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More Tips for Holiday Grief
During the holidays, the bereaved need a lot of support, encouragement and understanding. The holidays are a difficult time for those grieving. It doesn’t matter if they are newly bereaved or long time bereaved. The holidays are always a reminder that one person, and in some cases, more than one person are missing from the [...]
Tips for Holiday Grief
As everyone knows the holidays are quickly coming upon us. When you are grieving, what do you do? How do you cope with the holidays during this time? I would like to offer some suggestions that may help you cope with the holidays.
1. Your grief will be with you, so I would suggest that you [...]
Coping with Thanksgiving and other holidays
Grief tailspins may be caused by holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, special events, other deaths, or events that stimulate memories of the deceased. At these times, people may experience mini-grief cycles. This is normal.
Now is the time for the bereaved to often have painful anticipation of the holidays. For so [...]
Coping with the Holidays
The holidays are quickly approaching. If you have had a loved one die or be injured you will now be faced with how to cope with the holidays. At this time of the year it seems that everywhere one looks some happy family is celebrating and joyfully being together. Because you will have a family [...]
Victim Impact Panels
Information about speaking at a Victim Impact Panel. First of all the VIP’s are through MADD. You need to contact MADD to see if there are panels in your area. Our panel meets every other month. Some panels meet one time a month and some more often. Usually [...]
Serenity Prayer
What to say to the person grieving?
When someone you know is grieving do you know what to say to them? Do you worry about saying the wrong thing? Do you feel you will remind them of their loss and make them feel worse? It may feel uncomfortable to you when you don’t know what to say or do?
You will not be [...]
Working through Grief with a Journal
Have you ever given it a thought that keeping a journal would be helpful in your grieving? What do you do with all those emotions and feelings that keep going through your mind?
When you run out of people that are willing to listen to your grief story over and over, putting your pen to paper [...]
More Tips for Getting through the Holidays
Grief tailspins may be caused by holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, special events, other deaths, or events that stimulate memories of the deceased. At these times, people may experience mini-grief cycles. This is normal.
Now is the time for the bereaved to often have painful anticipation of the holidays. For so many people [...]
Tips to handle the Holidays you may now dread.
Holiday time becomes a time of despair, uncertainty, uncomfortableness, and sadness to those that have had someone close to them dies. Society seems consumed by holiday joy, but those who grieve the death of their child or loved one are only aware of the whole in their hearts and in their lives. Here [...]
