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    Complicated Grief, Coping Strategies and Styles, Post Traumatic Growth, The Grief Process

    Everyone Else is Carrying on with ‘Life as Usual’

    Sunday, September 13, 2020

    This is an excerpt from the book: Coping with Grief: A Guide for the Bereaved Survivor by Bob Baugher. You can order it at: www.bobbaugher.com   At this time in […]

    Tags coping with grief

    Category Complicated Grief, Coping Strategies and Styles, Post Traumatic Growth, The Grief Process

    Meditation, music, The Grief Process

    Solace in a Birdsong

    Wednesday, January 29, 2020

    There are days when I feel the weight of old memories, heart losses, and traumas suffered along the path of life. What triggers this can vary. So, what I choose […]

    Tags anxiety, coping with grief, Lessons From Nature, meditation, Moving forward, stress

    Category Meditation, music, The Grief Process

    Death of a Spouse, Holidays

    Give Yourself a G.I.F.T. This Holiday Season

    Thursday, October 31, 2019

    The holidays are a time of togetherness and family traditions. It’s even been dubbed the “most wonderful time of the year.” But for many in the widowed community, it can […]

    Tags coping with grief, grief, grief and loss, healing, holidays, Loss, loss of a spouse

    Category Death of a Spouse, Holidays

    Uncategorized

    Can You Grieve for a Place?

    Friday, September 6, 2019

    My husband and I are moving in a month. He is paraplegic. I’m recovering from open heart surgery and have a pig valve in my heart. These factors made us […]

    Tags belongings, bereavement, change, coping with grief, hope, positives

    Category Uncategorized

    Death by Cancer, Death of a Spouse, The Grief Process

    The Stories We Tell Ourselves

    Wednesday, July 31, 2019

    Telling-Your-Child-About-a-Death

    What is the story you tell yourself about your loss? Even as a child, I understood the power of stories. Through words, I could escape into worlds far, far away. […]

    Tags coping with grief, getting to the other side of grief, grief, grief recovery, hope, Moving forward, widow

    Category Death by Cancer, Death of a Spouse, The Grief Process

    Death of a Child

    After Loss: Fear Can Be An Asset to Grieving Individuals

    Tuesday, July 30, 2019

      “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 […]

    Tags Animal Teachings, coping with grief, Dave Roberts, fear, Jamie Sams, Jeannine Roberts

    Category Death of a Child

    Death by Cancer, Death of a Spouse

    Being Exquisitely Seen

    Wednesday, May 29, 2019

    Books Saved Me I’ve been a lover of words and books and writers since childhood. I treasure the way we can be educated, transported, and transformed through what we read […]

    Tags acceptance, bereavement, coping with grief, getting to the other side of grief, healing, Moving forward, spouse loss, widow

    Category Death by Cancer, Death of a Spouse

    Anniversaries, Birthdays, Holidays, The Grief Process

    Turning Less Into More

    Wednesday, May 15, 2019

    Well, that was unexpected. It seems, even when dozens and dozens of years have passed, grief, and what triggers it, can still surprise me. I’m writing this on Mother’s Day. […]

    Tags coping with grief, getting to the other side of grief, grief, grief and loss, hope, Multiple Deaths, widow

    Category Anniversaries, Birthdays, Holidays, The Grief Process

    Death of a Child, The Grief Process

    The Wound Time Won’t Heal

    Sunday, February 10, 2019

    Time heals all wounds. We’ve all heard it. Sounds incredibly hopeful for someone who’s drowning in grief. Except when time doesn’t heal your wound.  Not enough time. It’s been years […]

    Tags coping with grief, death of a child, grief, time heals all wounds

    Category Death of a Child, The Grief Process

    Death of a Child

    Adrift in A Sea of Grief

    Monday, November 5, 2018

    I am adrift in an endless sea of grief. As I float along, the world continues to go on around me as if I am walking among the bustling crowds—but […]

    Tags coping with grief, death of a child, healing, Moving forward

    Category Death of a Child

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