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Anne Abels story about unwittingly rescuing an aggressive dog, Milo, won a Moth StorySLAM in New York City. She has won two additional Moth StorySL...
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Gemini Adams, E-RYT, C-TREP - is a trauma specialist, yoga teacher and award-winning author who is passionate about unraveling the shadowy stuff...
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Cindy A. Adams, LMSW, became a 34-year-old widow in 1995 with 2 young daughters, 6 and 7 years old. Holding on to her faith, she worked through widowh...
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Greg Adams is a social worker at Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) where he coordinates the Center for Good Mourning, a grief support and outreach pr...
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As Founder and Executive Director of The Skye Foundation, Nicole Alstons mission is as heartfelt as it is hard-won. The New Jersey-based nonprofit...
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Alan Pedersen is a nationally known singer, songwriter, and recording artist. As a bereaved father to Ashley who died in an automobile accident in Au...
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Dr. Gloria Horsley, Ph.D. is a licensed marriage and family therapist and clinical nurse specialist. She is the president and cofounder of the Open to...
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Robs journey began in March of 1998 following the murder of his son, Brendon. I fell hard, I fell fast and I fell deep, just like many other ber...
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Monique Antoinette is a new author who fell in love with her grief after the suicide of her only son. As a Life Coach she continues to inspire people ...
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Bio for Gloria Arenson, MFT, DCEP Gloria Arenson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology. She is...
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Megan Aronson is a writer, mother, spiritual seeker, and self-certified Grief Expert who teaches the art of conscious grieving after developing a wa...
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Thomas Attig is the author of The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Love and How We Grieve: Relearning the World, both with Oxford. He ...
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After a lengthy career in human services and as a mental health clinician, Becky Aud-Jennison now considers herself a therapist gone rogue, creating T...
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I am a science-based Occupational Therapist who learned to communicate with my deceased loved ones even though I had no initial psychic or spiritual a...
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Jenna Baddeley is working on a Ph.D. in clinical and social/personality psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the b...
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ALISA BAIR received double undergraduate degrees in both Music Education and Music Therapy from East Carolina University. She completed her internship...
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Richard Ballo is a national speaker and author in grief and healing and has been a professional writer since 1980 and has a B.S. degree in Journalism....
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Larry Barber knows grief all too well. In May 1993 his wife Cindy and two year old daughter Katie died from injuries suffered in a traffic accident ...
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Harry is an experienced medical doctor who, following a period of running a hospital in the Third World, has worked as a senior GP within the Irish He...
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Mary Bart chairs Losing Our Parents, a registered charity. As her parents principal caregiver for ten years, Mary has first-hand experience in hel...
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After 18 years of marriage and career, we decided to adopt two babies. My oldest had many health issues which after 10 years led to a fatal anaphylact...
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