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Byron Katie, Author, Speaker, Joins Healing the Grieving Heart National Radio Show January 11th

Posted on January 11, 2007 - by admin

Time Magazine ?100 Innovators: The Next Wave? Byron Katie to be interviewed by ?Healing the Grieving Heart? Hosts, Drs. Gloria and Heidi Horsley on January 11th, 2007. New York, New […]

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How to Remember Those Who Have Passed Away

Posted on January 9, 2007 - by admin

1) Share your memories with friends and family and get them to share theirs too. You may learn things that you didn’t know about your loved one. 2) Leave memorial […]

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“a grieving mother” – Response from Dr. Coralease Cox Ruff

Posted on January 8, 2007 - by Coralease Ruff

Dear “a grieving mother”, 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 […]

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When The Cell Phone Stops Ringing

Posted on January 8, 2007 - by

My wife, Bobbie, and I, were not big fans of the cell phone in the beginning, but we did communicate at least twice a day or night. I was a swing shift worker. She was a day shifter. Earlier in our marriage, we used beepers or pagers. They could get irritating without a voice to deal with, but the price was much cheaper. Then there was the problem of finding a phone to answer the beep. But, all that’s said and done, any communication was helpful, and we were thankful for that.

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When The Cell Phone Stops Ringing

Posted on January 8, 2007 - by admin

My wife, Bobbie, and I, were not big fans of the cell phone in the beginning, but we did communicate at least twice a day or night. I was a […]

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For Widows Only –What We Want/What We Don’t Want

Posted on January 8, 2007 - by

We want our husbands back.

We don’t want your husband, your son, your father, your grandfather, or your cousin’s next door neighbor’s husband, her son, her father, or her grandfather.

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For Widows Only –What We Want/What We Don’t Want

Posted on January 8, 2007 - by admin

We want our husbands back. We don’t want your husband, your son, your father, your grandfather, or your cousin’s next door neighbor’s husband, her son, her father, or her grandfather. […]

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For Widows Only –What We Want/What We Don’t Want

Posted on January 8, 2007 - by Linda Della-Donna

We want our husbands back. We don’t want your husband, your son, your father, your grandfather, or your cousin’s next door neighbor’s husband, her son, her father, or her grandfather. […]

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Poetry Healing: The Healing Properties Of Poetry

Posted on January 7, 2007 - by admin

Grief is one of the hardest things to face in life, and unfortunately it is something which most of us will experience in our time. Writing or reading grief poems […]

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LOSS: Healing After Loss

Posted on January 5, 2007 - by Gloria Lintermans

Loss is a fact of life. Yet, following loss, their needs to be a healthy healing, a healing that allows life not only to simply continue, but with joy and […]

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