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Grieving an Unfulfilled Dream
The reality of living overseas is that you are going to grieve multiple things, deeply. Anyone moving out of their passport country has a dream. Some want to help HIV patients o…
Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. –Elie Wiesel Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share ...
7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Grieving Muscles
Those of you who lift weights will be familiar with “lower body” and “upper body” days. The thinking is that by targeting the lower body one day, you can rest the upper body, allowing the muscles t...
Helping Children Deal With Grief
You can't protect your kids from the pain of loss of a loved one, but you can help build healthy coping skills which will serve them well in adulthood.
Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure
Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” and invented a new field within psychology to name the reality that every loss does not hold a promise of anything like resolution. Amid this pandemic,...
When Grief Gets Complicated
One may ask when grief is not complicated?! The essence of grief is that it is complicated. Grief impacts many aspects of life and your sense of stability; the core of who you are is displaced.&nbs...
When Grief is Stirred and Re-Stirred … and Re-Stirred …
Welcome to our second “Grief Week.” If you missed the first, you can read the posts here and here. COVID-19 has come with so much loss and change; Katie helps explain how your grief stirs up other ...
Frozen Grief: Why it Matters to Global Nomads
I was not aware of the concept of frozen grief until I stumbled across an article by Marilyn Gardner of Communicating Across Boundaries. All of a sudden pieces of the puzzle started falling into pl...
A Liturgy for Those with an Inconsolable Homesickness (read by Doug McKelvey)
You Tube reading of a prayer for those suffering inconsolable homesickness from Every Moment Holy (Rabbit Room Press) ©2017
By: Douglas Kaine McKelvey Length: 4:04
...7 Ways to Teach Your TCKs to Process Grief
By Lauren Wells The topic of TCKs and grief is one that circulates often on online forums about TCKS, and there is a good reason for this: we know that TCKs deal with a significant amount of loss. ...
Holiday Grief: An Unwelcome Guest Deserving of Radical Hospitality
Grief is an emotional, mental, and spiritual wound — and this is precisely because it is a relational wound.