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4 Lifehacks To Overcome the Fear of Being Alone

Coping with the fear of being left alone after a tragic loss can be challenging but with a little help, you can conquer your fear.

4 Lifehacks To Overcome the Fear of Being Alone

Four Things Eckhart Tolle and Thich Nhat Hanh Taught Me About Grief

Learn how losing his unborn child led a first-time father into depression and then, to meditation and mindfulness.

Four Things Eckhart Tolle and Thich Nhat Hanh Taught Me About Grief

Grieving My Alcoholic Father: Reflections On My Mindful Journey Through Loss

When my father passed away, I was just 16 years old. And while this should have brought my world crashing down, you should know that this event was not as traumatic for me as it likely should have been, at least not right away…

Grieving My Alcoholic Father: Reflections On My Mindful Journey Through Loss

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The Healing Power of Karma After Loss

An Eye For an Eye? I have often told my students at Utica College that karma isn’t about an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth. If that was true, we’d all be blind and eating our meals through a straw. For someone like me, who tends to value sacred law as

The Healing Power of Karma After Loss

The Magic Meditation Formula

Last year, my husband Steve died. His death changed my life in an instant. We were childhood sweethearts. I was 13 when we met and he was 14. He made a commitment to love me forever and that’s exactly what happened until the day he died. We had 38 years of marriage and an exciting

The Magic Meditation Formula

Getting Through It: Writing About the Landslide of Grief

I write to think about questions that are preoccupying me. In my novel Landslide, I consider how resilience arises out of catastrophic loss. When I started the novel, my mother and three close friends had died. My husband had battled cancer. I had gone through unexplained, early menopause which also felt like sorrow and loss.

Getting Through It: Writing About the Landslide of Grief

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Living in the Space Between: Personal Reflection on Stillbirth Grief

Like any trauma survivor, I spent the first few days that I was home alternating between trying as hard as I could to sleep to shut the world out, and flashing back. Flashing back to the mess of a girl that I was . . . on the surgical recovery floor, not the maternity floor.

Living in the Space Between: Personal Reflection on Stillbirth Grief

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Losing Yourself in the Grief of a Sibling

Major Griffith, USMC, was killed in action on December 14, 2011 by an enemy Taliban sniper. Sam was a beloved Marine Corps Officer who embodied perseverance and grit. His death greatly impacted the lives of all that knew and loved him and changed the course of Renee’s life forever. When Sam died, I realized I

Losing Yourself in the Grief of a Sibling

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Acceptance: A Personal Quest After The Death Of My Wife

Almost everyone experiences bereavement and grief at some stage in their lives, yet no one experiences it in the same way. We are all different in the way we respond. In the midst of grief, it is difficult to accept intended words of comfort such as “I know how you feel.” Such words always sound

Acceptance: A Personal Quest After The Death Of My Wife

Guilt & Grief: Giving Yourself Mercy When You Feel You Are To Blame

Guilt and grief form a ubiquitous pair. We can find countless ways to blame ourselves. For that last argument we had. For not insisting they visit the doctor sooner. For sending them on that last errand. For not discovering the right healing supplement. For not being able to cure their addiction or ease the pain

Guilt & Grief: Giving Yourself Mercy When You Feel You Are To Blame

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