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Articles about grief (0-50 of 1631)
- Dealing With Grief And Loss In 3 Simple Steps
By: Michael Lee | - Dealing with grief and loss is never an easy time for the people involved. However, there is a positive and a negative way of handling the situation.
Going about it the positive way will bring you peace and acceptance. Going down the negative way will bring you more pain and grief. So despite how tempting it is to crash and burn, you know whats right for you.
If you are dealing with grief and loss, or if you know someone in that situation, you would benefit from re ...
Tags: dealing with grief and loss, how to cope with grief
- Dealing With Grief Over A Departed Pet
By: hunny01 | - The loss of a beloved pet can be as devastating as losing a family member. Afterall, pets can even be more lovingly unconditional than people. If only the amount of love showered on our pets can be equal to the amount of years added to its life, our pets would live as long as we want them too. But as everything else that has a beginning, so too, do they have an ending. Indeed the paradox of loss is at constant play with life. we are certain that everything ends but we are uncertain when it ends. ...
Tags: Self Improvement, Handling Grief
- After The Funeral: Grief Counseling For Everyone
By: Alan Roberts | - When a loved one dies, we all react differently. For some people, accepting the inevitable loss of a 87-year-old much-loved grandfather following a lengthy illness is not that difficult. For others, it is an unbearable task. Similarly, some people seem to "get over" the loss of a small child in a relatively short period of time, while others never seem to recover.
For the many people who find it hard to cope with a death, grief counseling often can help them make the transition. Its ...
Tags: funeral, funeral procession, grief counseling
- Funeral Homes: What They Can Do For You
By: Sarah Matthews | - When somebody dies, it's a shock. And once the shock wears off, there's the question of what to do next. Few of us are fully prepared to make funeral arrangements, unless we've had the dubious honor of doing it all before, and most of us don't even know the location of our local funeral home.
Once you do find its location (just look in the phone book), it's not really that difficult to plan the funeral - with their advice and help. Of course, there are cheaper ways of planning a fu ...
Tags: death, funeral, service, help, grief
- Valuable Tools For Working With Grief
By: Kate Francis | - No matter where we are from or what has happened to us, each one of us deals with grief throughout our life. There is the grief that comes with the loss of a loved one and there is grief that is a necessary response to what we may carry with us from our childhood. There is also grief as a result of changes in our lives such as relocation, birth of a child, or a new job. This grief is there regardless of whether the change is inherently one that we are happy about or not; all change implies some ...
Tags: grief, mourning, loss, personal growth, change, self help
- Grief And Loss Overview
By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - Grief and Loss Overview
by Maurice Turmel PhD
An overview of grief and loss shows us that this is a broad category of life experience. We usually associate it with death and dying, but it can include losing your employment and broken relationships as additional categories that generate the grief experience. Grief and loss comes in a multiplicity of dimensions that affect our daily lives.
Losing a loved one is what we typically associate with grief and loss. B ...
Tags: grief and loss, grief and bereavement, grief recovery, grief
- Grief Recovery Stages Summary
By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - The stages of Death and Dying evolved by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross are often mis-identified as The Stages of Grief Recovery. In her schema, she came up with 1) denial, 2) anger, 3) bargaining, 4) depression and 5) acceptance as reactions to a diagnosis of terminal illness. Her stages only make sense when considered against that backdrop. As such, this configuration has nothing to do with the stages of grief recovery.
Looking back over my 25 years of therapeutic experience dealing with ...
Tags: grief recovery stages, grief stages, stages of grief, grief
- Bereavement Help Audio Ebook
By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - My name is Maurice Turmel, also known as 'Dr Moe.' I am the author of 'How to Cope with Grief and Loss ' Bereavement Audio Ebook.' There are many products on the web today offering programs and strategies for dealing with grief, loss and bereavement. This audio ebook is one of them, but stands out in a very significant way.
Over my 25 years of professional practice I learned that grieving individuals had the hardest time dealing with their feelings of loss and the ensuing emoti ...
Tags: bereavement. bereavement help, grief recovery book
- Grief- What Can Be Done About It?
By: cdmohatta | - Grief can be overwhelming. A death, separation of loved one, etc. can cause tremendous grief. This kind of grief refuses to get treated for a long period. People say that time is a great healer, but it is also true that the more time passes, the more time you have to grieve. Some time back I used to visit web pages set up by cancer patients. Most of them were young children who were suffering from leukemia. The parents used to write in the pages and share their agony. I recollect a father whose ...
