Adjusting After Our Person Has Died
It is a challenging part of life, both emotionally and physically, to figure out how to live productively when this person is no longer with us...
It is a challenging part of life, both emotionally and physically, to figure out how to live productively when this person is no longer with us...
It has been almost six months since my husband of 62 years died. As an end of life educator I have taught about loss and grief, and even wrote a booklet about it. BUT...
This is another aspect of grief I didn’t know until now that I am living it. Who am I if I am only one? What have I wanted to do...
I’ve noticed people are hesitant to talk about the person that died or use their name...
Now I have to learn how to be a widow. How to create a new life, a new way of being. I am truly alone.
Death has touched us all, some more recently than others. Grief has no actual timeline, no end point where we are suddenly “fine”. Each of us responds to our loss...
We in health care, enter a family's life at a challenging, sad and fearful time. It is our acts of thoughtfulness that will be remembered and provide comfort.
This is where bereavement support groups come in. Support groups are for anyone experiencing a death. The groups are not for just those people having challenges in dealing with their...
From what you have told me I believe your mother's death was no one's fault, certainly not yours. Her body, after all the years of illness, couldn't continue and she...
We tend to carry within our memory every death encounter we have ever had. Yes, even we professionals who work with end of life. BUT it is the personal deathbed memory,...
Aside from pleasing or displeasing others let's look at some issues that can occur as the result of becoming socially and or romantically involved soon after a death of a...
First, if you don’t have to clean out belongings, don’t for awhile, wait even months if necessary. There can be great comfort found in putting on an unwashed sweater of...