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Healing Beyond Loss: It's Never Too Late
by Alexandra Kennedy. We so often get in the way of grief; we try to suppress, truncate, postpone, or ignore it. We are afraid of being overwhelmed, of becoming nonfunctional: "If I start crying, I'll...
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Acceptance of Death: Developing a Lasting Sense of Peace
by Margaret Coberly. One important and obvious realization that can come to light when thinking about death is that death is inevitable. Through the process of further reflection, a greater awareness...
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Learning to live with the death of a person or persons I love is teaching me more about myself and about living. I am more complex than I realized, and yet I'm honest about my weaknesses. I am in the...
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Facing Death: How Children React to the Death of a Parent
Parents are often at a loss at how to explain the death of a loved one to a child. Some of the common explanations may create more harm than not...
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Discussing End-of-Life Choices & Afterlife Philosophy
There’s something to giving the end-of-life process its due, as opposed to our historical attitude of pretending to ignore death or treating it as though it were a distant taboo — at least, when it...
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Yes, I Talk to My Dead Sister: Communicating with Loved Ones on "The Other Side"
For me, ever since my sister's death in 1987, not only have I grown closer to her, I've also come to see that every decision, risk, adventure, accomplishment, deed, job, presentation, award,...
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When Illness or Injury Can’t Be Fixed — and Dying Is Okay
Sometimes there are circumstances that we aren’t meant to change or heal. Sometimes it is time for a soul to move on in its journey. Life is like that. We have, throughout our lives, windows of...
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When A Companion Dies... Grieving, Mourning, Healing
While time is required, the mere passage of hours is not enough to resolve a grief. It is also important to make time our ally, working with it rather than against it as it carries us toward new...
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Awful Gifts: Blessings in Disguise
Sometimes we wonder how we are going to survive the seemingly awful circumstances that appear in our lives. We may even wonder if we want to survive the nightmare at all. As much as my husband's...
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To Everything There Is a Season
Part of my job is to conduct the memorial whenever a death occurs. Although each service is tailored to the circumstances, I begin many of them with the same reading: “To everything there is a...
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Reaching the End with No Regrets
True value is not on what you own, but on who you are. Dying people know this. Their belongings are of no consequence whatsoever at the end. What other people think of them, or what they have achieved...
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Leaving the Body: Death is only a Transition
One afternoon I received a somewhat desperate call... My friend called to see if there was anything that I could do to assist her dad. She felt as if her dad was going to die. She knew from our...
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Our Hearts Remember So There Is No Need For Clutter
I’ve worked with many people whose beloved family members have died and left them with inheritance clutter. This can be anything the relative once owned. I call it clutter because my clients often...
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Life & Death, Birth & Rebirth: The Continuum of Life
Mortality nudges into our awareness at different points in our lives. Sometimes it strikes like a fist, and at other times it brushes alongside with the merest touch. It tapped me on the shoulder...
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The Preciousness of Life: Lessons from My Husband’s Near Death Experience
Several years ago my beloved husband of 40 years came very close to death. Yes, we are very grateful that he survived. Also I am very grateful for the inner changes that have occurred in me as a...
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From Cancer and Near-Death -- to Healthy and Fully Alive
During my near-death experience, it felt to me that all judgment, hatred, jealousy, and fear stem from people not realizing their true greatness. This goes against the natural flow of life-force...
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The Yoda of Grief: If You Feel It, It Will Heal You
The best information I've ever heard on the topic of grieving and what happens when we don't do it comes from a retired cop turned public speaker and therapist for police officers, Bobby Smith, PhD....
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A Voice from the Ashes: Billy Reaches Out From the Afterlife
Now that the weather had started to warm, I began thinking I should do something with Billy's remains. His ashes had been sitting in a rosewood box by my fireplace for almost three months. When Billy...
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Being Present at the Moment of Death of a Loved One
When I do presentations, I ask if anyone has been present at the moment of someone’s death; those who have, I ask what they experienced. Nobody felt they could put into words their emotions. Many...
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There Is No End to Your Life: There Is No Death
We need no external demonstration to prove to us that those that have gone before are still alive; we now know that no soul can possibly cease to exist, and we spiritually discern the immortal...
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