Tags: grief, relationships, separation
- What Is Grief Counselling?
By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - When I was in private practice I saw a lot of individuals who were grieving the loss of a loved one, whether that was a child, a spouse, a parent or a close friend. On a few occasions I saw couples where one of them had been diagnosed with a terminal condition and had less than 6 months to live. These situations were particularly traumatic for the persons involved, especially for the spouse who was not ill.
With these couples, we would discuss what was happening and how each of ...
Tags: grief counseling, grief recovery handbook, grieving process,
- How I Deal With Grief And Loss
By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - I've been writing these kinds of stories for about ten years now. I started handing them out to clients in my therapy practice to see how they would react. Their responses were typically positive. Those in grief knew right away how their loss had affected them and they reported finding comfort here in these words.
A few years ago, I found out for myself what an impact these stories could have when I went through the grief of losing my mother. That event tossed me into a state wher ...
Tags: grief recovery, bereavement, coping with grief, grieving
- The Real Stages Of Grieving
By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - When people pose questions about the Stages of Grief Recovery they are often referred to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' Stages of Death. Her research showed what individuals would go through when receiving a "death sentence" from their doctor. In other words, they had a terminal condition and they were just given so many weeks or months, or perhaps years to live. Then they would go through 1) Denial; 2) Anger; 3) Bargaining; 4) Depression; and 5) Acceptance. In the media and on the net, these stages a ...
Tags: stages of grief, grief stages, 5 stages of grief, grieving
- How To Cope With Bereavement
By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - Bereavement Help:
The experience of bereavement is where you come to after the loss of a loved one has begun to work its way through your emotional landscape. Bereavement Help is about choosing resources to help you heal and recover from this emotional trauma.
You will feel lost for a time. This person who has passed on and left your world represented something important to you. You not only lost them, but a part of yourself as well. Bereavement Help is what you n ...
Tags: grief bereavement, bereavement, bereavement grief, grieving
- How To Cope With A Relationship Breakup
By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - Breaking up with your lover, partner or spouse is a major event in your life. The consequences are not much different than losing a loved one through death. A relationship breakup is a death of sorts, the death of possibilities, a future together and plans that were spun around during your better days together.
Feelings of loss, sadness and grief are common to the experience. What you go through is a period of mourning and bereavement over the death of possibilities.
Tags: death of partner, relationship breakup, relationship grief
- How To Deal With Suicide Grief
By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - Death due to suicide is probably the most complex grieving experience we ever have to deal with. When a loved one commits suicide we are left wondering Why? Over and over that simple question just keeps coming up - Why?
Why would someone we love do that to themselves? What was going on in their mind that this was their only way out? Did I miss something in their behavior that could have warned me of this possibility? I feel lost and confused, and maybe even guilty. I cannot accept ...
Tags: grief suicide, suicide depression, suicide grief help, grief
- How To Deal With Murder Grief
By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - Murder grief may be somewhat less difficult to deal with than suicide grief, simply because the answer to "why" always points to a third party rather than the deceased individual. Otherwise, the difference is akin to being hit in the head with a 5 pound sledge as opposed to a 10 pound sledge. Either of these will cause a lot of damage. The question of "why", in this case, leads us to try and understand the killer's motivation which rarely delivers a satisfactory answer.
Murder h ...
Tags: murder grief, grieving murder, grief after murder, grieving
- How To Cope With Death Of A Parent
By: Maurice Turmel PhD | - Losing a parent is something we all have to face at some point in our lives. At a young age this is particularly difficult, so we rely on adults to show us how to grieve. Sadly, most adults are poor models of the grieving process as a whole.
When we lose a parent in our adult years we are facing a changing of the guard so to speak. The older generation is leaving which leaves us without a buffer to our own eventual demise. We may have just lost our last surviving parent, or we may ...
Tags: death of a parent, death of father, death of mother, grief
- Coping With Grief And Bereavement
By: Ben Nystrom | - Grief and bereavement are horrible but natural parts of life. It's inevitable that someone you know and love will die someday, and grief is a normal part of recovering from such a loss. Grief isn't easy; it is painful, debilitating, and can leave you feeling empty and alone. The best thing you can do is find constructive, positive ways to deal with your grief before it cripples you or causes long-term harm to your mental and physical health.
