Adjusting After Our Person Has Died
It is a challenging part of life, both emotionally and physically, to figure out how to live productively when this person is no longer with us...
It is a challenging part of life, both emotionally and physically, to figure out how to live productively when this person is no longer with us...
It has been almost six months since my husband of 62 years died. As an end of life educator I have taught about loss and grief, and even wrote a booklet about it. BUT...
This is another aspect of grief I didn’t know until now that I am living it. Who am I if I am only one? What have I wanted to do...
I’ve noticed people are hesitant to talk about the person that died or use their name...
support people who are dyingBeing involved with end of life care is not something most people want to do, so what brings you?
Now I have to learn how to be a widow. How to create a new life, a new way of being. I am truly alone.
Death has touched us all, some more recently than others. Grief has no actual timeline, no end point where we are suddenly “fine”. Each of us responds to our loss...
Grief is like an open wound. When we healthcare workers experience a personal loss, every patient scrapes open our own wound of personal grief.
Funerals are for the living. They are to bring comfort. Recognizing the life lived by the person that died is comfort to the living...
We in health care, enter a family's life at a challenging, sad and fearful time. It is our acts of thoughtfulness that will be remembered and provide comfort.
We tend to play the “elephant in the room” game at the mention of our missing loved one. “If we don’t talk about how sad we are feeling we won’t...
This is where bereavement support groups come in. Support groups are for anyone experiencing a death. The groups are not for just those people having challenges in dealing with their...