Showing posts with label grief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grief. Show all posts
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Sharing the Grief

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Since the summer started, I have lost some friends and family, and two stories caught my eye. The first was about recent reports highlight t...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Losing a loved one during a holiday

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If you are grieving over the loss of a loved one during a holiday, it can help if you know how to help others handle grief too. Losing a lov...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

BC Bereavement Day

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All of us experience loss and some of us don't know where to turn. In my province, there is help for those who suffered a loss.  Every y...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Sharing the Grief

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My daughter’s best friend and our adopted daughter just about lost her sister a few weeks ago. She, her brother and her parents were distrau...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

The Stages of Grief Model Acceptance

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross used the model of five stages of grief to explain the phases people experience when diagnosed with a terminal illness...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Stages of Grief: Depression

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This is the fourth of five posts focused on “The Stages of Grief”. In this one, we will be looking at depression, which can create a great ...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Stages of Grief Bargaining

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross understood that the five phases are not strictly encountered in a linear manner and that the person dealing with th...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Stages of Grief Anger

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified anger as the second phase of grief that people experience when they are diagnosed with a terminal illness...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Stages of Grief Denial

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In this Pandemic, a lot of people are facing the death of loved ones, loss of jobs or many other  life events that cause grieving . Over t...
Saturday, April 6, 2019

The loss of a spouse

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I have known Gary for over 40 years and his wife, with the support of her family, committed assisted suicide (which is legal in Canada). G...
Monday, January 2, 2017

Grieving is a personal and highly individual experience

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Death came to my home this year on December 24th and took one of our young friends from Australia who was visiting with us. He was part of...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Let the Band play on.

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A friend of mine died suddenly the other day with his family while on holiday in Texas. Bob and I first worked together back in the 70’s w...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Greiving is like an altered state

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Mourning is like an altered state of being and grief has to be endured. The following is from The Long Goodbye, The moment I heard my mothe...
Monday, November 1, 2010

On death and taxes

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In the last few months, a friend of mine lost his mother, another friend lost her husband and then her Uncle in a violent accident,  a frien...