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Do Women Really Cry More?

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:June 11, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss of a Child
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I have vivid recollections of the days following my brothers murder. My mom would retreat to the small bathroom in our old farmhouse, and weep and groan, for hours, it…

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Don’t Let Go

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:June 3, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/How to Help Someone in Grief
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“You need to let them go.”  Has anyone had the audacity to say such a thing to you?   What kind of statement is that?   Let them go.... No, I don’t…

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Year Two

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:May 28, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss of a Child
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As May 30 approaches, I can sense many feelings coming on. It will be two years ago that my eldest, 24 year-old son, Levi, left this earth. It was unexpected,…

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It’s Complicated

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:May 24, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/How to Help Someone in Grief
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Anyone who says grief has been an easy, step by step process...I envy you!  I am certainly not one of those lucky few who can compartmentalize the loss of someone I…

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Oh Brother

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:May 17, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss of a Child
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When I write, I occasionally am challenged with taking something that has already been talked about, over and over again, and making it something new and relevant. On this subject,…

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My POV

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:May 4, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/Healing Through Faith/How to Help Someone in Grief
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We all have our hard stuff, and if someone wants to have a breakdown, let them.   Don’t admonish their temporary weakness by telling them it’s all going to be ok.…

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Words Matter

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:April 28, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/Healing Through Faith/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss By Suicide/Loss of a Child/Loss of a Friend/Loss of a Parent
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I’ve enjoyed reading and writing since I was a child. I thank my mother for that!  It is surely in the genes—she read constantly, and had hopes of her own…

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A Dose of Sorrow?

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:April 23, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss By Suicide/Loss of a Child/Loss of a Friend/Loss of a Parent/Loss of a Spouse
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Time is a strange thing—an irreversible continuum at whose mercy we live and breathe.  Days can seem like just moments, and hours like weeks. At no time is this vexing…

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All The Feelings

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:February 21, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss of a Child
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If there is one thing I have learned so far on this journey, it is that grief is fluid. What I mean is that my feelings can range from deciding…

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Grief upon Grief

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:February 1, 2021
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Today, I just can’t... It’s one of those days where it all culminates and puts me into an almost paralyzed state.    Compounded grief—ever heard of it?   The definition of…

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