Grief can hit us in powerful and unanticipated ways. You might expect to grieve a person, a pet or even a former version of yourself – but many people are surprised by the depth of sad yearning they can feel after selling the childhood home. In fact, it is normal to grieve a place. And this grief can be especially profound if it coincides with a parent dying or moving into residential aged care, leading to the sale of their house. Why do I grieve my childhood home so much now we’ve sold it? And what can I do about it? « The Conversation
When we fool ourselves into thinking that a living funeral is a substitute for a funeral after the death, we may well be tricking ourselves into thinking we can go around our grief instead of through our grief. We’re not really initiating our mourning. Instead, we may be trying to stop it before it begins. So we are well served to remind ourselves and teach others that a gathering before the death is not a substitute for a meaningful funeral. While living funerals may be helpful prior to the death, as a stand-alone service it just might be unfinished. “Living Funerals” They Just Might Be Out of Order « AfterTalk
I'm writing to thank you for sharing with me a copy of your book, Finding Your Way Through Grief: A Guide for the First Year. You may not believe this, but I read the entire book on the plane coming home Sunday. I found so many situations that I have seen in real life doing "Survivor Support" counseling, that I couldn't put the book down. I think it would be a most appropriate reading for 90% of my clients. In Grief: Offering Survivor Support to Insurance Beneficiaries « Grief Healing
Now I was checking a box labeled single. Along with losing my husband, I lost the larger deduction available when married filing jointly. This elicited yet another flutter of my heart—one of many Widow Club reminders that I am no longer a we but an I. There is an abundance of unforeseen moments reminding us widows of our uncoupling. Portland resident finds grief, resilience with return to 'single filer' status « Portland Tribune
“Feeling sorry for yourself” may be a way of acknowledging you have sadness for what you had before the death of your wife. There is an acknowledgement that her path would no longer be full of the difficulties that had led to her death. She no longer was experiencing a life that had quality. Your sadness at no longer having your partner, having to rebuild a life without her; your joy for her to not have to experience a life that no longer serves her — these are all normal parts of the grieving process. The difference between grief and feeling sorry for yourself « Taos News
I think the lessons I learned about loss are invaluable and undeniably relevant in everyone’s life — and not just when someone close passes away. The course emphasizes the importance of grief literacy, a term used to describe understanding grief and how to deal with it — both your grief and the grief of others. In my opinion, an education about grief literacy is equally as important as other student health and care policies Western University is already keen on promoting. Opinion: Why grief literacy should be a priority at Western « Western Gazette
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