When grief and pain are your daily companions, you have questions. We all ask many questions after a loved one dies. We want validation of and answers to these questions. This uncertainty is a part of our grief process but can there be comfort or relief in this process. We remember the close bond with [...]
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Christmas Grief: Tips for Enduring After a Child’s Death
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December 21, 2011
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Anniversaries, birthdays, special memories and holidays intensify the pain after the death of a child. And although we may have discovered daily tools to help guide our everyday grief, December seems to require special tips and ideas to navigate the days leading up to the holiday dates. The following are some helpful ideas I have [...]
Platitudes: Uncomfortable for Everyone
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November 3, 2011
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Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while so that we can see life with a clearer view again. Tom Bodett When we’re grieving, we all platitudes. You know these: “She’s in a better place.” “God never gives us more than we can handle.” “It must have been his [...]
Sudden Death vs. Anticipated Loss: Two Different Journeys
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May 1, 2011
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Experience: The stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Having experienced grief previously, I assumed I would be able to move on through life after the death of my mother in November 2010. I thought myself well prepared since I had spent the last ten [...]
Mother’s Day Changes in Years After Child-Loss
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May 8, 2010
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January 22, 1979. October 1, 2000. As bereaved parents we look at those dates often because they represent our child. Thinking about this Mother’s Day, I recognize how the meaning of those dates has changed for me over the 9 ½ years since my son Zac’s death. For 21 years, that birth date represented a [...]
Grief Happens: Taking the Risk to Bloom After a Loss
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August 21, 2009
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Life and death give us lessons to learn everyday. If we’re aware, we notice the lessons in the media, on bumper stickers; in conversations and through our experiences, but what do we do with them? Do we heed them and heal ourselves by making different life choices? Or do we choose to stay stuck in [...]
Is She ‘Half a Mother’ After the Death of Son?
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May 5, 2009
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By Chris Mulligan – Apparent in all the media, bombarding my world, I saw advertisements the first Mother’s Day after my son died: The perfect Mothers’ Day gift. Celebrate Mom! Make her day! Surprise her with style. Especially for you, Mom! Delight her with diamonds! Enjoy your special day, Mom… People asked me: What are [...]
‘Noticing’ and Grieving Go Together
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February 18, 2009
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By Chris Mulligan – Learning to “notice” during my first year of grief was more imporant than anything else in helping me survive my grief. It also provided me a major life lesson. I realized that noticing was the vehicle through which I have come to accept my life experiences as well as be able [...]
Enjoying the Holidays … Differently
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October 29, 2008
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By Chris Mulligan – It’s time to party! the television advertisements say this time of year. Party? How could I party when some days I did not even want to get out of bed? I did not want to go to work. I did not want to confront my day. How could I party when [...]
