Tag: mental health
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Coping With Grief Article in Woman’s World
I wanted to share an article written by Kristina Mastrocola that was recently published in Woman’s World. “Coping With Grief: Experts Share Heartfelt Ways to Honor Difficult Emotions and Find Hope” shares the thinking of Claire Bidwell Smith, Kimberley Pittman-Schulz, Rabbi Steve Leder, Lucy Hone, and myself on matters to do with grief, living, and…
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When We Are Changed
I had a conversation with someone recently about how chronic health issues have affected their lives. Where we landed was in the fact that they are, and life is, completely altered from how it was before getting sick. The grief associated with this is real, powerful, and ongoing. And not unlike grief from loss of…
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New Article on Open to Hope
Hello to you. I hope you are taking good care. A week into the new year, it is snowy and cold here in Vermont. Candles and warm tea help to nudge the spirit to warmth. I wanted to share with you a new article of mine recently posted to Open to Hope, a wonderful resource…
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Tenderness Scavenger Hunt
Overly simplistic? – NopeWaste of time? – Uh-uhOut of touch with reality? – Not at all Tenderness, kindness, love… it’s all around us. It helps to look for it. In The Long Grief Journey, we talk about going on a Tenderness Scavenger Hunt. When things feel bleak, overwhelming, unfair… it really does shift things when…
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Perfect Words
We are entering the season parties, holidays, gatherings, and traditions. Whether we live with or socialize with many people, or live alone and have a smaller social circle, it’s tough not notice or absorb the energy that goes with it all. It can be so hard, even years after a loss, to do all the…
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National Grief Awareness Day Book Talk With Pamela Blair, Bradie Hansen, and guest Ali Waltien
National Grief Awareness Day is on August 30th. To commemorate this day, we will be at Pierson Library on Thursday the 29th from 6-7pm in our town of Shelburne, VT talking about our experiences of grief, how we work to support grieving people in our community, and our book The Long Grief Journey. Joining us…
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An Article About Spontaneous Grief
I am so happy to get to write for Open to Hope. It’s a beautiful site filled with so many resources for those who are grieving. This is from an article I just wrote for them about Spontaneous Moments of Grief, those times when it creeps up on you.
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Grief Ebbs and Flows
Father’s Day recently passed. It was my first Father’s Day without my dad, who died four months before. I have to say, I’ve been taken off guard by how hard that day was for me, and how tenderized I feel in the days since. I feel as though I am in a more intense part…
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Grieving While Knowing About Grief
This year is off to a very raucous and rather painful start. I know I am not alone in feeling this way, but I wanted to share with you what has been happening because it is so relevant to the topic of this site, which is in a word, grief. Just over three weeks ago,…
The Long Grief Journey 