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Gardening through Grief

Lately I find myself wishing that winter would be over, and spring would hurry up and get here. Grief is tough enough without being cooped up inside my house all winter long. There is something to be said about the birds chirping and flowers blooming every year. Spring allows me to open my windows and [...]

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Have you ever wished

Have you ever wished that your spouse could come back for just a few minutes? I sometimes wonder what they would say to us about how we are handling their death and everything else since they died. My eyes begin to water just thinking about it. I wonder if they will know how broken we’ve [...]

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Your Grief Ain’t Like Mine: Dimensions of Grief Support

The National Alliance for Grieving Children (NCAG) blog gives the perspective of someone whose father died when she was a teenager and her grief  journey .  When she was 30 years old she suddenly became aware of where her grief journey had brought her and made a “life giving decision to let her father’s death [...]

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Hugging Them in Your Heart

I recently came across a wonderful article that I would like to share with everyone who is grieving the death of someone close.  May this article help you on your journey of healing. Our missing can hurt so very much…sometimes every minute of every day. We hurt just to feel their touch and feel their [...]

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Death Denying? I don’t think so…

The National Allicance for Grieving Children blog tries to make a comparison on how society represents death in movies and other ways and how families tend to be reluctant to discuss death with their children.  Children are very resilient and need the adults in their life take the time to have honest, caring conversations with [...]

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The Transfer of Life

The National Alliance for Grieving Children blog explains how much the children teach us, the adults, how to handle grief.  They are wonderful role models for us who feel uncomfortable and inadequate in trying to “take care” of their grief.  The children are the only ones who find the way of how to walk their grief [...]

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Grief Comes in One Size

I found truth in this short poem, I would have to say that I spent many days trying to keep my grief tucked away in hopes that I wouldn’t have to feel the pain of loosing my husband in December 2006.  It wasn’t until I began to embrace my grief and allow it to become [...]

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November 2012: Healing Thoughts Newsletter

Through Agnesian HealthCare’s Bereavement Services, support is available during this grieving process to individuals and their families following the death of a loved one.  All services are offered at no charge and are available to any individual or group who has experienced the death of a family member or friend.  This newsletter is just one [...]

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Grieving allows you to heal

I came across this short poem the other day.   I felt I needed to share it with all of you, and feel free to share this with those that you know may be grieving as well.         Grieving Allows you to Heal   Grieving allows you to heal, to remember with [...]

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Grief – for crying out loud

Everyone has feelings. As an adult, I thought I had felt them all – joy, love, happiness, sadness, sorrow, etc. It wasn’t until I experienced the death of someone close to me that I began to understand the true meaning of all types of feelings. I wanted to hide my emptiness and sadness from everyone; [...]

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