when you don’t. Lately, a physician has referred many of his patients to me. He recognizes that underlying grief causes multiple...
My Dear Community, Recently, I spoke with a grieving woman who lost her child by suicide 19 months ago. She asked me, “How did you move forward after your son’s traumatic death? Talk therapy just does not work.” I paused, took a deep breath and began… Four years...
Dear Community, This post is by guest author, Susan Schoenbeck, MSN, RN. Today she talks about the space where we deal with loss and how to moderate it. I met Susan through the NW Association of Death Education and Bereavement in 2014. Her writings are full of gentle...
Part 2 of 4 Halloween, All Hallow’s Eve is tonight. Children dress up going from house to house to receive sweet treats. Could it be that for this one night in the United States, we embrace death instead of fearing it? Tomorrow on November 1st, All Saint’s...
When you are overcome by grief, it feels like you are adrift on an iceberg that is breaking up in a dance fog. This can lead to feelings of fatigue, devastation, confusion, chaos, despair, shame, anger, guilt, fear of eternal separation and hopelessness. It feels like...
