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.

You Can Help A Grieving Heart -   Alice J. Wisler Oh, we talk about the best cold medications and if cherry cough syrup tastes better to kids than orange. We can recommend preschools and sneakers. But the hardest part of parenting is the least often discussed. The roughest aspect of being a parent is ...

Reaching Out After a Miscarriage -   By Brenda Hyde A loss of a baby through miscarriage is a difficult and emotional time for mother, and father. I speak from experience, because I suffered two miscarriages-one at about 10 weeks and the other at 8 weeks. It's a very private loss-one that is hard to share with friends ...

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.

Just Sitting With It -   by Catie Gosselin of WomanLinks.com The shock of my father's death is beginning to wane. The arrangements were made. The funeral and burial followed. My family and I now find ourselves faced with returning to our usual routines. The only hitch is that the grief is not ...

A Child's Memory Book - Helping share memories of a loved one Sometimes we need to look at family memories from a child's perspective. Kids don't understand why they can't handle old photographs or carry around the family scrapbook. What does a child do with treasured toys, or things they have collected? They carry them around. ...