Talking about dementia grief almost forces definers to lean on ancient Roman Catholic theology. Books like "Living in the Land of Limbo" and websites like that of the Family Caregiver Alliance's, "Caregiving and Ambiguous Loss," articulate the tangled mix of...
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How to Support Someone Who is Grieving
I will let you be yourself. What does this really mean? When I wrote this for the Grief Supporters Manual I thought it was important because as grievers it takes an incredible amount of energy to be yourself, let alone the additional energy of being “not” yourself....
Grief and Joy
Grief and Joy. My whole pregnancy I spent watching my very special friend Marley. I would take her to the library for story time, to the park, to the grocery store, on bagel and coffee dates. I would think of the fun I would have taking Marley and my own daughter to...
Grief Resolutions for the New Year
In getting to know my grief, as in any relationship, there are parts emerging that I want to let go of and think might be optional. One part is the story that shows up about how I should be doing it better or differently. What purpose does it serve to be negotiating...
Opportunity in Grief
I am weeping. I fell again. It is another moment of grief in my life. My losses have occurred over time – sometimes big with intense grief and sometimes little losses over a long time so that I do not even notice until I cannot do something that used to be easy. ...
Learning to Walk Again – Sharing about Grief
I have been a skier since I was 11 years old. I would eagerly save my paper route money and head straight to the hill to hang with friends. I switched to snowboarding when I was 18 and was an avid rider until we lost Marley. Naturally, things that...
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