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Your First Thanksgiving Without Your Loved One

Thanksgiving Grief: How To Manage the First Holiday Without Your Loved One


Thanksgiving can stir both love and grief, especially when someone you miss is not at the table. This piece offers gentle insight and comforting ideas for navigating the first holiday without your loved one. You can honor your grief while still holding a space for connection.

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Thanksgiving Grief: How To Manage the First Holiday Without Your Loved One
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How Mindfulness Makes You (and Me) a Better Therapist


Yoga cracked open 23 years of unattended grief and led me to the bedrock of my work: mindfulness. In this piece I share how a daily practice steadies me in tough sessions, reduces burnout, and helps clients, using a framework that blends structure with spaciousness.

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How Mindfulness Makes You (and Me) a Better Therapist

#36: Love, Loss, & Survival: How I Healed After Losing My Husband With Marla Polk


After 27 years of marriage, Marla Polk found herself dealing with the sudden death of her husband. Losing her spouse created a hole in her life that she didn’t know what to do with. She shares her journey and what helped in episode #36 of the Mindfulness & Grief Podcast.

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#36: Love, Loss, & Survival: How I Healed After Losing My Husband With Marla Polk

Warriors of Life: Conquering Grief and Battling Your Way Back To Happiness


MINDFULNESS & GRIEF PODCAST EPISODE 24Warriors of Life Conquering Grief & Battling Your Way Back To Happinesswith Richie Pryor SHOW NOTES Richie Pryor’s son and namesake, Richard, sadly died in

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Warriors of Life: Conquering Grief and Battling Your Way Back To Happiness

The Past can Teach Us to be Of Service to Ourselves After Loss


Dave Roberts discusses how looking back on your life can determine if what you’ve accomplished has meaning, for you and for others who have crossed your path.

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The Past can Teach Us to be Of Service to Ourselves After Loss

‘Til Death Do Us NOT Part (Part 1)


In this touching letter to her deceased husband, Jen CB lovingly comes to the realization that death does not part them and that the vows they made live on.

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‘Til Death Do Us NOT Part (Part 1)

How to make a positive impression on a grieving family


The world’s an uncertain place, making things equally pleasant and disturbing for us human beings. Bronte Price talks about the fragility of life and how you can help a grieving family cope with the loss of a loved one.

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How to make a positive impression on a grieving family

Turning Attention to Love


Things pass, transform, change – and we must learn how to live with our eyes wide open for what is here right now. Laurie talks about turning your attention to the love that shines through the sadness.

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Turning Attention to Love

Life is Short — Embrace It! Grief When Both Parents Die


Losing one parent as a child is devastating. Losing both is unimaginable, yet there is always hope for a new beginning …

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Life is Short — Embrace It! Grief When Both Parents Die
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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.

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