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Day of the Dead and Mexican-American Funeral Service Rituals

By Larry Lynn | October 30, 2024 | 0 Comments

Editor’s Note:  Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is a traditional Mexican holiday celebrated November 2. On this day, it is believed that the souls of the dead return to visit their living family members. Many people celebrate this day by visiting the graves of deceased loved ones and setting up altars […]

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How to Cope on the Hardest Days of Grief

By Amanda Winstead | October 23, 2024 | 0 Comments

Grief can often feel like an enormous weight, especially on the toughest days. It’s important to remember that experiencing deep sorrow is a natural part of healing. While emotions may feel overwhelming, there are ways to cope that can help you navigate through those challenging moments. Expressing Your Feelings One of the most essential aspects […]

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How to cope with guilt and regrets and feel better over time

By Linda Donovan | October 16, 2024 | 0 Comments

by Linda Donovan How to cope with guilt and regrets and feel better over time: Feeling guilty and having regrets can happen before and after a loss. This is where the if-only and what-if statements are common. You may try unsuccessfully and illogically to bargain with a higher power, by saying out loud, “What if […]

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Four Things to Know About Emotional Wellness and Suicide Prevention

By Larry Lynn | October 9, 2024 | 0 Comments

Four Things to Know About Emotional Wellness and Suicide Prevention by Melissa Howard  Editor’s note: this piece is written by the founder of Stop Suicide (www.stopsuicide.info). Studies have shown that bereavement is associated with impaired mental health, increases in adverse health behaviors, and heightened risk of suicidal ideation, attempts, and death by suicide. For example, parental […]

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FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE: An AfterTalk Inspirational Quote for High Holy Days

By Larry Lynn | October 2, 2024 | 0 Comments

FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE is a famous sermon given by Rabbi Kenneth Berger on Yom Kippur day in the fall of 1986. It was inspired by the crash of the Challenger space shuttle on January 28, 1986 and the subsequent revelation that the crew had likely survived the explosion and lived for another five minutes […]

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Navigating Grief: How to Help a Teen Cope with a Peer’s Death by Suicide

By Larry Lynn | September 25, 2024 | 0 Comments

  by Beau Peters Losing a loved one is never easy and we all deal with grief in our own ways. However, teens can have an even harder time navigating their emotions during grief because teen years are already tumultuous and fraught with change that can cause stress and anxiety. The specifics surrounding the event […]

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How Grief Changes Relationships

By Amanda Winstead | September 18, 2024 | 0 Comments

Grief changes everything. It changes how you sleep and eat; it changes how you work and how you spend your free time. Grief changes how you think. So, it makes sense that grief changes how you relate to other people. So many people want to be supportive of those who are in mourning, but so […]

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We Grieve, We Remember, We Support Each Other: Thoughts from a 9/11 Widow and Grief Advocate

By Alan Wolfelt | September 11, 2024 | 0 Comments

By Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. We as a nation will never be “done” mourning the loss of 2,977 lives lost during the attack on September 11, 2001. On that Tuesday morning at the World Trade Center in New York, more than 2,700 people died, among them over two thousand people working at the Twin Towers, […]

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You’re Not Crazy – You’re Grieving Pt. 6

By Alan Wolfelt | September 4, 2024 | 0 Comments

Part 6: Living and Grieving Together by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.  In the early days after the death of someone you love dearly, it’s normal for this step to seem like a ridiculous impossibility. You feel so raw and torn apart, you can’t imagine surviving, let alone returning to any semblance of “normal life.” But […]

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You’re Not Crazy – You’re Grieving Pt. 5

By Alan Wolfelt | August 28, 2024 | 0 Comments

  Part 5: Embracing Your Spirituality Helps You Survive by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. In early grief, existential questions tend to naturally arise. Why did the person have to die? Why now? Why in this way? Why does anyone live and die? Why are we here? I often say “why” questions naturally precede “how” questions. […]

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