Grief and Loss Support

Featured Grief and Loss Support

Five Stages of Preparing for Death - Preparing for a death can be terrifying if you have no idea what to expect, both physically and emotionally.

Grieving Takes Many Forms -   By Mary Emma Allen Attending a weekend workshop on grief helped me deal with death and losses in my family over the ensuing years. It enabled me to understand that grief takes many forms and may not occur only with a death. Also, each person is affected differently by ...

Coping with Tragedy, Loss, and Grief -   By Dan Johnston, PH.D We live life as whole persons, but we experience and process it at the Four Levels of Mind, Emotion, Body, and Spirit. * At the level of the mind we try to understand the events of our lives. We attempt to make sense of things.

Freedom of Grief for My Mother - On December 27, 1966, it was my 18th birthday; my mother had been ill but I did not realize how ill she was; she was a single mother who raised 3 children on her own; she had remarried a man who was totally blind and they had a son when my mother was in her 40's!  We lived a very simple life; mother ...

The Most Beautiful Hands -   By by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta When I turned five and went to nursery school, she was worried about me because it was my first day at school. That morning I shooed her away when she tried to wait for my bus with me. She stayed behind the gates and still saw me off. On the first ...

Alzheimer's: A Mom's Love - By Caroline Shaw My mom at 82 passed away this past Christmas, but... As I think of my mom prior to her illness, (She had not been herself since '85. Strokes and dementia had taken away much of her personality) I think of someone whose total FOCUS was her kids and my mom was a "working mom." Shewas ...