Grief is a term used to describe any nu ...
Tags: bereavement, dealing with grief, grief support
- Helpful Information On Bereavement Grief
By: Chad Wiley | - Bereavement comes in many forms that can be equally devastating, whether it is for a loved one, friend, or even a pet. The emotions experienced during bereavement can vary from shock and denial to anger and even guilt. These can be especially difficult to deal with because the range of emotions that a death causes are often unexpected. However, wide range of feelings is normal.
Learning to cope with a loss does not happen all in an instant. Most mental health professionals no long ...
Tags: grief, death, dying, funeral, funeral home
- The Painful Grief From Losing A Pet
By: Chad Wiley | - Pets provide some of the best times for a family. They provide a friend to play with, a companion to spend time with and can often complete the modern family structure. There comes a time however, when a beloved family pet passes on.
The painful grief from losing a pet is often overlooked. In many cases, a lost pet was as much a part of the family as their human counterparts. It is for this reason that the loss of a family pet can often result in grief that is very real and very p ...
Tags: pet loss, pet grief, loss of pet
- Finding Support From Family After The Loss Of A Parent
By: Chad Wiley | - Finding support from family after the loss of a parent can be a struggle. Every individual experiences grief in his or her own way. Allow yourself to grieve and try to give others room to grieve too. Your first responsibility at this very difficult time is to yourself. Take very good care of yourself so you can be a support for other family members. You will find that giving of yourself will bring you a foundation of familial support too.
Because relationships between family membe ...
Tags: grief, grief support, loss of parent, help with loss of parent
- Dealing With Depression From Loss Of Loved One
By: Chad Wiley | - Dealing with the loss of a loved one can be a difficult task. Understanding the grief process is key when dealing with a loss of life. There are several stages of grief, including every emotion that a human being can experience. However, a major emotion to deal with is depression.
It is quite common for people to fall into a depressed state after losing a loved one, but there are ways to cope and combat it. You are not alone, even though it feels that way.
SOME TIPS ...
Tags: death, dying, grief, depression
- Grief Support: Helping The Bereaved During The Holidays
By: Ben Anton | - The bereaved need the support, encouragement and time of their family and friends during the holiday season to help calm their thought and comfort their souls. The grieving often try to maintain the same level of activity as they have in past years even though they may not be mentally and physically ready to do all of the usual activities holiday parties, family get-togethers, shopping and meal preparation. These bereaved loved ones need others to help them cope with their feelings during thi ...
Tags: online memorials, grief support groups, condolences, holiday grief, holiday death
- The Normal Stages Of Grief After Losing A Loved One
By: Chad Wiley | - When a loved one has died, the grief we feel can be the deepest of pains we have ever felt. Understanding the grieving process and the stages that come with it is important for when healing from the feelings of the pain and loss.
The first stage in the grieving process that most experience is shock and denial. It is normal initially to feel numbness and to refuse to believe that the person is gone. Some may even give little weight to the loss, as if its really no big deal, while o ...
Tags: cremation, death, dying, grief
- How To Deal With Grief And Losses
By: Aydan Corkern | - We have many grieves and losses in our live and it really bring us down, whether you have breaking up with someone, a loved one as dead, or is missing. It doesn't happen once or twice, it happen a lot and it happen unexpectedly that you can find them or you will never see them again and it hurts so much to go through that that you don't know what you are going to do, all you know is that you are lost. If your relationship has ended and you thought they had love, that can really bring you down an ...
Tags: grief, losses, death, pain, life
- Take Courage: Coping With Loss This Holiday
By: Ben Anton | - The holidays can be a difficult time for those that have lost a loved one. The joy of the holidays makes emotions like grief and sadness much more profound and harder to cope with. Valley of Life, an online memorial service, is built for bereaved and grieving families looking to honor a loved one in a long-lasting way. A recent article published by the site provides helpful suggestions on how to cope with loss during Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and other holiday times of year based on the ...
Tags: online memorials, grief support groups, condolences, holiday grief
- Dealing With The Fire Of Grief
By: Aydan Corkern | - When a person or family loses a loved one, sometimes the grief felt with the loss of this loved one will make that person's soul to feel like the fire has gone out of their body because they will feel really cold sometimes. Have you ever gone to a cemetery, walked on a grave, and felt goose bumps develop on your body? The funny thing about this is that you don't even have to know the person's name that is on the headstone to have this happen. It happens to people all of the time.
