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 ...
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 ...
Understanding the Loss of Your Pet The loss of a pet is like the loss of a close family member to many people. For some, the loss of a pet can be felt even more tragically and more acutely than the ...
Grieving the Loss of a Pet When a parent, spouse, child or someone close to us dies, our loss is usually met with sympathy, comfort, and offerings of sincere condolence. We are allowed to grieve. We are allowed to cry. We ...
Grief, Healing and the One-to-Two Year Myth Motrin, Advil, Pepcid AC.
They all claim to work quickly to relieve the physical symptoms of pain and we expect to feel better within minutes. Living as we do in a culture having no tolerance ...
Children and Grief Children often are disenfranchised in their grief. Well-meaning adults try to protect them from the enormousness of loss by distracting them, telling them half-truths, even lying to them about the death of someone they loved. ...
Coping with Unexpected Job Loss Hearing about employment layoffs isn't a rare event anymore. As the economy slows down, more and more businesses are making cutbacks or going out of business. If you or someone you know has gotten laid ...
Hospice: An Option for End-of-Life Care Chemotherapy and radiation had proven unsuccessful, and Jane's ovarian cancer was in its final stages. She knew she was going to die, but didn't want to die in the hospital. Her two young children ...
