By Ramdass.org
I’ve had a lot of loss in my life. My husband has lung cancer, and I’m facing more loss in my future. I would like to know, “How can I use the grief that I feel to come to a deeper place of truth?”
Read on www.ramdass.org
CLEAR ALL
There may be a reason so many people refer to losing a piece of themselves...
Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.
1
When people are pushed into advocacy or social work as a result of a traumatic loss, part of the benefit for those affected is in keeping busy, but it’s also a way to memorialize their loved ones, explained Joanne Cacciatore, an associate research professor at Arizona State University who studies...
A new study explores the importance of care farming, using therapeutic spaces to treat individuals impacted by traumatic grief.
Joanne Cacciatore of Sedona started the nonprofit MISS Foundation in 1996 to provide counseling, advocacy, research and education services to families who have endured the death of a child.
Behind the statistics are mourners unable to find comfort by coming together.
There is a care farm in Arizona where rescue animals are helping people deal with traumatic grief.
Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.
"But now we’re asked — and sometimes forced — to carry grief as a solitary burden. And the psyche knows we are not capable of handling grief in isolation." - Francis Weller
3
The mismatch between the knowledge and the longing is perhaps the most anguishing of all human experiences.