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Tags: death, love, life, relationship, grief, counseling, regret
- How To Accept Loss And Love Your Life Again
By: Mercedes Oestermann van Essen | - If you are past your teens you probably suffered the loss of someone you care for. After all, death is as common as birth but somehow we do not view it as part of the natural process of life. Our culture does not support grieving. Many of us are afraid of death, because we don't understand its innate mysterious and somewhat esoteric nature. Our view of death is formed by social conditioning. We suppress any emotions regarding the subject as best as we can.
Unfortunately, this coping mech ...
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- Coping With Grief: Understanding The Process
By: Ben Anton | - Grief is a common, expected, and necessary reaction to loss of any kind. Each person will experience grief in a different way and, depending on how well they cope with those emotions, they may have positive or negative long-term effects from their bereavement.
What is Grief?
The term grief comes from the Old French word greve which means a heavy burden. Normal characteristics of grief include depression, apathy, lethargy, and sorrow. What is so difficult about grief after ...
Tags: online memorials, lost loved ones, death of a loved one, honoring a loved one, coping with grief
- How To Deal With Grief?
By: Dr. Jennifer B. Baxt, DMFT, NCC, DCC | - Losing someone that a person greatly cares about, whether it is a friend or a family member can be extremely stressful. It can even cause a person to fall into a state of depression because the stress is overwhelming. This is more often the case when an individual has lost their life partner because with the death of their spouse they have lost someone who they have been close to for so many years. That familiarity is gone, as is the comfort and security of having someone around who cares about ...
Tags: counseling, therapy, online, mental health, grief, depression, anxiety, self esteem, help, relationships
- Understanding Parental Grief
By: Annabelle Rox | - It is commonly believed that the sorrow of bereaved parents is greater than any other grief known. The loss of a child is equivalent to losing a part of themselves and they feel that a vital part of them has been torn apart.
There is a certain disbelief attached to the death of a child. Parents are meant to outlive their childrenchildren are not meant to die. The paradox is that the bereaved parents need to go on living yet they also feel the need to hang on to their grief as ...
Tags: parental grief, death of a child, parents grief over death of a child, children dying, death, bereaved parents, bereavement, helping a parent to grie
- Grief Counseling
By: Dr. Jennifer B. Baxt, DMFT, NCC, DCC | - Grief Counseling
The one thing that we can be sure of in this life is death. No matter how healthy we are, or the lifestyle that we live, we will all die at some point. Just as inevitable as this is, we will all face losing someone that we love someday as well simply because death is inevitable. As depressing as this can be, death really is a part of the life cycle. Unfortunately, for those of us left behind to grieve, it is hard to get a grasp on that reality. For this r ...
Tags: grief counseling, grief counseling, grief therapist, grief therapy
- Dealing With The Unbearable Grief Of Losing A Child
By: Randy Gilbert | - The loss of a child is something most parents cannot bear to even contemplate. It is such a horrible thought that most people do not envision it. They feel everything will follow the normal path of everyday life. Their children will grow to adulthood and go on to live happy lives of their own.
Cathy James who lost her daughter in an accident says, "The one thing I would hope if nobody does anything else is, please know that you will see joy. You will see joy again. There is h ...
Tags: grief, loss, proactive, death, coping, heartbreak, unbearable, child, dying, pain, suffering, skills
- 10 Tips For Handling Grief
By: Bill Urell | - The tragic loss of a loved one, the death of a spouse, the break up of a long and fruitful marriage life is full of chances for grief, and can easily be wasted on grieving.
Grief is certainly a reality that we must all face,
but when we go beyond facing it when we sink deeper and deeper into it, we tend to lose sight of other things in life that are more important. We may neglect people who are close to us, alive, and who still need our love. We may drag ourselves to work, ...
Tags: effects of grief, grief, grieving
- What Is The Grieving Process?
By: Bill Urell | - Death is inevitable and is part of the life process. And no matter how we look at it, its one event that nobody ever looks forward to. It is just too painful, too permanent, too traumatic. But then, when death strikes in a family, the loved ones have no choice but to deal with it. No matter how painful, the step-by-step process of healing is gone through, and we learn to live our normal lives again, like it or not.
