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This conversation was so raw and tender—truly a wonderful display of human interaction.
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In the midst of the busiest years of our lives and careers, just as many of us are beginning to confront our own aging, we are likely to lose a parent--and as commonplace, even expected, as any such event may be, the repercussions can be dramatic.
In the months before my father died, I asked him a version of that question: How will I live without you?
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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Joan Borysenko talking about a mystical experience of forgiveness at the death of her mother.
The first―and definitive―guide to helping children really deal with loss from the authors of The Grief Recovery Handbook Following deaths, divorces, or the confusion of major relocation, many adults tell their children “don’t feel bad.
Losing a parent is among the most emotionally difficult and universal of human experiences. Most people will experience the loss of their mother or father in their lifetime.
You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through.
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Motherless Daughters with Hope Edelman, and host Lisa Machenberg, on Amazing Mind.
Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood.
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The death of a beloved is an amputation.
