by griefcenterweb | Dec 27, 2021 | Articles, Communal Grief, Death of a Parent, Death of a Partner, Death of a Sibling, Grieving Adults, Grieving Children, Resources, Self Care
To witness is to protect and preserve experience from being denied out of existence. As mourners we go through phases of protest, not the least of which is the fight to not have our grief taken away from us. Back in September, 2020 when the total number estimated...
by griefcenterweb | Dec 23, 2021 | Articles, Grieving Adults, Grieving Children, Resources, Self Care
Bereavement thrusts us into a world of multiple swirling self states; feelings, thoughts, sensations that are unpredictable in their depth and range. In and through this bewildering painful process, we struggle to find a way to relinquish certain aspects of our...
by griefcenterweb | Jan 26, 2021 | Communal Grief, Grieving Adults, Notes from the Center, Self Care
At long last we have a national leader in charge, who is capable of acknowledging our collective grief and the need to mourn our losses. Apart from how his administration goes on to govern, Biden’s self-declared first responsibility of leadership suggests that now...
by griefcenterweb | Jan 18, 2021 | Communal Grief, Grieving Adults, Self Care
As Covid-19 and our country’s political crisis continue to rage on, it becomes increasingly difficult to cope with and manage our fears and anxieties. We are enduring so many losses. In fact, there’s a kind of hazy, threatening cloud of grief hanging over...
by griefcenterweb | Dec 8, 2020 | Communal Grief, Self Care
Never in our collection living memory have we been forced to persevere through the social, economic, and psychological consequences of a pandemic. And it is hard to articulate a set of emotions that seem to defy articulation. But language used well can help. The words...
by griefcenterweb | Aug 19, 2020 | Articles, Communal Grief, Grieving Adults, Resources, Self Care, Uncategorized
Among other challenges, the coronavirus calls us to reorganize our consciousness about death and dying. Perhaps the sudden plunge into mortality forced upon us by the pandemic can inspire new ways of being helpful and useful to each other, even while we grieve and...
