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	<title>Open to Hope Foundation &#187; Coralease Ruff</title>
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	<itunes:summary>Are you suffering from loss? Feeling alone? Looking for hope? Join Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley, bereaved parent/sibling on their weekly Open to Hope Internet radio show. The Horsleys are founders of Opentohope.com and international experts on finding hope after loss. Their personal journey and the stories of their guests will inspire you and motivate you to again embrace the life that you have been given.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Finding Peace in Your Breath this Holiday Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many of you, I miss my loved one this holiday season and like many others of you, I am still missing my child, my 21-year-old daughter. When we are grieving, we tend to hold our breath or take rapid shallow breaths. Additionally, our bodies secrete the stress hormone, and when the stress is elevated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Canceling a Holiday is Not an Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holidays and other special days are times that we miss our loved ones more acutely.  It is these family gatherings where everyone is joyful that make the void feel more enormous. After suffering through my first Easter, first Mother’s Day, my daughter’s birthday, my birthday and all of the other special days, I knew Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Pain to Ache to &#8216;New Me&#8217;: Healing From the Loss of a Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never in my wildest nightmare could I have imagined that my child, my only daughter, would die. Nor could I imagine living through it. The unthinkable did happen! My 21-year daughter was killed in a car accident in which some construction equipment ran into her car. This tragedy occurred in the Dominican Republic where my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do We Grieve Over a Celebrity&#8217;s Death?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coralease Ruff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Coralease Ruff &#8211; We react so strongly to the death of public figures like Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Princess Diana, whom we do not know personally, primarily because we feel as if we know them. On some level, perhaps we do know them because we may see them often, read about them, listen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contributing Writer Ruff Publishes Book About Daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coralease Cox Ruff, a contributing writer for Open to Hope, has written a new book about her daughter, who died at the age of 21. A bereaved mother and grief educator, Ms. Ruff skillfully combines her daughter&#8217;s biography with a grief book to produce Her Light Still Shines, a beautiful tribute to her daughter and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategies for Surviving Holidays and Special Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coralease Ruff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Coralease Ruff &#8211; Many of us can exhale now that Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanzaa and other winter holidays have come and gone. Some have survived their first big holiday season since the death of their loved one. It is no surprise, however, that there are other special days coming that may be equally as difficult. During these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coralease Ruff: Help Others Deal With Their Losses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coralease Ruff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Coralease Ruff --?]]></description>
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		<title>“a grieving mother” &#8211; Response from Dr. Coralease Cox Ruff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coralease Ruff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear &#8220;a grieving mother&#8221;, I am sorry to hear of the death of your precious daughter. The devastating experience of the death of a child is a life long experience that we all respond to and deal with differently. You question if your husband?s chest pain, GI upset etc can be the result of delayed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grief Quotes:  Grief and Your Health:  Dr. Coralease Ruff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coralease Ruff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Coralease Ruff: What I always say to people about those feelings of regret, sometimes if you write a letter to them expressing those feelings of regret, at least sometimes that can help, because they do wish they had gone to the scene of the accident or gone to view the remains. Because just the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JULY 27, 2006 ? GRIEF AND YOUR HEALTH: TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF: CORALEASE C. RUFF, RN, PH.D.,</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coralease Ruff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Coralease Ruff is a registered nurse and a nursing professor.? She began working in the field of bereavement ten years ago following the untimely death of her beloved 21-year-old daughter, Kandy, in a car accident in the Dominican Republic where she was serving as a missionary.? Dr. Ruff is a National Board member of The [...]]]></description>
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