2006
After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.
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This is an amazing, candid, heartfelt Q&A with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore on Healing Traumatic Grief.
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Traumatic loss counselor and founder of the MISS Foundation, Dr. Joanne Cacciatore joins us to discuss traumatic grief, and more specifically the experience of losing a child.
Joshua and Ryan discuss particularly difficult topics, including trauma, bereavement, traumatic stress, sorrow, and even traumatic death with author, professor, and psychotherapist Dr. Joanne Cacciatore.
How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
When psychotherapist Jeanne Safer lost her mother, she was determined to turn her loss into an opportunity for insight and growth. Through her own experience, her work with patients, and in-depth interviews, Safer shows that the death of a parent can be a catalyst for change.
This is what it looks like when you grieve the death of an estranged parent. It’s this surreal thing, where everyone expects you to feel something—yet you don’t. For me, it didn’t feel like I lost a parent, or a loved one, or even a close friend. It felt like I’d lost what could have been.
Sorrow, relief and guilt are just a few emotions that may come up when your estranged parent dies.
Filled with secrets from a therapist’s toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times.
After four decades of training volunteers to sit at the bedsides of the dying, psychologist and Shanti founder Charles Garfield has created an essential guide for friends, family, and healthcare professionals who want to ease someone’s final days but don’t know where to begin.