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How Are You? – The Impossible Question

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:January 18, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/How to Help Someone in Grief
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“How are you?” I never know how to answer that question anymore. It can seem like a very silly and careless question, when you are going through grief.  Do you…

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Letting Others In

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:January 15, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/Healing Through Faith/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss of a Child/Loss of a Parent
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I love to read. I thank my dear mother, who passed away in 2008, for instilling that adoration in me. She would go to the library and check out at…

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Honoring a Loved One During COVID-19

  • Post author:Lisa Schardein
  • Post published:December 21, 2020
  • Post category:About Grief/Loss of a Parent
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My mother-in-law, Martha Schardein, passed away on November 24th of this year after a long battle with cancer. Thankfully, she did not experience a lot of pain in the final…

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Calm Down, Move On, Get Over It?

  • Post author:Debbie Brodfuehrer
  • Post published:September 19, 2020
  • Post category:About Grief/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss of a Child
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Unexpectedly losing a loved one is hard to understand if you haven’t been through it yourself. It’s hard to describe but I’ll try using a scene from Jaws. I was…

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Suicide in Teens and Children

  • Post author:Karen Buchanan
  • Post published:June 29, 2020
  • Post category:Loss By Suicide/Loss of a Child/Loss of a Friend
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Loss by Suicide in Teens and Children has been heavy on my heart recently as I have seen some close friends suffering these losses. I have been asking myself many…

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Dating After Death: Part One

  • Post author:Debbie Brodfuehrer
  • Post published:June 10, 2020
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss of a Spouse
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After years of suffering my spouse, my partner, my love finally died. My heart was shattered. I hardly knew where to look to start picking up the broken parts. I…

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Post-Traumatic Growth

  • Post author:Karen Buchanan
  • Post published:May 30, 2020
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing
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“Trauma doesn’t have to defeat you. It can be a perfect opportunity for growth. Don’t just make a comeback. Use it as a catalyst forward.”  ~ Matt McWilliams A friend…

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Honor Your Loved One During COVID-19

  • Post author:Lisa Schardein
  • Post published:April 13, 2020
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss of a Child/Loss of a Friend/Loss of a Parent/Loss of a Spouse
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Burying a loved one is hard enough and now we cannot celebrate their life with family and friends? I remember the day that my son, Ben, passed away. We had…

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Grieving Uncertainty

  • Post author:Lisa Schardein
  • Post published:April 1, 2020
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/Healing Through Faith/Loss of a Child
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I’m not sure what I’m feeling. It’s very much like grief and has taken me back to the months that followed after my son, Ben Koier, passed away. It’s this…

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GUILT

  • Post author:Pat Coots
  • Post published:January 9, 2020
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/Loss of a Child
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“We love our children above all else and we never do anything to intentionally harm them.” (Revised words of wisdom from my mom that if she had been living she would have…

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