Grief and Loss Articles

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• Tips for Talking to Students About a School Shooting
  During the tragedy of a school shooting, many times people are uncertain what to say or how to react to teens and young adults when faced with the enormity of the situation. People are dead. ...
• Preparing for Grief
  The death of someone close to us is the most severe stressor imaginable. Bereavement brings a high risk of mental and physical health problems for a long time afterward. Grieving is a completely natural process, but ...
• Tips for Coping with Organizational Change
  Downsizing. Reinventing. Reorganizing. Merging. Acquiring. Joint venturing. Relocating. Restructuring. Many of these have become euphemisms for removing significant numbers of employees from a company's payroll. Whether you are among those laid off or those who remain ...
• Aging Parents and Your Emotional Well-Being
  Browse the bookstore. Check the Web. You'll find extensive information about how to assist your aging parents. What you're unlikely to find, however, is help for the myriad feelings you will experience as your mom ...
• Dividing Things, Not Families
  It was 10:45 on a warm summer day. Outside a stately mansion, parked on either side of the front door, were two large moving vans. Inside, the two van drivers and their assistants were becoming ...
• The 15 Myths about Pet Loss
  "I didn't know anyone else felt as deeply as I do towards animals" a number of people have confided in me. When it comes to your love of animals, you may not be as alone ...
• The 3 Myths of Grief and Children
  Sometimes adults minimize the depth or complexity of emotions that children of various ages can experience, especially when it comes to the loss of a loved one. Grief is just as real for a child ...
• Helping a Loved One Cope with Loss
  Before the Funeral... Offer to notify his family and friends about funeral arrangements ...
• Your Health and Grief
  The loss of a loved one is a life-shattering experience. But unbeknownst to many, it affects us physically as well as emotionally. The grief a person experiences is felt on an emotional level. The resulting ...
• Making the Best of a Bad Situation
  "Making lemonade out of lemons" was an adage I had heard all of my life, but until I was faced with what looked like the worst nightmare of my life, it really had no meaning ...
• The Next Relationship: Rebounds and Replays
  People often get into a new relationship during the painful ending of their marriage or soon after their divorce. How wonderful it feels to be desired and appreciated, to no longer feel rejected. What a ...
• Talking to Your Children About Divorce
  One of the most painful and important events in the divorce process is telling the children about your plans to end the marriage. In this act, the marital problem moves beyond the marriage, affecting loved ...
• Riding the Emotional Roller Coaster of Divorce
  Divorce is an emotional roller coaster, that’s for sure. There is no way around it. People can tell you that these emotions come and go, and that, with time, they become less intense, and they ...
• Kids and Divorce: Ten Tough Issues
  Children have an especially difficult time with divorce. Many times, parents neglect to consider the ramifications of the effects of the divorce on their children. Understanding how children will view the divorce and the resulting ...
• Graduation Day: A Primer for Badly Divorced Parents
  Graduation day has finally arrived, and families are coming together to wish their young people well as they mark an important milestone in their lives. For some families, hopefully most families, graduation day brings pride, ...
• Giving Your Marriage a Second Chance
  If you are considering divorce, this means, of course, that your marriage isn’t working. And that raises all sorts of questions about you and your marriage that are emotionally difficult — you may be filled with ...
• Getting Support While Going Through Divorce
  The feeling of being alone and isolated can be devastating. Support from friends and family is crucial. If you are in need of support, here are some suggestions: Acknowledge your need for support. Put aside the ...
• Extremities: The Pain and Promise of Divorce
  As the divorce process unfolds, especially within the first several months, you will probably go through a series of emotional extremes. The divorce, as it tears apart the fabric of your marriage, will probably tear ...
• Divorce and the Unexpected Reversal
  You have just begun putting a new life together, having somehow gotten through the most painful experience of your life. The extreme feelings of hurt and anger and fear are subsiding. The emotional roller coaster ...
• On Socks and Other Sacred Objects – The Grieving Process
  "I used to complain about all of the laundry that my son generated, especially the socks. He used to change them about three times a day because he was so active. A few weeks after ...
• Keeping the Dream Alive
  Presidents' Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day bring to mind the fact that national leaders have the ability to affect the well-being of many, many people. Such commemorations also offer us an opportunity to ...
• How Men Grieve
  Let my pain be unacknowledged, Let my wit resilient be, Let him never know the difference His indifference made to me. — Dorothy ...
• Choosing Euthanasia for Your Pet
  There is no simple way to accept when you need to make a decision regarding ending the life of your pet. This kind of purposeful death is called "euthanasia," and which many people refer to ...
• Explaining the Loss of a Pet to a Child
  Children are capable of understanding, each in their own way, that life must end for all living things. Support their grief by acknowledging their pain. The death of a pet can be an opportunity for ...
• The 5 Stages of Loss and Grief
  The stages of mourning are universal and are experienced by people from all walks of life. Mourning occurs in response to an individual's own terminal illness or to the death of a valued being, human ...