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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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Chocolate Love

Bil Browning | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Pets, Grief, Chocolate, Dogs, Death, Romance, Living News
Bil Browning

What man do you know that would pick up nasty bedsheets covered in chocolate vomit and go wash them? That's dedication, devotion and love.

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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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A Grief Observed: Remembering Carol

John W. Whitehead | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living

Read More: C. S. Lewis, Grief, Death, Living News
John W. Whitehead

I now face the same questions that plagued C.S. Lewis. Why would a good God completely disembowel my life? How can I explain the massive hole in my soul left by my beloved?

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Writing Your Own Obituary

Jan Phillips | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Obituary, Genius, Crying, Death, Michael Jackson, Five Stages of Grief, Dying, Grief, Living News
Jan Phillips

We should give some thought to death, particularly our own. It helps us clarify what's really important.

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Here's How We Know Our Feelings Are Real

Christina Patterson | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Feelings, Michael Jackson, Hysteria, Twitter, Madonna, Princess Diana, Grief, Facebook Privacy, Privacy, Blogging, Living News
Christina Patterson

If Princess Diana's death marked the official launch of the Age of Hysteria, Michael Jackson's surely marks its heyday. We're all reviewers now, all critics in the grand opera of How We Feel.

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Namaste, Mama

Farai Chideya | Posted 06.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Connection, Conversation, Consolation, Connecting With Strangers, Strangers, Grief, Grieving, Living News
Farai Chideya

I've cried in the office, on planes, and on the street. I don't do it often, but when the spirit hits you, the worst thing to do is to stifle your pain.

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Mother's Day for the Motherless

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Mourning, Motherhood, Moms, Corporate America, Mother's Day, Grief, Living News
Leeat Granek, PhD

My mother was my best friend and we could spend hours together without ever getting bored or tired of each other. In fact, there was no one I wanted to spend time with more.

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Madonna Is a Motherless Daughter. Give Her a Break.

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bereavement, Malawi, Madonna Adoption, Loss, Madonna, Grief, Motherless Daughers, Entertainment News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Madonna is also exhibiting the desire for love that can never be met. In her career, and apparent need for attention and love, she is the poster child for Motherless Daughters.

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Spring Equinox: Out with the Old Self and in with the New Self

Kelly Carlin-McCall | Posted 04.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Mourning, Spring, Rebirth, Spring Equinox, New Paradigm, George Carlin, Grief, Orhpan, Re-Birth, Death, Home News
Kelly Carlin-McCall

Last Saturday was the Spring Equinox. A period of time similar to a full, human gestation has occurred, and yes, I am being born, again. And just like childbirth, it is a messy and painful experience.

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Death as Mystery: On Natasha Richardson

Marianne Williamson | Posted 04.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Mourning, Natasha Richardson Dead, Grief, Natasha Richardson Ski Accident, Natasha Richardson, Media News
Marianne Williamson

May that thought -- a Truth that casts out all darkness, even death itself -- be a comfort now to those who grieve Natasha Richardson, and to all of us who grieve at all.

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Coping With Loss

Mona Ackerman | Posted 04.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychology, Mental Health, Loss, Grief, Living News
Mona Ackerman

The pain of loss, the agony of bereavement, is legitimate. But I believe that there are other complications that you need to understand if you are to work out your distress.

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Cheating (Economic) Grief Through Solitaire

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Wholeness, Solitaire, Cheating, Phoenix, Economy, Grief, Grieving, Death, Business News
Dr. Susan Corso

I am no stranger to grief. Much of my family has died during my lifetime. I know how to do grief, but this time, I am doing something different. I'm cheating at computer solitaire.

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My Grieving Process: Champagne, Pearls, and Retail Therapy

Marisa Lee | Posted 03.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Relationships, Grieving Process, Grief, Losing a Parent, Personal Loss, Loss, Loss of a Parent, Family, Death, Grieving, Living News
Marisa Lee

I've learned that the loss, just like some of those high school photos, continues to haunt you no matter how much time has passed.

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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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