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Supporting Youth During Grief
EP 1119B - Giving Hope: Conversations with Children about Illness, Death and Loss
Life After Cancer: Managing Your Emotions After Cancer Treatment
Cancer and Your Career: Balancing Work, Emotions and a Diagnosis
Should We Do Away With Funerals And Memorial Services?
Talking to Kids about Grief and Loss
Transforming Your Grief, Episode 6
Transforming Your Grief Episode 5
Transforming Your Grief: Episode 4
Transforming Your Grief: Episode 3
Transforming Your Grief: Episode 2
Transforming Your Grief Episode 1
EP 1,011B - ART: Accelerated Resolution Therapy
TBTCE: Tears to Triumph: How to Be Fully Available to Your Suffering
Finding Peace with the Loss of a Loved One
Tips for Helping Kids Cope with Grief
Connecting With Those We’ve Lost
Encore Episode: Dealing with Loss
Helping Children Navigate Grief and Loss
Dealing with Loss
Empathy & Feeling Another's Pain
EP 867B Dealing with Trauma & Loss
Why Letting Go Is the Worst Advice
Navigating Loss, Transition & Recovery
Ep14 - Rebuilding After Tragedy: Dr. Dawn Marie Nappi
Tears to Triumph: How to Be Fully Available to Your Suffering
Rebuilding After Tragedy & Trauma
Life is Just a Party, and Parties Weren't Meant to Last
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today, to get through this thing called life."
Music shapes our lives.
Almost everyone has a favorite song, or a song that brings you back to a memorable time in your life.
There might be a handful of songs you’ll never forget the lyrics to, no matter how long it’s been since you heard them.
You may have a favorite soundtrack (I have many) or immediately think of a movie when you hear a certain tune. For me, the movie Pretty Woman always comes to mind when I hear Prince’s song, Kiss… you know, that scene where Julia Roberts is in the big bathtub, headphones on, oblivious to Richard Gere watching her rock out in the bubbles.
There are also iconic artists.
We lost David Bowie earlier this year, Merle Haggard, Phife Dawg, Joey Feek, Maurice White, Glenn Frey, just to name a few.
Yesterday, we lost another.
What Lessons Can Tragedy Teach You?
Health Impacts of Stress, Tragedy & Loss
Coping with Tragedy
Does Emotional Stress Cause Disease?
How to Move Beyond Loss
Traversing Tragedy: How to Handle Hardship & Move On
Mental Illness & Suicide: Healing from the Loss of a Loved One
7-Step Plan to Beat Depression
Grieving for Your Pet
Broken Heart Syndrome: Can It Kill You?
What No One Ever, EVER Tells You About Grief
Grief is some tricky shit.
I apologize for the language... I tried to think of any other phrase that would set the stage for this blog; for what I’m feeling... somehow “grief is some tricky stuff” didn’t cut the mustard.
I’m fairly cerebral in my life processes; meaning that I tend to make sense of things by “thinking it out.” That is, I try to work everything out in my brain. If I can explain it away, with a reasonable argument and step-by-step analysis, I can process and move on.
I can’t make sense of what’s happening in my heart.
There are varying levels of grief. You can grieve the loss of a loved one (death). Grieve the loss of a loved one (divorce). Grieve the loss of your skinny jeans (just getting fat).
Obviously that last one is super-superficial.
It’s strange how I’ve processed grief in the past. When my grandparents and great aunts and uncles (who treated me like a grandchild) passed, I think I was still too young to realize what this meant. They were elderly; many in the stages of dementia and disease. What I didn’t realize is that while I lost a grandparent, my folks lost a parent.
And, while I haven’t lost a parent, I’ve lost a parent-in-law.