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Confronting a Terminal Diagnosis as a Family

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Cancer, Terminal Illness, Grief, Family, Cancer Patient Support, Cancer Care, Support for Cancer, Breast Cancer Support, Grief Support, Grief Counseling, Cancer Support, Grief and Loss, Cancer Terminal Illness, Emotional Wellness, Terminal Cancer, Terminal Illness Care, Healthy Living News
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.

The challenges that families must face when confronted with a terminal diagnosis of a loved one are complex. They include evolving new structures and dynamics as the person they love slowly slips away.

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Camp Gives Grieving Kids A Place To Heal

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Coping With Death, Bereavement, Coping With Loss, Children's Health, Children, Children's Grief, Grief Counseling, Impact News

Coping with loss can be difficult at any age, but one camp in West Virginia is giving young survivors a place to heal. Camp Nabe, a bereavement camp...

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How Doctors Talk With Families

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Neurorehabilitation, Stroke, Hope, Grief-Counseling, Dealing With Grief, Traumatic Brain Injury, Coma, Brain Damage, Rehabilitation, Persistent Vegetative State, Health Care, Bra Grief Support, Healthy Living News
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.

How do we determine how much reality a family can handle? Or more important, how much are they willing to hear?

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The Power Of Bearing Witness

Judith Johnson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Caregiving, Loving Kindness, Compassion, Bearing Witness, Grief Counselor, Compassionate, Hospice Care, Bear Witness, Grief Counseling, Visiting-the-Sick, Visiting the Dying, Death & Dying, Grief Counseling Techniques, Healthy Living News
Judith Johnson

When we bear witness, we lovingly give our attention to the other without judgment. When we allow another to bear witness to us, we give ourselves the freedom to be known.

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More Adventures in Grieving

Julie Gray | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Five Stages of Grief, Grief Loss, Loss and Grief, Grief Tips, Dealing With Grief, bDeath and Dying, Grief Counseling, Healthy Living News
Julie Gray

You can't go around it, you can't go over it, no, you have to go through grief with wobbly legs. Like patches of black ice, grief takes you by surprise and spins you round the other way.

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12 Ways to Help Children Understand Death (PHOTOS)

Judith Johnson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Five Stages of Grief, Loss and Grief, Grief Tips, Dealing With Grief, Death and Dying, Slidepollajax, Grief Counseling, Death Photos, 12 Ways to Help Children Understand Death, Children and Death, Healthy Living News
Judith Johnson

One piece of fallout from our taboo against talking about death is that we don't effectively prepare our children to deal with death. They are more aware than we know and need support.

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Childhood Loss: The Untold Burden

Lynne Hughes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Death & Dying, Grief Loss, Grief Children, Grief-Counseling, Grief Bereavement, Death Grief, Grief Therapy, Grief Support, Healthy Living News
Lynne Hughes

Death? How did that get in there? It is not an image that comes to mind when you think of childhood. And yet it is a part of childhood much more often than commonly thought.

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Transforming Your Pain Into A Gift For Others

Dr. Paula Bloom | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Therapy, Positive Thinking, Grief-Counseling, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Healthy Living News
Dr. Paula Bloom

How many of us have had the experience following an unexpected death or a shooting that has shaken us to our core? We suddenly feel very connected to what really matters.

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Jennifer Aniston is MIA in Love Happens

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aaron Eckhart, Seattle, Jennifer Aniston, Grief Counseling, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

By the time I left the theater I was grieving, over the time I wasted and the lack of Aniston in the film.

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