#MondaysMoments
July 6 2015
- Let’s take a look at Miriam Greenspan’s A of the ABS skills from Healing through the Dark Emotions:
Attending – learn to listen.
Attend to what you feel; notice your thou...
Monday, July 6, 2015
June 29 2015
Certain skills can help you through a season of grief. In her book, Healing through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair, Miriam Greenspan, a psychotherapist, writ...
Monday, June 29, 2015
June 22 2015
Last week I spoke about giving yourself fully to each season in your life, including a season of grief. This may feel counterintuitive and not at all what you want to do. Hold onto th...
Monday, June 22, 2015
June 15 2015
The pattern of birth, loss, birth, loss plays out all around us. You can see it in the hours of the day; each day begins and then ends. You can see ...
Monday, June 15, 2015
June 8 2015
All change involves some kind of loss, right? Let’s start at the very...
Monday, June 8, 2015
June 1 2015
When we are in grief we need to slow down, to turn inward, to embrace our feelings of loss and to seek and accept support.
&nb...
Monday, June 1, 2015
May 25 2015
Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous. &n...
Monday, May 25, 2015
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November 27 2023
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We look with uncertainty
be...
November 20 2023
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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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