Understanding and Managing Grief, September8 - September 21, 2024

September is National Suicide Prevention Month

Best selections from Grief Healing's most recent X feed:   

In my grief, I’ve learned to avoid resenting others’ inability to understand my loss and focus on sharing the overwhelming goodness of my brother’s character with those not lucky enough to have known him. I love to talk about him and am thankful for friends who give me the opportunity to do so. As I readjusted to campus life in the weeks following Matthew’s death, I realized I couldn’t compartmentalize my grief. There’s never any good time to process loss, and the task is never completed. Being thrust back into mundanity, however difficult, taught me I had to find ways to incorporate the memory of Matthew into each day — with tears or with smiles, with a story about him or a call to my family. I just have to process it everyday. Navigating Grief on the College Campus « The Loyola Phoenix

Voices of Experience: The Lessons We Can Learn from Loss

                      
By Stephanie Harris

The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.  ~  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The loss of a loved one irrevocably changes us. It’s painful, and it’s difficult. 

But as challenging as loss is to endure, it also teaches us lessons about ourselves and our place in the world—lessons we can use to evolve into stronger versions of ourselves and transfigure the pain of grief into a force for positive change.

Here are three lessons that we can learn from our most painful losses.

Voices of Experience: Death of a Friend and the Lesson of Feathers

Feathers appear when angels are near.  ~ Karen Borga

Julie Siri, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker with over 25 years' experience in death, dying and bereavement. She is a seasoned hospice worker, grief therapist, dynamic speaker and educator, having taught several years at Whittier College and as a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California, UCLA and Keck Medical School. Here Julie describes how the death of a dear friend helped her learn one of life's most important lessons ~ that although death ends the life of a loved one, the relationship we have with that person doesn't end; it changes form. And if we pay close attention, reminders are everywhere.

Understanding and Managing Grief, May 11 - May 17, 2014

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

Reflections on 'Mother,' http://j.mp/1nSxUVd « What's Your Grief?

The Challenges of Raising Children after the Death of a Child, http://j.mp/1lwN24r « Alive in Memory

I Lost My Daughter and I Lost Hope, Until I Faced My Grief, http://j.mp/1gIAR35 « Everyday Health

Caregiving and Hospice, March 3 - March 9, 2013

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

ER doctor's perspective on doing CPR on the elderly woman who died, http://j.mp/Y0sGW3

Amid CPR Controversy, Many Unanswered Questions, http://j.mp/XSJVfa « New York Times

5 Ways to Overcome Mid-Life Regret: Tips to deal with could've should've would've, http://buff.ly/XWga9W  « AgingCare.com 

After the Caregiving Ends, http://j.mp/ZiGmf5 « New York Times

Your Death Is Your Headline, http://j.mp/YzOlXq « Anushka Fernandopulle