“As a person in grief I have been told that I need to “resolve” my grief. I was so relieved to read about your concept that we don’t really resolve our grief, but we can “reconcile” it. Can you describe the difference in this terminology?” As your question suggests, “reconcile” is the term I find […]
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A Grief Observed From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, the power and pain of Black mourning. BY MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH June 22, 2017 Mamie Till-Mobley wrote her memoir, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America, in 2003, the same year she died of heart failure, and 47 years after the lynching of her son,
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[Editor’s Note: I was going to write the perfect post for Valentine’s day when my colleague Lisa alerted me to this post from the remarkable website WhatsYourGrief.com entitled “Dear Love: Healing through Writing Letters.” It could not be said any better. Thank you Eleanor for giving us permission to reprint it here.] Dear Love: Healing Through
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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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Losing a loved one is never easy, and there’s no timeline for grief. While being able to move forward is important, you’ll still remember that person every day. The people we love and lose can live in our hearts forever, but we can also ensure their legacy remains for generations to come, providing not only
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