It seems that no matter how much you work with grief, when it hits you personally, it’s as if you’ve never seen it before. The weight of it crashes on top of you, taking your breath away. You wonder if you will ever breathe deeply again. [...]
I don’t know about you, but there seems to be something about fall that brings a shift in how I feel. Maybe it’s the changing weather or the simple fact that I know the holidays are approaching. Football and the Holidays I was thinking about how [...]
Grief is a strange thing; and at the same time, it’s very normal. One minute life seems to be going well, and then seemingly out of nowhere the earth gives way under your feet. You feel as though you are free-falling with no place to land. [...]
Your friend or family member just called you to tell you that someone they love died. It’s a heart wrenching call and you feel as though you need to come up with something to say to help them feel better or, at a minimum, offer some [...]
Guest Post by Jolene Underwood What if the grief you feel is the result of a situation where you did, or didn’t, say or do something the way you wished you had? Feeling like you’ve failed, because you messed up or just can’t seem to get [...]
Have you had a loved one die and find that you are carrying guilt? Maybe it’s a guilt that you couldn’t stop the death. Maybe it’s a guilt that you didn’t answer their last call. Or maybe it’s a guilt that you weren’t enough in some [...]
When you lose someone you love, it’s difficult to think about spending any holiday without them. When you’ve spent decades married to a spouse who has now died, it can be excruciating to think about being without them. And all of the advertisements about red roses, [...]
Guest Post by Rita A Schulte, MA, LPC Even people who have the social skills to be gracious in a variety of situations are frequently at a loss when it comes to finding the right words to say to those who have experienced a traumatic loss. [...]
Do you dread the holiday season? Perhaps it is a reminder of all that has been lost and what will never be. You see grief is not only about what has happened to you, it is also about all of those things that didn’t get to [...]
by Dr. H. Norman Wright - Guest Blogger What are the losses in your life you have never fully grieved over? Whether it is a friend or family member, the person sitting across from me during a counseling session, someone attending a seminar or even the [...]
