Category: grieving
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Honoring Grief and Making Losses Real
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The losses and fears of pandemic have been bringing up all kinds of losses from long ago –– of security, of health, of identity, of job, of respect, of recognition, of loved ones or pets. And each old trauma contributes to the anxiety of the present.
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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…