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 | A Series of Firsts
Monday, November 17, 2008 | I wrote a long time friend a letter today. The holiday seasons are approaching and her husband died earlier this year. It is far too soon after his death for her to know about grief and the holidays. She is already feeling a great deal . . . Read More
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| | Peeling an Onion Part 4: Reconstruction
Monday, September 29, 2008 | I call the last layer of the onion, reconstruction. I once called it recovery, but grief is not some disease we recover from. Grief never goes away completely. A chunk has been bitten our of our hearts and it will not grow back. We turn the corner in the way we cope, but the loss . . . Read More
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| | Peeling An Onion Part 3: A Time to React
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 | Grief is like peeling and onion, it comes off one layer at a time and you cry a lot. That is my favorite analogy of grief. I have talked about the first two layers in previous blogs . . . Read More
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| | Waiting for a Rainbow
Monday, June 16, 2008 | It seems to me that we hit bottom in our grief and then find something within ourselves to start us clawing our way back to toward the surface. I think the driving force for this turn varies with every individual... Read More
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| | Peeling An Onion Part 2: When the Whirling Stops
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 | The first part of grief is a whirling cloud of emotions, pain, fears, and utter disbelief that leaves us feeling like we are in the eye of a hurricane waiting for the winds we know are coming and hoping we can survive. Unfortunately, the times does come when the whirling stops and reality lands to take over our entire being... Read More
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| | Peeling an Onion Part 1: The Whirl
Thursday, May 01, 2008 | "I feel like I am in the eye of a hurricane, no movement, but everything and everybody is whirling around me in my quiet empty space." I have no words to explain the first part of the grieving process any better than that... Read More
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| | Continuing The Journey
Monday, April 07, 2008 | In an earlier blog titled The Journey Of Grief I described grief as a journey from having your loved one right in front of your face, to their presence being more in the heart and in memories...
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