Friday, 13 Sep 2013 14:24
Sometimes, it really does take one to know one. Not every counselor can work well with every patient. It is hard to understand how people can presume to know bereavement and grief when they have lost no one of significance in their lives. Continue reading
Tuesday, 23 Jul 2013 03:04
I breathed a song into the air
It fell to earth I knew not where,
For who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of a song?
And the song from beginning to end
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, From: “The Heart of a Friend”
We cannot choose our family. We can choose our friends. That is a great privilege. It is a pleasure. It is a necessity. Continue reading
Monday, 08 Jul 2013 02:45
In the case of childhood bereavement, the death of a parent, the term “bereaved caregiver” no longer applies. The tables are turned. The child is indeed bereaved, but he himself is in need of a caregiver. Continue reading
Tuesday, 25 Jun 2013 00:49
Guest Blogger, Robert Jones, shares a brief, deeply personal story illustrating how death changes the living, how grief may become a vehicle for growth and how a legacy may become reinforced in the lives of survivors.
Dad’s body died on April 12, 2013.
Tuesday, 25 Jun 2013 00:30
I know an elderly gentleman. He is 85 years old. He is a physician, and he is my friend. One day, he joked about his mother. She died 60 years ago. He said with a slightly wry smile, “I think I’m over it!” He isn’t. He knows it. I know it. And he knows that I know. He likes that. It is our special secret. Continue reading
Monday, 17 Sep 2012 09:39
Emotional wellness is important to cultivate in all phases of living, but may be most naturally available at the end of life—the very time when the wellness of the body may be waning.
How is this so?
When people have a sure knowledge that they are nearing the end of their lives, a new type of energy is unleashed. Old inhibitions and blockages may be released. An emotional and spiritual window of opportunity opens which allows love to be shared more freely, old grudges to fall away in insignificance, and relationship healing to occur which seemed unobtainable at other times of life. Continue reading
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