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The Art of Rewriting The Holidays

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: The Third Chapter, Featured-Contributor, 5 Actions for Rewriting, The New York Times, Tips for Holiday Season, Jim Loehr, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Dr.Gene Cohen, Holiday Stress, The Washington Post, The Power of Story, Thanksgiving, Grief, Death and Dying, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

"'Tis' the Season." The question is, for what? With all the stressors around, what might help this year as we launch?

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How to Teach Your Children About Death, Part 2

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Children, Love, Hope, Dogs, Grief, Life, Death, Living News
Olivia Rosewood

The theme of death this autumn, the season of dying, has brought home the realization that we are alive for now.

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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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Death And Dying: Nature Is Selfish, Get Over It

Deborah Calla | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Tragedy, Grief, Selfishness, Sex-in-a-Hurry, The Full Life, Love, Life, Selfish, Death & Dying, Living News
Deborah Calla

It is brutally shocking when our lives are falling apart and the rest of the world doesn't seem to notice. The first time I experienced this was when my husband was lying in a hospital bed fighting for his life.

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Few Americans Make End-Of-Life Wishes Known

hosted.ap.org | Matt Sedensky | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Aging, Americans, Dying Wish, Dying, End of Life Care, Relationships, Grief, Health, Mourning, Death and Dying, Loss, Health Care, Nursing Home, Death, Living News

Unlike most Americans, Lillian Landry made her end-of-life decisions years ago: no heroic measures to save her and even instructions on the bar where ...

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War Dead and Differential Grief

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Iraq, Grief, War, War Wire, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

This year we have lost a total of 429 soldiers, an average of 1.2 per day, every day of the year, or the equivalent of a Ford Hood every 11 days. We should all ponder that.

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Small Grief and Dealing with The Rainbow Bridge

Matt Budd | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Pets, New York City, Health, Grief, Pet Death, Living News
Matt Budd

It's normal to feel angry, normal to feel guilty, normal to feel sad, normal to hallucinate: That's what I learned recently when my cat Velma died.

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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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Helping Children Grieve

Rose Winters | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Children, Death, Grief, Death & Dying, Death and Dying, Mourning, Losing-a-Loved-One, Parenting, Loss, Anxiety, Living News
Rose Winters

Losing a loved one is always hard. The emotional impact isn't lessened when loss happens to a child. Though the death of a parent is a traumatic event in a child's life, we feel at a loss how to help.

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How To Teach Your Children About Death

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Siberian Husky, The Dead Bird, Children's Books, Children, Goodnight Moon, Grief, Autumn, Steve Ross, Parenting, Dogs, Death, Death & Dying, Living News
Olivia Rosewood

in the United States we have a somewhat less open tolerance for this chapter of being. One might even say that we're still in the closet about the subject. Why are we so tight lipped about this natural process?

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Getting Through The Holidays After A Loss

divinecaroline.com | Joanne Koegl | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Death, Holidays, Loss, Grief, Death & Dying, Living News

When we have lost a loved one, the holiday season can be a painful reminder of how terrible you are feeling instead of bringing warmth, love, and exci...

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Chronicle Of A Death We Can't Accept

nytimes.com | THOMAS G. LONG | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Grief, Burial, Death and Dying, Mourning, The Inner Life, Memorial, Funeral, Death, Living News

For the first time in history, the actual presence of the dead at their own funerals has become optional, even undesirable, lest the body break the il...

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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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Dreamwork As A Healing Path Through Grief And Loss

intent.com | Julie Lange | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Dream Interpretation, Therapy, Psychology, Dreams, The Inner Life, Dreaming, Grief, Grieving, Living News

Within a few weeks of my teenage son Justin's death in 1993, I realized I was in over my head and called a psychologist who had been recommended by a ...

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A Poetry Book Remembers the '07 Shooting at Virginia Tech

John Lundberg | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: School Shooting, Therapy, Grief, Death & Dying, T.S. Eliot Prize, Death and Dying, Virginia Tech Shooting, Virginia Tech, The Inner Life, Fred D'Aguiar, Poetry, John Lundberg, Living News
John Lundberg

The centerpiece of Fred D'Aguiar's new collection of poetry, Continental Shelf, "Elegies" remembers those victims of the shooting at Virginia Tech, where D'Aguiar continues to teach.

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The Spiritual Lessons of HIV

Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Rembrandt, God, Hiv, Grief, Kindness, Sprituality, Survival, Delvaux, Richter, Health, Wellness, Living News
Mark Olmsted

I learned to remind myself, every time that I felt tempted to internalize the societal stigma around HIV, that I contracted this disease in the search for human intimacy.

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DJ AM's Friends & Family Use 12 Steps To Help Them Grieve: How The 12 Steps Can Help You Too

A Compulsive Overeater | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Death and Dying, Dj Am 12 Steps, DJ AM Drugs, DJ AM, Adam Goldstein, Grief, Recovery, Addiction & Recovery, DJ AM Dead, Grieving, Living News
A Compulsive Overeater

After battling addiction for years, young DJ AM (aka Adam Goldstein) was found dead last week with OxyContin in his stomach and throat. He was working...

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Good Grieving

Elizabeth Donoghue | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Grief, General Hospital, Mothers, Escape, Mourning, Death, Living News
Elizabeth Donoghue

I try to honor my mother by my actions. She left her children a note. It says "help each other always." In her honor, I try to be there for my family more than ever.

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Accepting the Death of my Mother

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Aging, Death of a Parent, Death, Mourning, Grief, Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

I reacted just like many others when my mother died unexpectedly last March at 86 after striking her head. I found it hard to get my arms around the idea that my mother was no longer alive.

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Watch: Grieving U.S. Moms Find Solace In Africa

Idol Chatter | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherland, Cope, Dying, Grief, Death and Dying, Motherland Film, Losing a Child, Motherland Movie, Grieving, Death, Living News

Losing a parent is a life phase, something we're conditioned mentally and perhaps biologically to endure. Losing a child so reverses the pattern tha...

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Girlfriends' Guide: We've Forgotten How To Mourn

Vicki Iovine | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Girlfriends' Guide, Mourning, Religion, Grief, Funeral, Death, Death & Dying, Mourn, Living News
Vicki Iovine

The reality is, losing a beloved is life-altering. We recover, but we are never the same. Everyone, if they we lucky, experiences grief and needs the protection and gentleness of those around us.

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My Father's Voice

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Arkansas, Loss, Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grief, John F. Kennedy, Greers Ferry Lake, Blanchard Springs, Batesville, Living News
Beth Arnold

I hadn't heard my father's voice in almost 30 years -- until today, when I played an old tape recording.

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Addicted to the Internet

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 09.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama's Beer Meeting, Internt, Twitter, Grief, Tv, Communication, Media News
Joan E. Dowlin

Take way the stimulus of TV and the Internet and what are you left with? Yourself and your thoughts.

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5 Ways To Heal Grief: One Couple's Heart Wrenching Story

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Healing, Grief, The Inner Life, Death & Dying, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

The one thing we all pray won't happen, happened one day when Art was driving home from a hockey game in Vail, Colorado, with his wife Kathy and their...

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