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SubscribeHave you suffered parental alienation after a death? Join Dr’s Heidi Horsley and their guest Patti Miliotis bereaved parent for a look at her family’s journey toward healing. It is never too late to heal! Award Winning Photographer and Jewelry Designer. She Co-founded the nonprofit Alex’s Team Foundation and in 2016 joined Barbara Hopkinson in 2016, as part of A Butterfly’s Journey, focusing her camera’s eye on faces of resilience.
Read MoreHave you considered theater as a healing activity after loss? Join Dr’s Gloria and Heidi Horsley and their guest Tysha Scott bereaved spouse and trauma survivor for fresh ideas on shaking up your life. Tysha was a child performer and attended the famous “Fame” High school of Performing Arts in New York City. Today she continues to support the arts.
Read MoreWhen Your Father Dies Have you ever wondered why the good die young? I think about that all the time. It was a perfect Saturday. The couple went to the Bronx, walked around laughing and reminiscing. They went home watched a movie with their kids, but he couldn’t fall asleep. His chest was hurting, he didn’t feel well. Suddenly, he wasn’t breathing. That great man was my dad. How could a perfectly healthy man just suddenly not be there when you get home from school? The thought of what happened that night is always in my head. I wonder if […]
Read More“No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear”– C.S. Lewis This first line in C.S. Lewis’s book A Grief Observed , inspired me to reflect on how I experienced fear during the early days of grief following my daughter Jeannine’s death. Jeannine was eighteen when she died on March 1,2003 from cancer. My fear manifested in uncertainty about my ability to live again in a world without my daughter. I feared that my other children would also die. These fears were triggered because my once predictable ,orderly and safe world was a distant memory. To […]
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