Understanding and Managing Grief, October 17 - October 23

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

• Contacting communicating with spirits, http://bit.ly/b1uvPB by @pendletonauthor

• The New Grief: Is Creativity the Way out of Mourning? by Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D., http://huff.to/csvl1t

• Does Grief After Traumatic Death Ever End? Grief Expert Says No, http://ow.ly/19AKOV

• Approaching the Holidaze when grief doesn't go away, http://bit.ly/asnWnc by @motherhenna

• Creating a Grief Recovery Bucket List | Open to Hope Foundation, http://bit.ly/cNWQIX 

• Healing through community service and volunteering, http://bit.ly/dbLIrd 

• Men Coping With Grief by Linda N. Edelstein, Ph.D., http://bit.ly/9ujEMa via @tcm007 @addthis 

• Another's perspective on multiple loss and learning to live! http://bit.ly/ai7YRH by @DoyleDiana

• Simple but effective tip: If You're Grieving, Don't Forget to Breathe, http://ow.ly/19zypG by @WorldbytheTail 

• Surviving Halloween and the holidays when grieving,  http://bit.ly/aeds6z by @DoyleDiana

• 25 Inspirational Thoughts on Coping with Grief: Free e-book by Ellen Gerst, http://bit.ly/coLFMq

• Ways to Survive Grief During Halloween Season | Open to Hope Foundation, http://bit.ly/barnly

• He Keeps Talking about the Late Wife http://bit.ly/9bNhmz by @abelkeogh

• New site to help in search for healing from grief http://bit.ly/dyTYKp via @stangoldberg

• Griefwalker Canadian independent film about embracing life by befriending death http://icio.us/eufzxl via @ctsinclair 

• Unexpected healing from father-loss http://bit.ly/bSsJYv via @HelloGrief 

• Is the second year of grief harder than the first? http://bit.ly/btZ77Y by @sbaffone via @soaringspirits

• The New Grief: When Your Family Can't Cope with Your Diagnosis, http://ow.ly/19w5YB via @GriefHelp

• New research suggests adversity builds resiliency: http://bit.ly/cvekAP What do you think? via RT @soaringspirits

• Grief: the most available untapped emotional resource for personal transformation, http://bit.ly/dx3B28

• Pieces of Me: Staying connected to deceased loved one, by Dave Roberts | Open to Hope Foundation, http://bit.ly/b4P6n2 

• Love remains even as closets are emptied: Meaning of Mementos | Open to Hope Foundation, http://bit.ly/cCdQ1Z

• To help another in grief: Share Memories of the Deceased | Open to Hope Foundation http://bit.ly/anlJuC

 

Documentary, Griefwalker

Film, Griefwalker – A feature length documentary about grief and the death dialogue and practice in Western culture, this film follows Harvard-educated theologian and end-of-life care educator Stephen Jenkinson as he provides compassionate grief counseling to the dying, their friends and family. Stephen embraces the philosophy and learned practice of grief as a skill rather than an enemy of life, and demonstrates how learning grief is central both to being a healthy human being and to making a healthy society.

Read more about Stephen here: http://orphanwisdom.com/griefwalker/

Mary Frances Knapp of Seven Ponds Blog reviews the film here: http://blog.sevenponds.com/lending-insight/film-review-griefwalker-2012-by-tim-wilson

For purchasing information, see: http://www.alivemindeducation.com/films/griefwalker/

© by Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC