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Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart”
Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart” Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart” Suicide: 19 Poems to “Beat Still My Heart” reflects a decade of finding my way back (Losing a Child to Suicide: A Sad Welcome) after losing my son to suicide. Reflecting the deep sorrow, grief, and confusion left behind…
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A Poem About Losing My Child: Sorrow Buried in Love
A Poem About Losing My Child: Sorrow Buried in Love Sorrow Buried in Love So swish to sway to sweet lullaby, Baby will fall in dark of the night. Rocking cradle to grave turning truth upside down: Parents die first leaving children behind. In a world topsy-turvy that cannot make sense, Sacred trust shines the…
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Holiday Grief Series: “Helping Yourself Heal During the Holiday Season”
“Helping Yourself Heal During the Holiday Season” By Alan Wolfelt The suggestions below offer practical tips for coping with grief during the holidays. Alan D. Wolfelt, the author of these suggestions, writes prolifically about all aspects of grief. He offers practical suggestions for handling grief (including for teens and kids), and he addresses grief in…
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Living in the Glare of My Son’s Suicide
Living in the Glare Listen to Your Narrative It isn’t wrong, this narrative of yours. Isn’t something to be fixed. Adjusted. Changed. Rewritten. God knows you’d rewrite your narrative if you could. Consider the whole thing a tumultuous, torrid first draft. A rough sketch ill-constructed. The consequence lacking intention. Not giving words, shapes, ideas, even…
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Surviving Grief at the Holidays (Part of the Holiday Grief Series)
Surviving Grief at the Holidays Tending to a Broken Heart People say, “I can’t imagine.“ But then they do. They think that missing a dead child is like missing your kid at college or on the mission field but harder and longer. That’s not it at all. It isn’t nostalgia for a time when things…
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