Overcoming & Moving Beyond Your Sorrow
Are you currently dealing with the death of a parent, a spouse, a sibling, a close friend, or another loved one? The pain that comes along with the loss of a loved one can be too much to take for some people. It can take weeks, months, and, in … [Continue reading]
Answers to 6 common questions about Hospice Care Paying for hospice care shouldn’t be a financial burden. And, in most cases, it doesn’t have to be. Hospice care is covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurances, making it affordable for … [Continue reading]
Fathers’ grief after a miscarriage is often overlooked. A trio of doctoral counseling students in the William & Mary School of Education set out to rectify that, and published the results of their interviews with fathers in a 2018 issue of The … [Continue reading]
Luke Perry’s daughter is getting support from someone who knows exactly what she is going through. Earlier this month, Sophie Perry , 18, lashed out on Instagram at people who criticized the way she was mourning the death of her father . "So to those … [Continue reading]
by Denise Crompton, author of "Diagnosis: Rare Disease" The care of a loved one with a debilitating condition often falls to their mother, but fathers, siblings or spouses also may take on that role. Even if there is additional help available, the … [Continue reading]
Dealing with Death of a Spouse at a Young Age THERE WERE ONLY three weeks from cancer diagnosis to death. When you’re 30, you never think something like this will happen to you. This isn’t how it’s meant to be. We had so many plans – things we … [Continue reading]
So grief is like this: There is a box with a ball in it and a pain button. In the beginning, the ball is huge. You can't move the box without the ball hitting the pain button. It rattles around on its own in there and hits the button over and … [Continue reading]
9 Tips For Dealing with Divorce Without a doubt, getting divorced can trigger grief and does for most people. It’s 100% normal to feel a lot of pain about the end of your marriage and all the other losses to go along with getting divorced. Yet … [Continue reading]
Parenting coach and columnist Meghan Leahy answered questions recently in a Washington Post online chat. Here is an edited excerpt. Q: My husband, son and I moved in with my parents when my mom was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer to help with everyday … [Continue reading]
Meghan and the late politician were extremely close, she says, sharing that they spoke up to seven times a day and still has the impulse to reach for her phone and call him. “I wake up groggy sometimes and have this impulse to call him, which I … [Continue reading]
"I lost my son in the World Trade Center [on Sept. 11] and I found your book so comforting." - Patricia Noah, mother of Leonard M. Castrianno, Cantor Fitzgerald, 105th floor WTC.
"I just read The Road to Recovery. It was so informative. I am founder and director of a bereavement support group for parents who have lost a child." - Ann Carruci, HANDS (Healing and Nurturing Distraught Survivors)
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Register by Sept. 9, 2019 Children who have experienced grief over the death of a person in their life can attend a camp to help them cope. Our Hospice of South Central Indiana is offering Camp Eva, a half-day bereavement camp for children ages 5-12, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 14. Any child who […]
Lorimar Cintron was 11 years old when her daddy died in a Boston hospital after being gravely wounded during an attack in Baghdad, where he served his country as an Army specialist. Losing him is never far from her heart or mind, yet she has learned to stand on her own young feet and to […]
Eight months after John died, Neustadter started sending emails to his old Yahoo address, because “communicating with John was truly the only thing I wanted to do at that time,” she said. It gave her a way to keep the conversation alive. “And it felt symbolic and ritualistic to send an actual letter out somewhere […]
