Category: Grief
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A Life-Changing Phone Call to Harper Lee
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On a dare I once phoned Harper Lee in Monroeville, Alabama. This call changed my life – bringing new-found courage and self-acceptance. I learned about perseverance and resilience, too.
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Limiting Factors and Defining Characteristics: What Are Yours?
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Letting our early experiences and traumas define us can contribute to a replay of hurts from the past. Let’s look at how our Defining Characteristics and Limiting Factor affect our potential for living life.
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Memorial Day and the VA scandal: Dishonoring Our Service Men and Women
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The VA scandal has turned this Memorial Day from a day of honor into a time of dishonoring our service men and women.
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The Not Knowing is Excruciating – The Malaysia Airlines Mystery
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The mystery of the missing Malaysian Airlines 777 brings up memories of the agonizing wait for news connected to a plane crash many years ago. It’s the not knowing that is so excruciating.
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Coping with the Boston Marathon Bombing
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When we are paralyzed by fear in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings and a small voice whispers – “What’s going to happen to me?” Here’s how to cope with the resulting traumatic stress.
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Mourning a Mentor – Remembering Susan Jeffers
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Susan Jeffers death has hit me pretty hard. If it had not been for her wisdom and mentoring, my first book may never have been published. Susan taught me to “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway!”
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There Is to Be No Grieving
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When my mother and grandmother died in a DC-3 crash I was 12 years old. The rule in my family was “There is to be no grieving.” Incomplete or unresolved or complicated grieving has powerful long-term effects throughout our lives. As with others who have experienced significant childhood challenges, I’m repeatedly reminded that healing is…