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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>Deceased Grandchild Sends Dragonflies to Grandma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synchronicity is far more than a rock album. It is the term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychotherapist, to describe the phenomenon in which events are connected in such a meaningful way that their occurrence seems to defy the calculations of probability. Part of my new normal since my granddaughter was born still is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a Father Dies on Father&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father died on Father’s Day 2007. He had been in apparent good health until the night he was admitted to the hospital. That day, he went through his usual routines-swam a mile at the Y, did some errands, sat on the patio with my mother in the late afternoon. By 11 p.m. he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bereaved Grandmother Turns the Corner on Grief</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My granddaughter was unexpectedly born still in 2003. My daughter-in-law had a healthy, uneventful, full-term pregnancy. There were no indications of any problems during her labor. The medical staff was as stunned as we were when Madeline was delivered without a heartbeat. My background is in behavioral medicine, and I have worked professionally with bereavement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Families Crave Remembrance After a Loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fall and winter holidays can be particularly difficult for bereaved families. Marty Tousley is a psychiatric nurse and certified bereavement counselor. In her article, Getting Through the Holidays, she says, “Holidays can create feelings of dread and anxiety in those who are bereaved. The cliched images of family togetherness and the often unrealistic expectations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditations on the Word &#8216;Still&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;But after tempest . . . /There came a day as still as heaven&#8221; (Tennyson) Still. An ordinary word, brief, easy to pronounce. When my sons were toddlers, I often told them to hold still while I was brushing their hair, changing their clothes, bundling them into snow suits. I would ask them to please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I&#8217;ve Never Been a Crier,&#8221; But Now&#8230;.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.” Washington Irving Here they come again. I have no idea what triggered this waterfall. One moment I was driving to work, thinking of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Learns How to Comfort Bereaved Son</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nina Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nina Bennett &#8211; I was used to fixing the problems Timothy, my youngest son, encountered when he was a child. If his older brother knocked down his castle of blocks, I helped him rebuild it. When he fell down learning to walk, I could pick him up. When he tumbled off his bike, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Don&#8217;t Ever Doubt You Are a Mother&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 09:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nina Bennett &#8211; In a monumental moment of synchronicity, I was present the night my beloved granddaughter was born still. She slid into this world without drawing a breath, following a full-term, healthy pregnancy and normal, though long, labor. In a poignant moment, Jennifer, my daughter-in-law, looked at me and quietly asked, &#8220;So am [...]]]></description>
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