“Loss is never easy, but learning about the normal, necessary process of grief and mourning can help. Everyone grieves and mourns differently, but there are six steps that we all must encounter.” The ...
How do we mourn what we’ve lost? To the Ancient Greeks, the answer lay in elegy. Derived from the Greek word “elegos,” meaning a song of lament, elegy was a form of poetry to commemorate the loss of a ...
When a family grieves a loss, a barrage of different emotions, reactions, and coping mechanisms will emerge, likely at different paces. The process of grief may include shutting down, crying, sleeping ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jackie Naginey Hook (Jonathan Hsieh/Motion Lighthouse) Years ago when I was in spiritual director training, Jo Ann Kunz, was one ...
Grief has a way of silencing the world. It doesn’t knock politely or wait for an invitation. It arrives unannounced, raw and unrelenting, often when we least expect it. Grief demands everything we ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The death of 12-year-old Juan Acevedo has been devastating to his family, this community, and schoolmates at Larkspur Middle School. But among the challenges faced when a ...
LOWELL | "Understanding Grief," a seminar on the grief process sponsored by the Congregational Care Ministries of First United Methodist Church of Lowell, will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. March 29 at ...
When children lose a parent, a sibling, a friend or other treasured person in their lives, they tend to hold in or suppress their feelings so as not to inconvenience anyone — especially the adults ...