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COVID Caregivers and Grief Overload: Coping with Too Much Loss AfterTalk 3.30.22

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by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. For many caregivers, COVID-19 has been a nonstop wrecking ball. It has swung back and forth across the globe, decimating families and communities. And who’s there in the midst of the ongoing crisis, providing care to the hundreds of thousands of sick, dying, dead, and grieving people? The professional caregivers. […]

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Coronavirus and the Six Needs of Mourning: AfterTalk Weekly 3.23.22

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by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Alongside the physical pandemic, the novel coronavirus is causing a pandemic of grief. That’s what we’re all feeling right now—grief. It’s important to recognize that. Grief is everything we think and feel inside of us whenever our attachments are threatened, harmed, or severed. We experience shock and disbelief. We are

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How to Get Proper Nutrition While Grieving AfterTalk Weekly 3.16.22

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By Beau Peters Everyone handles grief differently. It’s a process, and there’s no perfect timeline for getting through it. While most people understand the stages of grief, that doesn’t mean everyone’s pace or symptoms are the same. When you’re mourning the loss of someone or something, it’s hard to focus on anything else – including your

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Martin Luther King: AfterTalk Weekly 2.16.22

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What Martin Luther King’s Daughter Has to Say About Grief by Lynda Cheldelin Fell She was just 5-years-old when her famous daddy, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Thanks in part to the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the young Bernice King on her mother’s lap, most are familiar with that story. Yet a recent New York Times  article about

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Moving forwards ( and being okay with that)

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Editor’s Note: Louise has written several pieces over the years describing her journey through grief. You can find all the earlier ones at this link: https://blog.aftertalk.com/?s=Louise+McOrmond-Plummer by Louise McOrmond- Plummer ( AKA Mrs Kenneth D. Plummer) When my beloved husband Ken, died in 2016, the thought of planning a future that wouldn’t include Ken knocked

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MANAGING TRAUMATIC GRIEF AND COPING AFTER NATIONAL CRISES: AfterTalk Weekly

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Editor’s note: this post was authored by Bradley University’s Online Counseling Department. It is not only content rich, but the many links are amazingly useful and reliable.  When a traumatic event occurs, the first emotions we tend to experience are shock and horror. Reality itself may seem to be suspended temporarily, but once we realize

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Music can help us process feelings of loss AfterTalk Weekly 12.15.21

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Editor’s note: as we may stumble into another lockdown due to Omicron variant, we thought this Katlyn Eriksen piece would be especially useful. The one thing we would add is that you can couple listening an/or singing with dancing, another form of release helpful to the grieving.  Music can help us process feelings of loss

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