Mourning

How Grief Works

Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Bereavement, Change, Grief, Mourning, Dealing With Death, Loss, Love, Grieving, Death, Dealing With Grief, Emotional Wellness, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News
Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW

Living with loss has no closure on pain but, thankfully, it also has no closure on love. Transcending loss is the process of learning to live with love and loss side by side in a way that brings greater meaning and purpose into our lives.

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Mourning Around The World

KidSpirit | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Hindu Mourning, Jewish Mourning, Religious Traditions, Catholic Mourning, Mourning, Buddhist Mourning, Christian Mourning, Religious Rituals, Muslim Mourning, Mourning Rituals, Death & Dying, Religion News
KidSpirit

Almost every religion or culture has its own traditions involving mourning. They all ultimately achieve the same thing, which is coming to terms with death.

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Etan Patz And 5 Lessons That Loss Can Teach

Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Living With Loss, Loss, Grief, Life Lessons, Death & Dying, Judaism, Etan Patz, Mourning, Religion News
Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D.

The pain of my childhood loss became something I could no longer deny, and I made a vow to turn my own life-long struggle to learn how to live with grief and loss into lessons that would guide the rest of my life.

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Reflections on Tragedy, Mourning and The Rising

Craig Werner | Posted 05.23.2012

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Craig Werner

What did a chronological assessment of Bruce Springsteen's albums have to do with making me a "good person?" I found the answer in The Rising. It's the understanding, solidarity and empathy that music can provide following tragedy.

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Getting Older Without My Mother

Wendy Litner | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Grief, Mothers, Mothers and Daughters, Mother's Day Without Mom, Mom's Death, Mourning, Stages of Grief, Mother's Day, Grief and Loss, Mothers-Day-Pkg, Women News
Wendy Litner

While my mother no longer knows me, she needn't be here to love me.

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Death Is Not The End

Anne Peterson | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Dying, Spirit, Grief, Death & Dying, Emotional Wellness, Moving On, Mourning, Healthy Living Spirit, Spirituality, Grieving, Death, Home News
Anne Peterson

More than just the celestial signs we seek solace in, death offers a profound internal experience. While I have physically lost of my father, I am emotionally closer to him.

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Why Count The Omer In Sadness?

Joshua Stanton | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Mourning, Counting the Omer, Shavuot, Omer 2012, Passover, Mindfulness, Torah, Judaism, Religion News
Joshua Stanton

This year, I will be counting the Omer and working to prepare myself for Shavuot. But I will harness, rather than abstain from, the joy that inspires so many of my reflections.

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'Desperate Housewives': MJ Tries To Process Mike's Death

Posted 05.25.2012

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As Marc Cherry steers his "Desperate Housewives" (9 p.m. ET on ABC) closer to its series finale, fans are starting to notice a trend. Every week seems...

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What Not to Say to a Griever (And What You Should Say or Do Instead)

Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Mourning, Bereavement, Dealing With Death, Loss, Dealing-With-Grief, Grief, Grief Loss, Loss and Grief, Gps-Soul, Emotional Intelligence, Grief Support, Healthy Living News
Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW

Grief is one of the most universal of human experiences. Virtually every single person you know, including yourself, will eventually lose a loved one.

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Dating Again After His Death Is Hard ... But Sex Is Even Tougher

Litsa Dremousis | Posted 04.28.2012

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Litsa Dremousis

Even months afterward, I felt so entirely asexual that when a friend asked me who I would sleep with next, I nearly vomited.

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Whitney Houston and Jeffrey Zaslow: Two Shining Media Stars

BJ Gallagher | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Mourning, Storytelling, Whitney Houston, Media, Jeffrey Zaslow, Inspiration, Death, Celebrity News
BJ Gallagher

While she sang other people's songs, he wrote other people's stories. Both achieved worldly success, endearing themselves to millions along the way.

