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Author: Alexandra Kennedy

Alexandra Kennedy MA MFT is a psychotherapist in private practice in Soquel, California and author of Losing a Parent (HarperCollins 1991), and The Infinite Thread: Healing Relationships Beyond Loss (Beyond Words 2001).

She has led workshops and lectured at universities, hospices, churches and professional organizations on grieving the loss of a parent.

She is a faculty member at UC Extension Santa Cruz and has taught a graduate course on dying and grieving at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology for 7 years.

Her articles have appeared in Yoga Journal, Mothering Magazine, Magical Blend and the California Therapist.

She has been interviewed in USA Today, the San Jose Mercury, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Boston Herald as well as on NPR's "Talk of the Nation", CNN's "Sonja Live" and KQED's "Family Talk." Visit her website at: alexandrakennedy.com

How to Maximize Healing On the Anniversary of 9/11

By Alexandra Kennedy
  • Grief and Bereavement

The anniversary of any loss is an important time to reflect and review. Many people are surprised at the intensity of grief that surfaces in the weeks leading up to the anniversary of a loved one’s death or of a traumatic event such as 9-11.

Parents Losing Parents – Part I

By Alexandra Kennedy
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement

Our parents, in their death, offer us the gift of another birth. In receiving that gift, we come to embrace life fully–with all its mystery and humanness, conflict and resolution, joys and sorrows, separations and meetings

Parents Losing Parents Part ll

By Alexandra Kennedy
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement

Our parents, in their death, offer us the gift of another birth. In receiving that gift, we come to embrace life fully–with all its mystery and humanness, conflict and resolution, joys and sorrows, separations and meetings.

10 Steps To Grieving The Loss Of A Parent

By Alexandra Kennedy
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement

A parent’s death can shatter us, leaving lifetime scars, or it can shatter our limits sense of our selves, opening up our world into new dimensions.

Healing Daily Losses

By Alexandra Kennedy
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An examination on the many losses experienced in life through death, divorce, leaving home, etc and what they mean for the future.

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