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An Invisibile Means of Support

By Dale Baker
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Support Groups

Relates a personal experience emphasizing the importance of a support group to a long-term family caregiver, especially for men who do not want to share their feelings or ask for help.

Holiday Hope and Miracles

By Elissa Al-Chokhachy
  • Grief and Bereavement

The holidays are often a difficult time for those of us that have experienced a loss of a loved one. It can be a joyous time of year or it can leave you feeling sad and lonely. May this holiday message of hope and miracles help all of us at this time.

Surviving Widowhood: My First Year

By Sally A. Connolly
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Wellness

A widow recommends ways to speed recovery and improve emotional health after the loss of a loved one. By using talents and interests, the bereaved can cope with the present and begin to move toward healing and a meaningful future.

Caregiving – The Ultimate Love

By Jeri Lynn Platt
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Legislation and Advocacy
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Respite Coalitions & Services
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Support Groups
  • Volunteer Service Programs
  • Wellness

Being the caregiver of someone who is terminally ill is one of the most difficult and painful jobs one will likely ever experience. It is also one of the most rewarding and privileged gifts one can ever give or receive. It is the Ultimate Love.

Gifts, Garlands, and Grief

By Sandy Goodman
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement

Sandy Goodman has lost her 18 year old son in 1997. While Holidays can be disabling for those who grieve. She’d like to share some things that might help others.

Why we must face the inevitable

By Ed Wirkman
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Wellness

The author describes how, after experiencing both methods, it is has become very clear to him that sharing the inevitability of death is far, far better than ignoring it.

How to Turn Grief into Joy

By RobinRenee Bridges
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

How you can cope with grief through self-induced contact in the afterlife. Prove to yourself that there’s an afterlife. Then examine more proof through scripture, human evolution, and quantum physics.

Designing A Life – We Each Get The Chance

By Dr. Barbara Holstein
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Wellness

Life is all about living and then telling and retelling the stories of our lives to get the most positive juice from our stories.

Care Givers and Grief in the 21st Century

By Mark Mercer
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Support Groups

Avenues for channeling grief by using technology to provide closure and continuity

“When Helping Hurts: Sustaining Trauma Workers.”

By Frank Ochberg, M.D.
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Death and Dying
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Volunteer Service Programs

This article is about vicarious PTSD It is for trauma workers, caregivers, volunteers and others who may be vulnerable to compassion fatigue.

Grief And The Holidays

By Dave Turo-Shields
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Grief and Bereavement

A Survival Guide To Grief And The Holidays

Stages

By Mary C. Fridley RN, BC
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

The author describes the four stages people go through when an unfavorahble diagnosis is made.

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