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Articles about grief and loss (0-50 of 501)
- 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
- Journey Through Loss & Change
By: sumit1 | - We all feel that the world is stable and secure, that change and loss will not come into our lives. When it does, not only do we experience deep shock and sorrow, but our normal anchors disappear. Confusion, numbness, and helplessness can arise. Needless to say, it takes time to absorb these changes. Along with a sense of abandonment and sorrow, anger and struggle often replace the comfort and strength an individual needs. Most have little understanding of what they are going through, or what to ...
Tags: Self Improvement, Handling Grief, internet
- 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 ...
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- Are Heroes Born Or Made?
By: Knight Pierce Hirst | - Hazel and Nazih Zebian were complaining about the recession's effects on their furniture business in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Surfing the Internet out of boredom, Hazel found a story about Abu Sayed. In a misguided attempt to prevent swine flu, the Egyptian government had seized Abu's herd of pigs, the sole source of income for his extended family of 14. Hazel calculated the cost of replacing the 25 pigs; and after several days and many e-mails, Abu received $1,125 via Western Union. Abu, howev ...
Tags: Heroes, Inspiration, Current Affairs, Culture and Society, Women. Men
- 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
- Healthy Ways To Cope With The Loss Of A Parent
By: Flora Richards-Gustafson | - Regardless of age, coping with the loss of a parent is incredibly difficult. What do you do when the person you have known since the day you were born is suddenly no longer in your life? Here are a few ways for people of various ages to deal with the loss of a parent:
ACCEPTANCE
When grieving the loss of a parent, remember it is typical to experience intense emotions like anger, sadness, loneliness, and helplessness, among others. Take the time to adapt to this change rat ...
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- 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
- 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 ...
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- 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
- Saving Wet Documents: First-aid And Getting In Touch With A Document Drying Company
By: Richard Barthallo | - One of the most detrimental damages that water build up can do is on important documents. Most of us will safe keep copies of contracts, insurance policies, identification documents and important publications. And when a flood occurs and these papers get wet, it can cause you a lot of grief and loss. Fortunately, there are methods that can be employed to restore these documents to near-original quality.
If you live in or near a state that is prone to flood, then you will have easy ...
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- 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
- How To Comfort Your Child Over Loss Of Pet
By: Chad Wiley | - The death of a pet is usually the first experience that a child has with death. With the way that society is today, children usually form an even tighter bond with their pet and thus their passing will have a great impact upon them. To them, the death of a pet is like losing a best friend. Of course, this is why it is so difficult to explain a pet's death to your child. With this in mind, here are some tips that will help you help your child work through their grief whenever they do lose a pet: ...
Tags: dogs, cats, pet grief, pet loss, help with pet loss, dog died
- How Vice President Joe Biden Dealt With Grief
By: Abel Keogh | - On November 7, 1972 a relatively unknown lawyer named Joe Biden pulled off a big political upset. By just over 3,000 votes he defeated two-term incumbent U.S. Senator J. Caleb Boggs and, at age 30, became the sixth youngest Senator in U.S. history.
Despite the amazing victory, he almost never took the oath of office. On December 18, 1972 while Biden was in Washington D.C. looking at his new office, his wife, Neilia, took their three children shopping for a Christmas tree. They wer ...
Tags: death of a spouse, loss of spouse, loss of husband, loss of
- Ideas For Widows Or Widowers With Teenagers Who Are Grieving The Loss Of Their Parent
By: Emily McManus | - My father died nearly six years ago of esophageal cancer, when I was 18 and in my first year of college. Looking back on that time, I feel as though it happened both yesterday and decades ago. Death acts as a supernova to memories; seconds stand crystal clear illumined while whole weeks are a blur. Im so grateful that I am blessed with my mom and sister in my life. While we have all traveled our own individual grief journeys, I think that we have been invaluable fellow travelers, meeting ...
Tags: death of a spouse, loss of spouse, loss of husband, loss of
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Sensory Loss In Older Adults: Hearing; Behavioral Approaches For Caregivers
By: Joseph Casciani | - As we age, our sensory systems gradually start to decline. Because our brain requires a minimal amount of input to remain alert and functioning, sensory loss for older adults puts them at risk for sensory deprivation. Severe sensory impairments, such as in vision or hearing, may result in behavior similar to dementia and psychosis, such as increased disorientation and confusion. Added restrictions, such as confinement to bed or a Geri-chair, increases this risk. With nothing to show the pass ...
Tags: sensory losses, hearing loss, caregiver approaches, behavioral approaches, decline in aging
- Weight Loss- It"€™s Main Causes
By: Peter Hutch | - What is Weight loss ?
Unintentional weight loss is a decrease in body weight that is not voluntary. In other words, you did not try to loss the weight by dieting or exercising.
Any condition in which you lose your appetite for an extended period of timea chronic illness like cancer, for examplecan strip you of pounds. One of the most common of these anti-appetite diseases is a chronic infection.
