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Augsut 24 2015
Funerals not only meet the basic need of caring for and moving the body to its place of disposition, but it also meets the basic need of telling the story. When there is a death, fami...
Monday, August 24, 2015
August 17 2015
Why are funerals important? Funerals meet basic human needs. As Thomas G. Long, a preacher, professor and author, said:
“What I discovered is that the basic human need when somebody ...
Monday, August 17, 2015
August 10 2015
In addition to being the process of caring for and moving the body to its final disposition, a funeral is a ritual. According to Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D., the word ritual comes from the Indo-Eur...
Monday, August 10, 2015
August 3 2015
This month I want to talk about what funerals are and why they are so important. First of all, what is a funeral? In their book, The Good Funeral: Death, Grief and the Community of Care, Tho...
Monday, August 3, 2015
July 27 2015
Now that you have an understanding of the ABS skills, I invite you to practice them. When you catch yourself with a dark emotion, such as grief, fear or despair...
Attend to it
B...
Monday, July 27, 2015
July 20 2015
We’ve talked about Attending and Befriending, now let’s take a look at S. To let it go you have to let it flow, the S of Miriam Greenspan's ABS skills from Healing through the Dark Emotions...
Monday, July 20, 2015
July 13 2015
The B of Miriam Greenspan’s ABS skills from Healing through the Dark Emotions.
Befriending
You have to feel it if you want to heal it. Sometimes we get a cultural message that feeling ...
Monday, July 13, 2015
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I wasn’t always comfortable with the concept of, “Dare! Silence.” I grew up in a house with five kids and two parents, so silence was not something that happened often. When I began to practice a s...
December 4 2023
This month’s theme is “Dare! Silence.” Silence is very important throughout our lives, especially on our grief journeys. Silence can be intimidating, and we often try to fill it when we encounter i...
November 27 2023
To close this month, please read Anne Hillman’s poem, “We Look With Uncertainty” as you notice “something new is being born in” you while making new treasured memories.
We look with uncertainty
be...
November 20 2023
My favorite holidays is Thanksgiving. In terms of the meanings behind other holidays, I’m all in. But I can do without their hype and commercialization. So as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, ...
November 13 2023
As I was writing this month’s posts about our theme of “Memories Become Treasures,” the song “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac started to play. When our youngest child went off to college, this song mad...
November 6 2023
This month’s theme is “Memories Become Treasures.” In a recent grief education and support group I was leading we talked about looking at old photographs of deceased loved ones and how those pictur...
October 30 2023
To close out this month, read these words of poet John O'Donohue:
The dead are not distant or absent. They are alongside us. When we lose someone to death, we lose their physical image and presenc...
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