Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Online memorials offer you a space to pen down your poignant memories and thoughts. In a way, it helps bring together grieving people scattered all over the world. In the age of the Internet, online memorials have become an essential part of the grieving process. One of the most popular online memorials available today brings together parents who have lost their children through disease or accidents. Another one
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.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Since the 1960s, psychologists known as Thanatologists have given especial attention to the needs of the patients who know they are dying. The Thanatologists study and analyze the surroundings of persons who approach death. These psychologists also examine the inner experiences of such persons. These experts have identified many stages that these patients as well as their near and dear ones experience. The Thanatologists have identified the following stages of dying persons, viz., No, Not me! (isolation and denial); Why me (anger, rage, envy, and resentment); If I am good, can I then live (bargaining); What’s the use (depression); and […]
Friday, January 26, 2007
Dealing with Professionals: Death of a Troubled Child – French Smith November 25th, 2006 . by The Grief Blog HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART Dealing with Professionals: Death of a Troubled Child Host: Dr. Gloria Horsley With guest: French Smith January 26, 2006 G: Hello. I?m Dr. Gloria Horsley. Welcome to Healing the Grieving Heart. Before we start our show today, I?d like to deal with several emails that I?ve received. One of them is from a chapter leader in Houston, Texas, and he has bought my ten CDs of my first ten shows and he says that they?re excellent but […]
Thursday, January 25, 2007
My name is Dinah Taylor, mother of one, Jim (deceased) and wife of a university president.? I have always been defined as a daughter, sister, wife, mother, president?s wife; but the greatest badge I have ever worn was that of Mother.? When our son was killed in an auto accident, I lost my greatest role that of Mother.?? Jim was the child I shouldn?t have been able to have.? He came into this world with pneumonia and had a lot of challenges early in life so we assumed he would live forever after combating so many challenges at such a […]
HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART Joining in Memory of Jim Hosts:? Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley With guest:? Dinah Taylor January 25, 2007 G:?Hello.? I?m Dr. Gloria Horsley with my co-host H:?Dr. Heidi Horsley.? G:?Each week we welcome you to Healing the Grieving Heart, a show of hope and conversation with those who have suffered the loss of a loved one and for health care professionals who work in this most difficult field.? As always the message is others have been there before you, you do not walk alone.? If you?re listening to our Thursday live Internet show, please […]
JANUARY 25, 2007 – JOINING IN MEMORY OF JIM – DINAH TAYLOR:? Dinah and her husband, Dr. James Taylor, president of the University of Cumberlands, Williamsburg Kentucky, lost their only child, Young Jim, in May of 1991 in an automobile accident.? After Jim’s death, Dinah honored him by contacting and supporting other parents who had lost children.? Dinah has a strong desire that the community remembered the deceased children of Williamsburg.? For ten years following Jim’s death, Dinah and her husband sponsored a bereavement conference at the University.? The conference was called J.I.M.’s picnic (Joining In Memory).? Join us on […]
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
When you have suffered the loss of a loved one, you may feel quite hopeless and life may seem to have lost its meaning. These feelings may last for months or years. Grieving is a completely individual process, there is no right way or wrong way to mourn the loss of those you love. However, there are several measures that can be taken which may help you cope through the darkest days.
At this point, widowed for about 18 months, I met Hal the night I attended my last bereavement support group meeting. I was instantly attracted to his energy. We seemed to have a lot in common, both professionally and emotionally. I gave him my business card with the knowing feeling that he would call, but I had no idea if it would be in a week or a year. I hold a life’s philosophy that things happen when they should.
At this point, widowed for about 18 months, I met Hal the night I attended my last bereavement support group meeting. I was instantly attracted to his energy. We seemed to have a lot in common, both professionally and emotionally. I gave him my business card with the knowing feeling that he would call, but I had no idea if it would be in a week or a year. I hold a life’s philosophy that things happen when they should.
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