Understanding and Managing Grief, June 16 - June 29, 2024

Best selections from Grief Healing's X feed this week: 

Cody Delistray wanted to get good at grief. After his mother died of melanoma when he was in his early twenties, he found, as he writes in his new book The Grief Cure: Looking for the End of Loss,“There was no control to exert. No blueprint to follow.” So, feeling frustrated and exhausted, he did just what a mourner who’s also a journalist might do — he investigated. Grief is brutal, but there is value in it, experts say. So why do we try to "cure" it? « Salon

Understanding and Managing Grief, June 7 - June 13, 2015

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

New book from National Students of AMF, We Get It: voices of grieving college students, http://j.mp/1G1EkVG « Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Helping Another in Grief, http://ow.ly/NEvAI « Healing eBooks

So touching: I Wish My Father Was Alive, http://j.mp/1QtC2d5 « HuffPost GPS for the Soul

Caregiving and Hospice, September 29 - October 12, 2013

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream:

Ira Byock, MD: Illness is Personal! http://j.mp/19zfY9s « Palliative in Practice

A physician writes An Open Letter to Cancer Patients Everywhere, http://j.mp/19qmr4x « Ann Arbor News

Hospice Voices, http://j.mp/16VDEqk « Huffington Post

Voices of Experience: Learning To Be Happy Again

Margareta Kubitz

After losing her four year old daughter in a drowning accident in 2009, Maria Kubitz was determined to maintain a loving, healthy environment for her three other children and to continually find ways to learn from her pain. In 2012 she created Alive in Memory, a supportive place where families can share precious stories of the loved ones they have lost. She also volunteers at a local chapter of The Compassionate Friends. Here she describes her struggle to allow happiness back into her life once again.

When my daughter died, the pain was so overwhelming, the thought that I could ever feel any ounce of happiness again seemed ridiculous. In those early days of grief, the mere idea of being happy didn’t just feel impossible, it felt wrong.