As we said, grieving is a process. It is a normal and natural reac ...
Tags: grieving, grief, grief process, grieving process
- Remembering Virginia Tech Massacre Victims
By: James Nardel | - Monday shootings at the Virginia Tech spread shock waves across the country as 32 lives were lost. Vanished in a blink of an eye. Young, too young to be gone already. Students of all races, ages and gender, shapes and sizes, professors who gave their lives trying to protect them. Making sense out of death is difficult, but this? How do you make sense out of senseless?
After the shock, came the griefThe nation is united in grief and it is almost palpable. People are reaching out ...
Tags: Virginia Tech, Massacre, Virginia Tech shooting, memorial, condolences, eulogy, loss, grief
- How To Survive Losing A Spouse
By: Martha Josey | - One of the worst things that can happen in life is losing a spouse. How do I know? It happened to meand in the prime of my life
When it happens, many thoughts and emotions whiz through your mind
Only four months earlier, my husband and I had completed a Christian counseling course. One of the major topics addressed was how to deal with grief
Now I was living it.
It is true that there are natural steps we go through in the grief ...
Tags: grief, death, coping, loss, widow, widower
- How To Heal Yourself
By: Jinger Jarrett | - Approximately two thirds of physical illness can be traced to a psychological cause. Millions of Americans, addicted to antidepressants and other drugs, are seeking relief.
The problem is that relief never comes. Drugs only treat the symptoms. They aren't the cure. They don't provide healing.
Psychological causes often include a lack of forgiveness or refusing to grieve a loss. By holding onto past hurts, we're only putting ourselves in bondage.
Forgiveness and grief are nev ...
Tags: forgiveness, grief
- How To Cope With Uncaring Friends After Pet Loss
By: Gary Kurz | - For people who love and keep pets, one of the most traumatic moments they will ever experience is bidding farewell to their furry of feathered best friend. Most pet people imagine that they could not feel any worse than they do during this terrible experience. Unfortunately, often we can, and for the most ironic of reasons.
At a time when we are at our lowest and sorely in need of comforting from a friend or relative, instead, too frequently we find callousness or indifference. ...
Tags: pets, pet loss, grief, bereavement
- Heal Grief Connect With Spirit
By: Amirah Hall | - As the loss of a loved one can be one of the greatest challenges in life and connecting to with spirit can be a life changing experience. Whether you lose a loved one, a relationship or a job, most people feel some degree of grief when such an event occurs. Mediumship provides just one of the tools to help come to terms with the loss in a positive manner.
"As a Medium, I deliver more than messages," Amirah says, "I help to confirm that once our physical body dies, our 'spirit' ...
Tags: self-healing, heal grief, death, spirit medium, mediumship, connect with dead, spirit healings, depr
- What To Do When The Holidays Trigger Your Feelings Of Loss
By: Carol McClelland | - If you've experienced a difficult loss this year or in recent years--a death in the family, an illness, a divorce, a job loss, a natural disaster or a combination of losses--you may find the holidays retrigger your feelings of loss.
In fact, you may be surprised by the depth of your emotions, the clarity of your memories, the details you recall, and how quickly you are taken back to your original loss. The flashes may happen so rapidly that they catch you off guard.
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Tags: loss, grief, job loss, divorce, illness, diagnosis, natural disaster, hurricane, death, self care, healing, transition, transitions,
- What Is Grief?
By: Ann Estlund | - A friend asked me, "What is grief, exactly?"
I gave him the simple answer: "Grief is the natural response of a body and mind to a traumatic loss." But, I realized that definition doesn't help anyone who has not grieved really understand grief, nor does it alleviate grief for anyone experiencing it. Whether we care about our own or someone else's grief, we must study the process and its symptoms to be helpful.
Symptoms can include feelings of despair, depression, h ...
Tags: grief, loss, grieving, widow, widowhood, widows
- Good Stages Of Grief?
By: Ann Estlund | - Most widows go through a crazy emotional rollercoaster as they move from one stage to another. One moment they are flying high and the next they are sinking morosely into a pit. They can be on level ground one minute, but the next may find them perching warily on a high wire or chugging up a hill and churning up a pot of steam, ready to blow at the first turn.
Looking back on my own years of grief, and writing articles, a book* and two websites** about it, I believe that each sta ...
Tags: grief, grieving, loss, widow, widows, widowhood
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