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by Louis LaGrand, Ph.D. - 2007-06-15
Do you possess an inspiring symbol of hope or peace of mind? Do you use it as a cue to increase your self-awareness and alter the way you are feeling at any given moment? The great psychologist Carl J...
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by Louis LaGrand, Ph.D. - 2007-06-15
Is the anger over the way your loved one was treated by the medical community eating you up? Or, are you angry at those who should have helped you in the last days of your loved one's life, but were n...
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by Mark Ivar Myhre - 2007-06-15
When something happens in your life, it tends to bring up a certain amount of feeling. Someone cuts you off in traffic, and it brings up anger or perhaps fear. That anger and that fear have a certain ...
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by Charlotte M. Mathes, LCSW, Ph.D. - 2007-06-10
Because children grieve differently from adults, they may appear not to be mourning at all. One adult client confessed her long held guilt that as a child, the day her sister died, she went to a neigh...
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by Mohammad Samir Hossain - 2007-05-22
In the previous part of the hypothesis I concluded about six usual stages of adjustment with death for an individual. An average healthy adult can remain at any stage according to his personal view. F...
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by Louis LaGrand, Ph.D. - 2007-05-08
Meaning affects everything we do; and equally important it affects the body and its physiology as attested to by the many examples of body-mind relationships, such as the placebo effect. Finding meani...
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by Lou LaGrand - 2007-04-29
Much of our behavior in adult life is based on the examples we were exposed to as children. Many of these examples were backed up with admonitions, directions and information that were put forth as "t...
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by Lou LaGrand - 2007-04-28
Is it a bit unusual to have a conversation with a deceased loved one? Do many people do this? And are there any benefits to such action? What will my friends think if they find out? These questions ar...
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by Lou LaGrand - 2007-04-25
Does everything look hopeless? No future? No place to turn for the help you really need deep within? Is there anything that can make a difference in the way you feel? Despite the image and meaning you...
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by Judy Strong - 2007-04-25
I want to share with you some ideas about a very important aspect of grief and loss - rebuilding your life. Whether we want it to or not, this process begins immediately, following the death of a love...
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by Bob Cummings - 2007-04-25
A little girl put Smokey in a paper bag when he was about 5 weeks old and threw him in a dumpster behind a restaurant. The restaurant owner saw this and took him inside and fed him and gave him a war...
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by Lou LaGrand - 2007-04-24
With the increase in violence and the many tragic losses that occur nationally, there is an increased need to consider how to deal with the anniversaries of these events. This is especially true if yo...
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by Diane LeGallee - 2007-04-23
A Course In Miracles talks about suffering not being real. That suffering is in our mind. How can this be so? The heartbreak we feel when a loved one dies, is that not real? The pain one feels whe...
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by Berend Lange - 2007-04-22
Three years ago today, Friday the 23rd of April 2004 was a brilliantly beautiful autumn day in Cape Town - warm, sunny and calm. The perfection of the universe was showing off in a spectacular fashion...
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by Louis LaGrand, Ph.D. - 2007-04-21
Grief is an integral part of life and living. Everyone grieves, although not everyone mourns. That is, not everyone goes public with their grief. They have been taught to keep it to themselves because...
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by Louis LaGrand, Ph.D. - 2007-04-21
Everyone has to deal with the death of a loved at various times throughout life. It is one of the conditions that is commonly faced without training or education. The loss of a loved one is made espec...
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by Albert Foong - 2007-04-20
If you are in extreme emotional pain, please answer this: who is your worst enemy?Who is the one hurting you?Most of the time the only person hurting you is yourself.Before you react, please let me ex...
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by MJ Ferruzza - 2007-04-18
A good friend went through the sorrow and joy of celebrating her brother's birthday one year after his untimely death. She spent the day with her mother and close family members. Grieving is a straini...
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by Zoe Routh - 2007-04-18
There are babies everywhere in my life. Number of pregnant friends: 3. Number of friends who have given birth this year: 3. Number of babies born to friends to date: 14. Number of friends on baby-mak...
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by Lou LaGrand - 2007-04-18
Does the grief you are experiencing seem to be relentless? Is there no end in sight? That feeling is not unusual for many. A common experience for mourners is not to be able to find a nurturing suppor...