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    How to Survive a Memorial Service by Eating All the Cookies

    Tuesday, July 12, 2022

    Dad Helped Plan His Memorial Service We had a memorial service for my dad. He helped plan the shindig. He picked the songs for the video slideshow, asked me to […]

    Tags funerals, grief, Multiple Deaths, suicide

    Category Death of a Parent, Death of a Sibling, Open to Hope

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    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

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    Special Topics, Your Grief

    At Thanksgiving, Say Their Names

    Friday, November 25, 2016

    This article was first published on Open to Hope in 2010. Thursday will be the 21st Thanksgiving I’ve lived through following the death of my 18-month-old daughter Erin in 1990.  […]

    Tags grief, hope, Multiple Deaths, signs and connections

    Category Special Topics, Your Grief

    Death of a Child, Special Topics, Your Grief

    What Bereaved Families Can Expect – Interview with Harriet Sarnoff Schiff

    Tuesday, December 2, 2014

    HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART What Bereaved Families Can Expect As Time Goes On Host: Dr. Gloria Horsley With guest: Harriet Sarnoff Schiff June 16, 2005 Today I am much honored […]

    Tags grief, hope, Multiple Deaths

    Category Death of a Child, Special Topics, Your Grief

    Other Losses, Your Grief

    Even mass tragedy should be personal

    Tuesday, July 26, 2011

    In recent months I’ve watched tragedy unfold far away from me, in places like Norway and Japan, and very close to me in my home state of Alabama. As I […]

    Tags anger, grief, hope, Multiple Deaths

    Category Other Losses, Your Grief

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    Boarders Without Borders: How New Events Trigger Old Grief

    Monday, May 30, 2011

    Have you ever had an unseen boarder that caused emotional turmoil, penetrating all of your carefully closeted borders and refusing to leave? Only recently did I recognize unresolved grief as […]

    Tags belongings, funerals, money, Depression, guilt, Multiple Deaths, signs and connections

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    After Hospice Experience, Woman Volunteers

    Sunday, May 29, 2011

    I had been thinking about becoming a hospice volunteer for a while.  It would come to me as a passing thought every now and then. I would consider it for […]

    Tags belongings, funerals, money, Multiple Deaths, signs and connections

    Category Open to Hope

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    Grief Has Its Own Timetable

    Wednesday, April 20, 2011

    After the death of someone we love, our grief experience and overall healing has everything to do with our relationship to the deceased, the intensity and depth of the love […]

    Tags Depression, Multiple Deaths

    Category Open to Hope

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    The Comfort of a Red Cardinal in Wintertime

    Tuesday, April 12, 2011

    Losing four family members within nine months has been, and continues to be, the most challenging experience of my life.  My daughter and father-in-law died the same weekend.  Several months […]

    Tags Depression, Multiple Deaths, signs and connections

    Category Open to Hope

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    Playing Hide-and-Seek with Grief

    Wednesday, March 2, 2011

    The church service had just begun and the congregation and guests were greeting one another. A friend, who knew four of my family members died in 2007, approached me and […]

    Tags Depression, guilt, Multiple Deaths, signs and connections

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