If you’ve done any grief work you’ve heard of the five stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, leading to acceptance. This stage model is based on the work of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross in her book On Death and Dying. She proposed a theoretical framework to describe the process one goes through when they are facing […]
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I believe that people usually have good intentions. And, when someone you care about is dealing with loss, you may not know how to respond. Most of us don’t have a very comfortable relationship with strong emotions and grief. When feelings like anger, sadness, fear, are expressed in our midst, we will tend to gloss
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Grief is deep sorrow. It is deeply emotional. Other words that come to mind are sadness, pain, loss, anguish, suffering, heartache, and despair. Grief also is universal, which means everyone everywhere experiences it. Most of us are not given the skills to deal with grief when it shows up in our lives. In fact, we
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“Every tear you weep in sorrow is caught by God’s hand and dried by the wings of an angel. Hang in there; you are never alone in sadness.”—Robert Clancy We will all lose someone dear to us. How will you deal with this loss, the overwhelming grief it brings to your life and those around
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Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping. ~Julia Cameron I want to say something about the shape of grief. Grief is not linear. It’s not a rectangle, either. It doesn\’t behave itself and stay within a neat box of “stages.” You don\’t go “through” it like passing through another country
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The Wellness Universe Quote of the Day by Monica Jones Move through your grief. Monica Jones contributes to our quote of the day with an expanded thought to help you heal. Living through the loss of her child, she uses her suffering as an amazing gift to help. Grief. The name that we put to
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The loss of a loved one in any form can be one of the hardest things we go through in life – but we\’re never alone as we walk that path. In this special episode of Inspiring Change, we talk with Monica Jones, creator of From Loss To Love. She shares powerful and healing insights
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“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies
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