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Mourning John Hick: One Of The Greatest Theologians Of Our Time

Joe Winkler | Posted 04.15.2012

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Joe Winkler

Hick taught instead of preached ... Hick freed so many of us from the chains of our dogma to embrace our fellow human beings.

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Ask Pastor Paul: Answering Questions About The Afterlife

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 04.08.2012

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Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Dear Pastor Paul, When I was eight I was taught two things in the same week. The first was that accepting Jesus was the only path to heaven; and the second was that there were a billion people in China who had never heard the name Jesus.

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Sitting Shiva For Traditional Shiva

Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 03.25.2012

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Rabbi Jason Miller

It is certainly more convenient to post a quick sentence or two of condolence on the mourner's Facebook Wall, but that shouldn't preclude us from performing the tradition acts of comforting the mourners.

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My Secret Grief

Melanie Notkin | Posted 03.13.2012

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Melanie Notkin

The grief hit me in my mid-thirties without warning. By all appearances, my life was fantastic, but there were nights when I would cry for hours. I was in mourning, but I didn't know it.

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Can You Really Die From A Broken Heart?

www.thirdage.com | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Mourning, Health Post50, Bereavement, Broken Heart Syndrome, Loss, Broken Heart, Heart Attack, Heart Failure, Fifty News

Broken heart syndrome doesn’t just exist in fairy tales. According to a new study published the Journal of the American Heart Association, heart att...

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Getting Over A Breakup? Remember This

Amy Chan | Posted 02.11.2012

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Amy Chan

I've realized that all I can do is be a source of love myself, to embrace the love around me, cherish it and share it with others. That is my source of joy.

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Courage is Having the Strength to be Vulnerable

Amy Chan | Posted 02.11.2012

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Amy Chan

True courage is not blocking out your emotions, it's having the strength to deal with them.

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Katherine Bindley

Michelle Duggar Miscarries, Plans To Name The Baby

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 12.14.2011

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Michelle Duggar, the mother of America's biggest family -- or at least its most well-known one, thanks to reality television -- was five months into h...

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The Most Important Thing To Do After A Split

Amy Chan | Posted 01.16.2012

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Amy Chan

You'd think one would get better at breakups after going through a few. In all honesty, it doesn't get easier.

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Easy Holiday Planning For Caregivers

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Mourning, Holiday Grief, Grieving, Death & Dying, Holiday Grief Tips, Terminal Illness, Mourning and Holidays, Grieving and Holidays, Caregiving, Healthy Living News
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.

Family traditions are the glue that keep a family connected over time. They are also a way that families traditionally have weathered crises, including terminal illness in a loved one.

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Dancing Under the Country Club Sprinklers

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 01.08.2012

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

My mother grabbed my hand and we danced under the sprinklers beneath a small town starlit sky. Cold short grass sprang back beneath my toes. It was one of the most joyous moments of my life.

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I'll Always Have a Mommy

Helen Davey | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Parental Loss, Mourning, Traumatic Loss, Loss and Grief, Grieving Process, Grief, Dealing With Grief, Grieving Parents, Mourning Parents, Parents News
Helen Davey

When my mother died, I turned to writing to make sense of it all. I'm hoping I can give solace to others in similar situation with an aging mother or father who for most of their life has been their only parent.

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The One We Left Behind

Dara Pettinelli | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Coping With Grief, Dara Pettinelli, Donnie Pettinelli, Mourning, Suicide, Losing a Brother, Losing a Sibling, Slidepollajax, Women News
Dara Pettinelli

It wasn't until after Donnie died that I could admit how much of him I saw in myself.

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Does This Mean I Don't Have a Mommy Anymore?

Helen Davey | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Parental Loss, Mourning, Traumatic Loss, Death of Mother, Grief, Fifty News
Helen Davey

As a psychoanalyst who writes about trauma, I recognize that the death of my mother transports me back into that old, familiar, traumatized state, and I feel, once again, eight years old and bereft.

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