Coping with grief

Off and on over my very long life I have heard of the stages of grief. I like psychology but have not delved too much into the theory and practicalities of it. I am not one of those Christians who push psychology aside as a trap of the world. I believe God designed us, like He did all things, to work in an orderly manner and part of that design is how our brains work in concert with our emotions. As with all things, we humans have spent much time trying to figure out the inner workings of the...Read Full Story

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler (66)Buy new: $10.20 89 used & new from $6.95(Visit the Most Gifted in Death & Grief list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)Review & DescriptionElisabeth Kübler-Ross's On Death and Dying changed the way we talk about the end of life. Before her own death in 2004, she and David Kessler completed On Grief and Grieving, which looks at the way we...Read Full Story

She was a character, my mom. I wasn't raised by her, my parents divorced when I was four or five. My father remarried when I was eight, so I had a mom; who raised me for 9 years - I just wanted “my” mom too.  When I was 17, I left home at the request of my parents, (we had a rough relationship and I was a handful) moved in with family 800 miles away, back to where it all began for me: Arkansas. I was born there, as were my parents; my family roots were there.  I felt more at home there...Read Full Story

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler (66)Buy new: $8.98 92 used & new from $5.01(Visit the Most Gifted in Death & Grief list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.)Review & DescriptionElisabeth Kübler-Ross's On Death and Dying changed the way we talk about the end of life. Before her own death in 2004, she and David Kessler completed On Grief and Grieving, which looks at the way we...Read Full Story

Providing a bereavement gift is usually a caring manner to show the deceased's loved ones just how much you really care. Although you might ship a floral arrangement, this is not ones only choice. The perfect bereavement and condolence gift ideas are generally those with the aspiration associated with providing comfort and memories to those individuals that are grieving. Sympathy gifts usually are very very important elements of overcoming and contending with the process of grief. Suggestions...Read Full Story

Parenting through divorce may experience far more challenging during psychological phases accompanied while using transition. The soreness of divorce moves through a approach that is instead a lot of like what happens to us when an person we enjoy dies. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross did extensive work with terminal people and studied how their feelings changed from your approach of preliminary discovery to eventual death. These phases are very useful in understanding how children grieve about the...Read Full Story

Realizing Grief and DeathGrief can be a natural response to loss. It can be a course of action that happens over time and entails an array of feelings, views, behaviors, and physical feelings. Although grief usually refers to the death of an loved one, people with cancer and their families also grieve other feasible cancer-related losses, such as the loss of a breast, the the loss of fertility, or the the loss of self-reliance.The terms grief, mourning, and bereavement are generally used...Read Full Story

This week we look at the songs that help you through the worst of times like nothing else. Join us for just the right amount of sonic therapy! Read more »Read Full Story

We learned last week of the death of a wonderful man, who played a very large part in the life of our youngest son, Matt.  While we lived in a very small mountain town in Southwest Virginia, I was very, very ill, and spent huge amounts of time in the hospital.  Ashley, of course, had the care of our sons during that time, in addition to a more than full-time job.  Also, during part of those months and years he was helping to keep watch over my mother.  She had moved in with us after the death...Read Full Story

The grieving process is necessary and healing.Death is inevitable. The loss of a beloved friend or family is a shattering experience.  It’s far reaching implications always bring a gamut of emotions which we cannot immunize ourselves against.  The heart-breaking anguish is inescapable when love is deep.   Deafening heartache may overcome us at unexpected moments – just when we feel that life has returned to normal.  Our life has been irrevocably altered. Grieving is painful.  It is also...Read Full Story