Category: Loss
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I Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded . . .
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I used to play with Daddy’s gun when I was a child. Now I cringe whenever i hear about a child shooting or killing another child or their parent or themselves. Freaks me out to realizeI could have been that child. Another unintended shooting – on the set of ‘Rust’ when the cinematographer and director…
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What Do I Need to Feel Safe and to Be Safe?
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What does it take to feel safe and be safe when wildfires and high winds threaten. Reconsidering what safety actually means.
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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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The Many Faces of Survivor Guilt
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Waylon Jennings and I shared the same haunting guilty thought for many years. Here are some of the various ways #survivor guilt shows itself – not just after tragedies but in the daily lives of some families.
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Young Prince Harry and Me – 12 years old and losing our mothers in a crash
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Since the day Princess Diana was killed in a car crash I’ve felt a kindred-spirited-ness with Prince Harry. I, too, was 12 years old when my mother was killed decades earlier in a plane crash. And like Prince Harry, I wasn’t able to talk about it for many years.
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Robin Williams: Creativity and Madness-A Fine Line
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Robin William’s life shows us the fine line between Creativity and Madness. And his suicide gives us the gift of taking depression into the light.
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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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Saving Face or Losing Face?
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What Congress in Washington needs is a large dose of ‘Saving Face.’ Maybe they can use some tips from the Chinese who for generations have been experts on ‘Managing Face.’