Affirmation and Approval Affirmation and approval are powerful needs in most people throughout their lives. The need we have for someone to tell us […]
Struggle vs Surrender
Struggle vs Surrender Definitions: Resistance: the refusal to accept something, the attempt to prevent something by action or argument. The opposition to, hostility to, the […]
Grief To Gold
Grief to Gold This idea is one of the most important things I learned in the first year of my bereavement, something that became a […]
Hope – Healing – Wellness Continuum
Hope, Healing and Wellness Definitions: These are some important words we use often as we talk about and describe our grief and how we want […]
Overcoming Inertia..
Overcoming Inertia Inertia is a term I use to talk about a grief fatigue, of mostly being unable to find the physical and/or mental/emotional energy […]
Inertia and Moving Forward Towards Functionality:
Inertia and Moving Forward Towards Functionality: If the word healing doesn’t describe what you are seeking completely enough, perhaps the word functionality might help express […]
Dating, Online Dating, Being Part of a Couple, Marriage, Friendships, Living Alone, Trying Something New:
Dating, Online Dating, Being Part of a Couple, Marriage, Friendships, Living Alone, Trying Something New: Here are a number of ideas that we might want […]
Waves of Grief:
Waves of Grief: One of the more commonly expressed statements about grief from people who are grieving is that rather than being a constant feeling, […]
We are not our grief, We are grieving
We are not our grief, we are grieving: Two quotes to begin with: “Life is like a river and grief is like a flood.” “Grief […]
Hope and Healing Widow and Widowers Support Group: July 20, 2021 Meeting: Taking control of our (new) life:
Taking control of our (new) life: Further Discussions on Reconstruction… For many of us, the beginning of our grief journey happens in a fog. The […]