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Ideas For Healthy Grieving

  • Post author:Lisa Schardein
  • Post published:December 21, 2018
  • 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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First, there are no quick fixes for your grief. Navigating grief takes work. You have to be willing to get out of bed and do a few small things every day.…

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Bonus, Bonus, Bonus, Bonus

  • Post author:Karen Buchanan
  • Post published:December 14, 2018
  • Post category:About Grief/Healing/Loss of a Spouse
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As Richard and I began to talk about sharing the rest of our lives together, we needed a heart check. I needed to be sure I was ready to be…

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Laugh out loud!

  • Post author:Karen Buchanan
  • Post published:November 16, 2018
  • Post category:About Grief/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss of a Spouse
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I spent an hour on the phone with a widow from another state the other evening. She was “stuck”. She didn’t know how to move forward. She had continued her…

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Tips for Bystanders

  • Post author:Lisa Schardein
  • Post published:November 9, 2018
  • Post category:About Grief/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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Give them a HugMost people who have lost a loved one agree that the most you can do for them is give them a big hug. Of course, you always…

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Navigating The Holidays

  • Post author:Lisa Schardein
  • Post published:November 2, 2018
  • Post category:About Grief/Loss By Suicide/Loss of a Child/Loss of a Friend/Loss of a Parent/Loss of a Spouse
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The holidays will never be the same after you lose someone you love. Especially if it was an immediate family member. Many people completely abandon the traditions of the past…

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Longer Nights

  • Post author:Lisa Schardein
  • Post published:October 26, 2018
  • Post category:About Grief/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss of a Spouse
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This is the time of the year when we set our clocks back and lose that precious daylight. It makes for a much longer night for many, especially grieving widows.…

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Run south child…

  • Post author:Karen Buchanan
  • Post published:October 19, 2018
  • Post category:About Grief/Loss By Suicide/Loss of a Child/Loss of a Friend/Loss of a Parent/Loss of a Spouse
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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on asummer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the cloudsfloat across the sky,…

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Do I have to go…?

  • Post author:Karen Buchanan
  • Post published:October 12, 2018
  • Post category:About Grief/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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Several months into my grief journey, I felt I needed to look into grief support groups in town. I wasn’t ready to share too much, but I was willing to…

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What’s with the paddles and a lava lamp?

  • Post author:Karen Buchanan
  • Post published:September 7, 2018
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Several close friends were instrumental in my healing. One person in particular took it upon herself to gently insist that I see a psychiatrist after the loss of my husband.…

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What’s in a monogram?

  • Post author:Karen Buchanan
  • Post published:August 31, 2018
  • Post category:About Grief/How to Help Someone in Grief/Loss By Suicide/Loss of a Spouse
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Several years before my husband passed away, I took gift items to a sweet little shop to have them monogrammed. One of the owners (I’ll use the name Libby for…

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