April 17, 2023 by Kei Okada
When we grieve the loss of our loved one, it is not just emotional. It shakes who we are, and how we live our lives. We sometimes feel as if our spirit or soul were “trembling.” One important part is missing from our life, it changes the entire design of
Continue Reading...
March 27, 2023 by Kei Okada, MDiv, BCC
Spirituality and Grief We all live with loss experiences. We keep losing various things and people, while gaining new experiences, including the experiences of the losses. It affects, shakes, or moves our heart, mind and spirit deeply. How do we express such sensations, from which perceptions?
Continue Reading...
March 27, 2023 by AJ Coleman
How A Widower Faced The Loss Of His Wife, Became A Single Parent and Mastered 5 Coping Steps To Move Towards Happiness As part of the senior year tradition, as a blurb for the high school yearbook, you’re often asked to speculate where you’ll be in
Continue Reading...
November 11, 2022 by Sherry R Schachter PhD, FT, RN and Maria Georgopoulos, LMHC, FT
People often ask us if there are differences in how women and men grieve. We see this most often after the death of a child when the grieving styles of the bereaved parents can be quite different. Sometimes these differences can add yet another layer of depth to one’s grief
Continue Reading...
July 15, 2022 by Ryan Fitzgerald
Selling a house after the death of a loved one can be an overwhelming process. Not only do you have to deal with the emotional stress of losing someone you love, but you also have to take care of all the practical matters that come with selling a
Continue Reading...
July 12, 2022 by Charles E. Schwartz, MD
How can grief affect alcohol and drug use Men who are grieving after the death of their spouses or other close relatives, are much more likely to run into major problems with alcohol and/or drug use. Grief causes terrible stress and unbearable pain from their loss. In their struggle to
Continue Reading...
May 4, 2022 by Isabel Melgarejo
Having a goal -a perspective from The Tidy Coach About a year ago I started working with the sweetest lady you can ever meet. She called me because she wanted to organize her whole residence in specific a room where her mom had lived several years until her passing. During
Continue Reading...
March 10, 2022 by Stanley Kissel, Ph.D.
What’s a path to hidden grief? Memories! Memories are a slippery slope. Holding on to your good memories is natural and healthy. However, allowing them to keep you tethered to the past is destructive. Grieving is a process which usually takes its course. It occurs over
Continue Reading...
August 6, 2020 by Herb Knoll
“How has everyone been dealing with the loneliness, especially in this socially distancing world?” Jeremy asked this question, a member of the Widowers Support Network– a ministry on Facebook for grieving men who have lost their soulmate. The responses to Jeremy’s question ranged from “It’s almost
Continue Reading...