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Christmas Without Carol

John W. Whitehead | Posted 12.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Christmas, Marriage, Losing a Loved One, Loneliness, Depression, Relationships, Grief, Death & Dying, Mourning, Coping, Loss, Love, Sadness, Living News
John W. Whitehead

Unlike many couples whose outside interests take them in opposite directions, Carol and I were joined at the hip. We did everything together. When she passed away, I was more alone than I had ever been.

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Suicide Prevention: R U OK?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Depression, Relationships, Dying, R U OK, Grief, Mourning, Death and Dying, Suicide, Coping, Loss, Suicide Prevention, Family, Death, Living News
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

R U OK? is an Australian national suicide prevention effort that seeks to reduce the rate of suicide by breaking the isolation and helplessness that characterizes people at risk to take their lives.

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Hearts And Souls: A Family Deals With Grief

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Marriage, Emotions, Relationships, Mother, Grief, Death and Dying, Memory, Oscar Wilde, Coping, Father, Loss, Love, Family, Living News
Stephanie Gertler

I cried from beginning to end at my uncle's funeral, and strangely required no place to hide in a room filled with hundreds of mourners -- perhaps because I was as alone as every person there.

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Real Food Rehab: Where To Find Inspiration In Hard Times

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Style

Read More: Creativity, Coping With Stress, Beauty, Inspiration, Living Well, Happiness, Stress, Soul Searching, Depression, Coping, Style News
Dana Joy Altman

The last two years have been soul-searching times. Throw in the recession and the holidays, and that's a lot of pressure. But there's one thing I've learned in my attempts at self-preservation: it's crucial to seek out inspiration.

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5 Ways To Cope With Holiday Grief

intent.com | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Holidays, Depression, Dying, Grief, Thanksgiving, Death and Dying, Mourning, Coping, Losing-a-Loved-One, Loss, Holiday Season, Sadness, Anxiety, Gratitude, Death, Living News

Behind our holiday smiles and good wishes, many of us carry feelings of deep grief.� So how can we have a wonderful holiday if we are experiencing s...

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Alzheimer's: A Love Story

Irene Zutell | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Alzheimer's, Aging, Dementia, Alzheimers, Health, Mourning, Death and Dying, Coping, Parenting, Loss, Poem, Poetry, Wellness, Family, Living News
Irene Zutell

Is there a woman on the planet who doesn't get nervous the first time she meets her fiance's mom? But not only was I meeting my future in- law, I was being introduced to Alzheimer's.

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My Father Is Dying

Judy Wieder | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Bereavement, After-Death, Family, Lgbt, Dying, The Advocate, Mourning, Parenting, Loss, Death, Acceptance, The Inner Life, Death & Dying, Grief, Coping, Fatherhood, Judy Wieder, Fathers, Living News
Judy Wieder

Deep in a rustic canyon, tucked away in the bedroom of his beautiful glass home, wrapped tightly in a hospice hospital bed, buried behind the damage of another stroke, my father is dying.

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11 Therapies To Help Deal With Loss

World of Psychology | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Therapy, Loneliness, Depression, Grief, Health, Death and Dying, Mourning, Coping, Loss, Love, Sadness, Death, Grieving, Living News

When you do something to relieve your feelings and to give yourself a sense of achievement, you are accomplishing your journey through bereavement....

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Broadway Play Tackles Issues of Death

nytimes.com | Gina Kolata | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Broadway Play, Women, Fear, Dying, Mourning, Death and Dying, Broadway, Loss, Death, Grief, Anna Deavere Smith, Coping, Hurricane Katrina, Cancer, Health Care, Lance Armstrong, Living News

Ms. Smith, a tall, imposing woman, takes on the character of her subjects by repeating their exact words, complete with regional accents, ums and uhs ...

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Active Coping Applied

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Career Plateau, Glass Ceiling, Career Women, Investment Banking, U.S. Grant, Coping, Self-Esteem, Integrity, The Inner Life, Goals, Living News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

The best strategies anticipate setbacks, develop options and prepare us to identify solutions. How openly and realistically we perceive problems profoundly influences our chances for success.

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What Happens When You Lose A Soul Mate?

divinecaroline.com | : Catherine Behan (View Profile) | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Grief, Death and Dying, Mourning, Widow, Coping, Loss, The Inner Life, Love, Grieving, Death, Living News

She walked to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee and paused, like always, gazing at the faded photo framed in the hallway. It had been twenty years a...

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3 Ways We Can Control Our Moods

Therese Borchard | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Moods, Coping, Depression, Moodiness, Anxiety, The Inner Life, Therese Borchard, Living News
Therese Borchard

Larry Drain of the Hopeworks Community blog wrote an excellent post on three things we can do about our moods: prevention, coping, learning. He writes...

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When Your Sibling Dies

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Sibling Loss, Coping, Loss, Hope, Grief, Death, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

I lost my Mom when I was seven so I have known since then, just how disorderly life can be. She was there one day and gone the next.

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Lord Shiva Kicks Ass: The Liberating Power of Loss

Dean Sluyter | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Meditation, Recession, Coping, Loss, Haiku, Enlightenment, Shiva, Living News
Dean Sluyter

We're all in this same leaking, sinking boat. It's always been this way and always will. Yet a few people have managed to remain unperturbed. What can we learn from these sages?

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Soul on Fire

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Wildfires, Australia, Australia Wildfire, Self-Transcendence, Loss, Grief, Meditation, Coping, Habit, Inner Peace, Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

Learning to remain relaxed and go with life's flow is a high achievement indeed. Mind-body practice helps, meditation helps, but in the end it is self-awareness that is required.

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Resilience in the Recession: Seven Strategies to Free Yourself from Negative Thinking

Tamar Chansky | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Worry Vacation, Dread, Fear, Worry Time, Kindness, Psychology, Facing Limitations, Catastrophe, Coping Strategies, January, Recession, Holiday, Adversity, Challenges, Help Yourself, Help Others, Post Holidays Depression, Cope With Fear, How to Calm Down, Relieve Anxiety, Recession Fears, New Opportunities, How to Deal With Fear, Self Help, Coping, How to Deal With Anxiety, How to Deal With Stress, Anxiety, How to Cope, Calm Down, Worry, Living News
Tamar Chansky

Adjusting to this new reality means appreciating that just because there's a crisis going on, you can't live in it all the time: in crisis mode there's nothing to do but get immobilized with dread.

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12 Ways To Weather Life's Storms

beliefnet.com | Therese J. Borchard | Posted 10.21.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Coping, Perseverance, Living News

A woman who lives with chronic pain said to my mom the other day, "You can't sit around and wait for the storm to be over. You've got to learn how to ...

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