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How to Be Thankful, When You Don’t Feel Like It

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:November 18, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/Healing Through Faith
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November is here—the month with Thanksgiving at its core.  I aim for gratefulness every day, but my heart easily drifts back to the reasons I might NOT feel so thankful—the chief…

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The Caretakers Relief

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:November 10, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/Healing Through Faith/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss of a Friend/Loss of a Parent/Loss of a Spouse
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Grief conjures a multitude of feelings and emotions.  Sadness, pain, anger, confusion, shock. If you were caretaker to your loved one who was suffering a long or chronic illness, feelings of…

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Poem: Web of Sorrow

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:October 6, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing Through Faith/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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There is still part of me that just doesn’t believe it’s possible.  How can my dear one be gone?  How can a person so full of life, warmth, and possibility,…

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Designed to Mend

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:September 7, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/Healing Through Faith/Loss By Suicide/Loss of a Child/Loss of a Friend/Loss of a Parent/Loss of a Spouse
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When I was newly married, just 21 years old, I was involved in a single car accident that left me pretty banged up and with a concussion. It was New…

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The Death of Dreams

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:August 29, 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/Loss of a Spouse
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One of the most harsh realities we might come to when someone we love dies, is understanding that what we hoped and planned for the future is gone, too!  We lose…

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Am I A Helicopter Parent?

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:August 13, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/Healing Through Faith/Loss of a Child
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I had not heard the term “helicopter parent” until a few years ago, when a friend commented that I was beginning to behave like one!  Common sense told me all I…

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Anger & Loss

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:July 19, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing Through Faith/How to Help Someone in Grief
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 “I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free reign to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.” Job 10:1 Emotions of every kind are…

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On Visiting the Cemetery…

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:July 2, 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/Loss of a Spouse
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When it comes to visiting the resting place of our loved one, there are varying levels of what is helpful or even culturally appropriate. When my elder brother passed, my…

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We CAN Know!

  • Post author:Julie Wolf
  • Post published:June 20, 2021
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing Through Faith/Loss of a Child
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There are days that my faith is light (practically nonexistent, if I’m honest) and I have doubts about God, eternity, and whether it all truly is REAL, and if He…

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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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