Understanding and Managing Grief, July 24 - July 30, 2011

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

• Why sometimes it's harder to receive than to give, http://dlvr.it/dHCXf via @ChelseaHanson

• Sitting Shiva: Jewish sacred 7-day mourning practice, http://ow.ly/5Q94I via @VillageMemorial

• How to enjoy a moment of relief from stress, http://bit.ly/oJPi8p by @BodyAwareGrief

• Grief and ice cream: Honesty is the best policy, http://wtim.es/oHUB0w via @WTCommunities

• On getting real with kids when illness and death come calling, http://t.co/Uyn58vL by @Annie_Fox

Caregiving and Hospice, July 24 - July 30, 2011

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

• When a Person With Alzheimer's Eats - Tips to make it easier, http://ow.ly/5QDB1 via @VillageMemorial

• Connect with peers and social workers via discussion boards, Skype and chat, http://bit.ly/la7rCx by @alzfdn

• List of caregivng blogs at The CareGiver Partnership, http://ow.ly/5QkUc via @CaregiverTweets

• Dementia diagnosis affects the entire family, http://ow.ly/5PSzD via @ctffox @villagememorial

• How to get access to loved one's health records, http://aarp.us/pe72ax by @AARP

Teen Grief: Mourning the Death of a Parent

A reader writes: I lost my dad 6 months ago. He had a tumor in his pancreas that was discovered two years before that. He was told he had cancer on my 13th birthday. He had many operations, and cancer treatments like chemotherapy, but after a long struggle he died in a hospice in our city. I live with my mother and my 7-year-old brother. We are happy, but I feel really sad sometimes, because I miss my dad. I was very close to him, and we were very alike in the way we were both mechanical. He was a professor of engineering and he wrote many articles and textbooks. I am very proud of him. I boast about him a lot, and it makes me feel better to know that he did something in his life that was so fantastic – or I think so anyway.  It’s just gone past 6 months since he died, and I’m beginning to feel very sad a lot of the time.  Read on here >>>

Coping with Pet Loss, July 17 - July 23, 2011

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

• New Pet Loss Resource Guide, http://ow.ly/5KG3a via @VillageMemorial

• So important; please share! Preventing pet heatstroke, http://t.co/9mkjTiJ via @PetsforPatriots

• Tears of Sorrow, http://t.co/U0uq0Fx via @PawsWhiskersWag

• Stress of making end-of-life decisions applies to pet loss too, http://t.co/lahn7fa via @PetDecisions @PsychAddiction

• Beautiful! Let me die like my dog: Boo 1996-2011, http://ow.ly/5Iw6I by @SBSwenson

Understanding and Managing Grief, July 17 - July 23, 2011

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

• Coping with Anxiety in Grief | Open to Hope Foundation, http://bit.ly/qxnuN1 

• Flower essences to use when healing from #grief: http://t.co/jv6t1yj via @ChelseaHanson

• Important! Explaining daddy's suicide to children, http://bit.ly/o2guig

• Grief After Suicide: An Interview With Dr. Jack Jordan, psych.ly/oDzSW7 via @psychcentral

• Heartache To Healing's grief poetry contest; click link here for details, http://bit.ly/kOjkVl by @JoanneFunch

Caregiving and Hospice, July 17 - July 23, 2011

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

• NHPCO President, CEO addresses recent media attention on hospice, http://bit.ly/oOeh4g

• Not just for patient, hospice teaches families to cope too, http://bit.ly/qvnRaA via @hospice_mktg

• When and how to have "the talk," http://bit.ly/rp1LUx via @hospicepharmacy

• Marriage And Relationships: How Caregiving Couples Make It Work, http://ow.ly/5J6Rt via @TCAsstLiving

• Build a Plan for Parental Caregiving, http://ow.ly/5JGLv via @ctffox

Tools for the "New Normal" Journey

This announcement comes to us from Jim Schwartz, CFP, President, WCESS:

Weekend Conference for Bereaved or Widowed Spouses and Partners
October 28-30, 2011
Tempe, Arizona

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Phyllis Silverman,
author of Widow to Widow,
Continuing Bonds,
A Parent's Guide to
Raising Grieving Children,
Never Too Young to Know,
and Living with Dying

A safe environment to meet others who've also lost a spouse or partner.

Friday evening Ice Cream Ice Breaker.  More than 20 speakers Saturday and Sunday presenting a wide array of practical topics, including:

• Coping Strategies

• Dating and New Relationships

• Men's Grief

• Journaling Your Way through Grief

• Long-Term Care Insurance

• Parenting Grieving Children

• Car Care 101

• Family Issues

• Operating Your Home

• Self Care

• Legal and Tax Issues

• Health Insurance

• Mortgage Basics

• Complex Grief

• Bankruptcy

• Getting through the Holidays

• Remembrance Ceremony

• Cooking for One

• Growing through Adversity

• Dealing with DGI's (people who Don't Get It)

• Financial Organization

• Financial Security

Sponsored by WCESS - Widowed Community Education & Support Services, Inc.
Learn more or register at Widowed Community.org

Caregiving and Hospice, July 10 - July 16, 2011

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

• Benefits of Hospice and Palliative Care with Scott Irwin, MD, PHD, http://bit.ly/nslPvi 

• HFA develops free online webinar, Addressing Cultural Diversity in Hospice Care, http://bit.ly/ribaMk via @hospice_news

• Must read! Beware of This Financial Advice About Aging Parents http://bit.ly/nVj445 #caregiving via @ShelleyWebbRN

• Thoughtful piece on hospice by Chris Langston, http://bit.ly/r4Pc27 via @HartfordFdn @NHPForum @davidccolby 

• Honoring mother's wish for natural death without feeling remorse, http://trib.in/oOoyQ2 via @Robert_Fried

Understanding and Managing Grief, July 10 - July 16, 2011

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

• 3 Steps to Cultivate Hope, Compassion and Healing http://bit.ly/p7BGl8

• We knew that! Pets Provide Emotional, Social Support to Owners, http://bit.ly/qQGu81

• Thoughts on Memories, Grief and Loss | World of Psychology, http://bit.ly/p5dpwP

• Helping Another in Grief, http://ow.ly/5yLgz by Grief Counselor @griefhealing via @Selfhealingexpr

• Resilience and Helping Children Survive Divorce, http://t.co/lKZ1GO9 via @huffingtonpost @NewGrief

Coping with Pet Loss, July 10 - July 16, 2011

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

• Beautiful! Memoralizing Our Beloved Animals by Teresa Wagner, http://bit.ly/njOCDI

• How Laurel Lagoni helps with the grief of pet loss with ClayPaws, http://bit.ly/oK6N32 via @VetWisdom @mhess4

• Coping with unexpected pet loss: a personal journey | The Conscious Cat, http://bit.ly/oYV68l