What are the main causes of weight loss?
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- Sensory Loss In Older Adults: Taste, Smell & Touch; Behavioral Approaches For Caregivers
By: Joseph Casciani | - As we age, our sensory systems gradually lose their sharpness. Because our brain requires a minimal amount of input to remain alert and functioning, sensory loss for older adults puts them at risk for sensory deprivation. Severe sensory impairments, such as in vision or hearing, may result in behavior similar to dementia and psychosis, such as increased disorientation and confusion. Added restrictions, such as confinement to bed or a Geri-chair, increases this risk. With nothing to show the ...
Tags: loss of taste, loss of smell, loss of touch, caregiver approaches, behavioral approaches, decline
- Journey Through Loss And Change
By: Brenda Shoshanna | - We all feel that the world is stable and secure, that change and loss will not come into our lives. When it does, not only do we experience deep shock and sorrow, but our normal anchors disappear. Confusion, numbness, and helplessness can arise. Needless to say, it takes time to absorb these changes. Along with a sense of abandonment and sorrow, anger and struggle often replace the comfort and strength an individual needs. Most have little understanding of what they are going through, or what ...
Tags: divorce, loss, death, cancer, illness, grief, parting, psychology, relationships, mental health, transitions, healing, post traumatic stress syndrome,
- Divorce Recovery And Your 4 Hidden Strengths Get The Answer To "how Will I Ever Get Through This?"
By: Jerald Young | - "Divorce recovery" gives rise to thoughts like, "I never thought I'd have to do this. I've never been in this predicament before." Or, "Everything is new and threatening. I feel lost and afraid things will never get better."
These reactions are normal. Recovery from divorce is difficult at best. It is not something we have done all our lives and feel competent at. However, it is important to realize that you already possess all the personal resources necessary to recover successfu ...
Tags: divorce recovery, recovery from divorce, loss, fear, grief, life after divorce, divorce recovery coach, smooth divorce recovery, Jerald Young, breakup
- Divorce Recovery And Loss What Is The Secret To Grieving The Losses Caused By Divorce?
By: Jerald Young | - Divorce recovery is tough enough without our making it unnecessarily difficult, isn't it? Aren't the losses we endure quite enough to deal with without adding more imagined losses to the pile? The obvious answer to these questions is, of course, "Yes." However, we routinely ignore the obvious when dealing with the fallout from our divorce and increase the difficulty of our recovery by assuming imaginary losses to be real.
1. Our Emotion-Based Reactions to Divorce Exaggerate Our P ...
Tags: divorce recovery, recovery from divorce, loss, fear, grief, life after divorce, divorce recovery coach
- Fat Loss, One A Day At A Time
By: Holly Rigsby | - Rome wasn't built in a day and your fat loss won't happen that way either. Don't expect to start eating perfectly and exercising religiously tomorrow. Instead set yourself up for success by implementing at least one supportive habit per week. Make an effort to adopt the premise of "progress, not perfection." By developing awareness that improvement is measured by your daily progress, you can save yourself a lot of grief and frustration from the beginning. Focusing on small, positive steps in eve ...
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- 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
- Have You Ever Lost Something Or Someone?
By: Mark Goodworthy | - Bereavement refers to people who experience the loss, through death, of a loved one or someone who has importance to them. Bereavement is a normal experience in a sense to each and every one of us since it occurs in the course of our lifetime. The loss is very depressing to some and this could lead into inconsolable grief and oftentimes, a long period of mourning. Nevertheless, bereavement causes the immobilization of psychological symptoms, occasionally, abrupt or cause difficulties in the live ...
Tags: Bereavement, loss, passing, passing away, demise, death
- 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
- Journey Through Illness And Beyond
By: Brenda Shoshanna | - Many, many questions arise in our minds when someone close to us is seriously ill. It takes a while to realize that these questions do not have one answer. They have many answers, appear in different ways, and may have different impacts on us at different times. In a sense a finger is being pointed in our direction. These questions are demanding a response.. We cannot be free from answering. Life itself is demanding a reply.
Some of the questions we struggle with are: "How is su ...
Tags: illness, death, dying, loss, grief, cancer, sickness, recovery, doctors, nurses, healing,
- 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,
- Pet Loss Helpful Tips
By: Dalvin Rumsey | - When put in the situation of loosing a beloved pet, many people might wonder whether it is something wrong to have such intense feelings of grief and pain. Most of them are even taken by surprise to see that they feel worse than if they had lost a friend or relative.
The explanation is simple, as most pet owners in the United States regard their pets as members of the family. Furthermore, more people have pets than children, so it should all be clear by now.
Dependi ...
Tags: Online Pet Memorial, Pet Loss
- 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
- Dealing With Grief Over A Departed Pet
By: Anthony | - 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 i ...
Tags: pet funeral, pet loss, pet grief
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