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Unrecognized Life Losses: Good Grief!
Grief is such a small word for a major component in one’s life. Throughout life, we go through losses resulting in grief. It is how one learns to cope and grieve losses that enable one […]
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Coping with Grief Over the Holidays
Hope And The Holidays… Coping With Grief
Courtesy Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care, Colorado Springs SENIOR Magazine
The holidays can be an especially difficult time for those who have experienced the death of a loved one. As others anticipate festivities with family and friends, feelings of loss are often magnified as we become acutely aware of the void in our lives.
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Surviving the loss of a loved one
By Nancy L. Jackson “After 30-plus years together, I was staring at a huge black hole the day after Robbie passed away and then the phone rang and Jolene Senek, Bereavement Coordinator for Home Hospice, […]
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A path towards healing: learning to find hope after the death of a family member
A PATH TOWARDS HEALING
Learning to find hope after the death of a family member
Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine
In the U.S. today, there is a natural, assumed order to the deaths we will experience in our lives. We believe that our grandparents will die first, then our parents, then our brothers and sisters, and then our children. […]
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Am I paranoid, or are people avoiding me – Jenkins-Soffe, LIVING WELL Magazine
“Am I Paranoid, or Are People Avoiding Me?”
By Russell P. Friedman & John W. James, Jenkins-Soffe, Salt Lake City LIVING WELL Magazine
Even though grievers seem to be walking through quicksand, they usually have a heightened awareness of what is going on around them. […]
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The Buddy System, Allen Family Funeral Options, LIVING WELL Magazine
The Buddy System
Rick Allen, Allen Family Funeral Options
How many of us remember as little children being
told “hold my hand while we cross the street” or “don’t go out there all
alone?” These words of advice will stay with us our entire lifetime.
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Allen Family Funeral, Options on Grieving and Healing
By: Rick Allen, Allen Family Funeral Options, for SENIOR Magazine (Collin edition)
In our culture today there are those who would argue that viewing the body of a person who has died has little to no positive impact on family and friends. Others contend that viewing the body can have an altogether negative impact because it makes a difficult situation even harder. […]