Many people feel at a loss for how to help children who are experiencing grief – especially if we are also trying to deal with our own grief. Any adult in a child’s life has an impact and the opportunity to help a child handle grief – teachers, childcare providers, neighbors, and other family members [...]
Archive for November, 2008
4 Ways to Help Children with Grief
Posted in Children and Grief, Grief, Helping Others Grieve, tagged Children and Grief, Grief, helping kids grieve, Helping Others Grieve on November 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
How Great Does the Loss Have to Be?
Posted in Grief, Healing, Helping Others Grieve, tagged comparing grief, Grief, society and grief on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How often have you thought, said or heard someone else say something like
“I lost __________, but so and so lost <insert something ‘worse’> or
“I lost __________, but I still have __________.”
The implied message in both statements is that you shouldn’t feel so bad because someone else experienced a “bigger” loss or because you didn’t lose [...]
Break down to Heal
Posted in Grief, Healing, tagged break down, fall apart, Grief, Healing on November 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Sometimes the most healing thing a person can do is fall apart. Break down. Sob and cry and shake. Get messy. Crawl in to bed and curl up in the fetal position. Sob so hard your body shutters, your eyes get red and swollen, and snot runs out your nose. Wail. Scream. Beat the crap [...]
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