by griefcenterweb | Dec 17, 2022 | Grieving Adults, Grieving and the Holidays, Self Care
The holiday season can feel more like a storm to weather than a cheerful time brimming with love and light. In fact for some, it’s the first holiday season since a death and natural but painful upsurges of grief occur. For others, it may feel less acute in anguish,...
by griefcenterweb | Dec 13, 2022 | Communal Grief, Grieving Adults, Self Care
by David Fireman, LCSW This article is the first in a series on the subject of coping with precariousness and uncertainty. The Covid-19 pandemic and socio-political conditions are significant factors, which I attempt to take into account as part of the analysis. It...
by griefcenterweb | Dec 5, 2022 | Articles, Grieving Adults, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Resources, Self Care
PesiUK published Paul M Martin’s article, “Helping Clients Design Personal Grief Rituals” in December 2022. You can read it online at https://www.pesi.co.uk/blog/2022/december/helping-clients-design-personal-grief-rituals When working with bereaved...
by griefcenterweb | Oct 24, 2022 | Articles, Communal Grief, Death of a Parent, Death of a Partner, Death of a Sibling, Grief in the Workplace, Grieving Adults, Grieving After a Miscarriage or Still Birth, Grieving and the Holidays, Grieving Children, Helpful Books, Notes from the Center, Resources, Self Care, Suicide and Overdose, When Someone Dies by Suicide
Personal Grief Rituals presents a new model for how bereaved individuals can create unique expressions of mourning that are tailored to their psychological needs and grounded in memories and emotions specific to the relationship they lost. This book examines cultures...
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...
