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Hello, I’m Mary R. Morgan. Welcome to the Open to Hope Twin Loss resource page. In 1961, my twin brother, Michael, age 23, died on an archeological expedition in Africa. We had shared a bond since before we were born, and I was unprepared for life without my twin, always feeling that something profound was missing. I am a clinical psychologogist in New York, and my practice has included individual counseling with twinless twins and leading a bereavement group for twins who lost their twins in the 9/11 disaster, and I am now on the board of the Twinless Twin Support Group International.
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Mary Rockefeller Morgan: Grieving the Loss of a Twin | Open To Hope Radio
Mary R. Morgan, L.M.S.W. is a licensed psychotherapist and bereaved sibling specializing in working with twinless twins. She lectures on the subject of twin loss and has led a bereavement group for twins whose twin died in the 9/11 World Continue reading
Dressing a Sister for the Afterlife | Post
Below is an excerpt from With and Without Her: A Memoir of Being and Losing a Twin. My identical twin sister, a psychologist, has died in Lowell, Massachusetts, from a head wound inflicted by a former patient. We have brought … Continue reading
Losing My Sister: A Boston Vigil | Post
Below is an excerpt from With and Without Her: A Memoir of Being and Losing a Twin. The piece begins the day my sister, a psychologist, was fatally shot by one of her patients. My husband, Dan, and I have … Continue reading
Mary Rockefeller Morgan: Grieving the Loss of a Twin | Open To Hope Radio
Mary R. Morgan, L.M.S.W. is a licensed psychotherapist and bereaved sibling specializing in working with twinless twins. She lectures on the subject of twin loss and has led a bereavement group for twins whose twin died in the 9/11 World … Continue reading
Twin-Loss: Healing Memory of Early Twinship | Post
Mother announces, “School’s out. It’s time you two had your own gardens. No more family victory garden like we had in Washington. You are old enough to grow your own vegetables. We can eat them at home or maybe if … Continue reading
Healing from Twin-Loss Requires New Connections | Post
So many people are shattered by deep personal grief, by the unique and often unacknowledged experiences of their loss, and by the misunderstood depth and length of their bereavements. The death of my twin brother, Michael, and the different ways … Continue reading
The Bereavement Process for Twinless Twins | Post
When we lose a twin, it feels for many of us like the literal end of our lives. That is true, in that it is the end of life as we have known it since the moment of our conception. … Continue reading
Grief Can Surface Any Time | Post
Denial of grief is common and misunderstood. Grief can wait in the wings for a time to surface, when you are better prepared to absorb its lessons. It can be triggered by other losses. Left undone, grief can wreak havoc … Continue reading
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Loss of a Twin has Huge Impact | Post
Susan Heim, a writer for Chicken Soup For The Soul, asked me to write an article for a twin publication on bereavement geared to the parents of twins. At first it seemed unsuitable for twins to hear about the … Continue reading
Sharing the Experience of being a ‘Twinless Twin’ | Post
The emotions I felt were mirrored in other twinless twins I met. Just listening, for the first time, to other twins tell their story of loss and what it meant for them to lose their twin had an impact I … Continue reading
How Does Twin Honor the Sister Who Died? | Post
Gladys writes in: I just lost my twin sister three months ago to something we now know as Long QT syndrome. She was perfectly healthy and woke to check on her crying baby one morning and fell unconscious and never … Continue reading
Film Review: The Secret Life of Bees | Post
By Linda Pountney – Multiple loss themes run concurrently throughout the movie The Secret Life Of Bees, based on Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Dakota Fanning plays Lily, a guarded fourteen-year old, grief-stricken over the death of … Continue reading
What It’s Like to Lose a Twin | Post
By Linda Pountney — I was taken captive by life and death at the age of twenty-one. My identical twin sister Paula and I faced life together for twenty-one years. We never imagined life without the other. As twins, we … Continue reading
Twins: Connected in Life and Death | Post
By Linda Pountney As a twin myself, the death of actor and identical twin Jon Hager this month was especially fascinating. Jon and Jim Hager co-starred in the old TV show, “Hee-Haw,” back in the 1970s. Jim died of a … Continue reading