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Episode 27: Grieving Styles: Myers Briggs
February 12, 2014
On this show Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley interview Lisa Prosser-Dodds, PhD, Therapist and Author regarding individualized grief responses based upon Jungian personality types, measured by the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator (GRIEFtype). Musician discusses how his grief type is expressed through his music.
Lo Anne Mayer: How Personal Journaling Helped Heal My Grief
January 23, 2014
Raising six children and studying healing for twenty-five years did not help me soothe the difficult relationship with my mother. Mom’s death catapulted me into the healing possibilities beyond the veil. Using personal journaling to “talk” with Mom gave me the tools to deal with the tragic death of our daughter and to discover that mother-daughter love never dies. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2014/01/Lo-Anne-Mayer.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Moving Forward After a Suicide
January 10, 2014
Today is January 10. It is a date that holds significance; it is the day my father died by suicide. It will be 25 years since his passing and yet, this year feels particularly difficult for me. Perhaps it is the realization that I lost him when I was a young woman or that I could have easily gone that way as I was going through my own divorce. I’m not sure what it is. It could just be the haunting memory of it. I remember when I got the phone call. My mother’s friend called. I did not believe […]
Andrew Morgan: Father Loss
January 9, 2014
Andrew Morgan began work on his documentary film “After the End” following the untimely loss of his father in a car accident. This grief pushed him to begin speaking out to people across the country about how they overcame personal loss and found a new direction in life. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/12/Andrew-Morgan.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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George Herald Jennings: Spiritual Dimensions
January 2, 2014
George-Harold Jennings Ph.D. has experienced numerous spiritual events throughout his life. Most recently in reliving the physical death of his sister and through this experience connecting spiritually with his mother. As a psychologist, he believes the mainstream members of his discipline should be more readily open to exploring the spiritual dimensions of being human. He is the author of “Passages Beyond the Gate”. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/12/George-Herald-Jennings.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Laura Krawchuk MSW, LCSW: Finding Your Way Through Parent Loss
December 19, 2013
Laura is a social worker and owner of Healing Concepts, LLC: a counseling practice in West Chester, PA. She is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice and lectures nationally about grief and loss. She lost her beloved dad 7 years ago and has been finding her way through grief ever since. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/12/Laura-Krawchuck.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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The Christmas Tree
December 16, 2013
My mother was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer over Labor Day week-end of 2007. It was a startling diagnosis. She already had Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and frankly, I figured that would exempt her from any further serious lung disease. I was wrong. It was a long fall, with visits in and out of the hospital. Her first stay was over six weeks. Treatment for the cancer took its toll on her liver and kidneys. We weren’t sure she was going to make it. But everyone underestimated her will to live and the fight in her; my mother […]
Lisa Snyder: Death of a Parent
December 12, 2013
Lisa Snyder lost both parents to cancer at 22 and 27. She now works to inspire others through her blog, http://www.LosingYourParents.org; she shares the journey of healing her own grief using creativity and self-expression. https://media.blubrry.com/open_to_hope_1/audio.opentohope.com/2013/12/Lisa-Snyder.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Good Grief: The Holiday Edition
December 9, 2013
Grief and the holidays are a tough combo. They go together about as well as peanut butter and pickles. Awful. Mourning a loss during this season of joyful celebration is an exercise in endurance and suffering. I know of what I speak: I lost my father, husband, aunt, and step-brother all in December—three in the same December. For a couple of decades, the advent of winter left me in a pall of bleak emotionality. I would have been perfectly happy if I could have skipped directly from Halloween to Easter. I would just as soon forgotten Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s […]
