How to get through, and help your grieving kids get through the holiday seasons. Tips about retaining old customs or changing to new ones and other ideas to help.
A Hole In Your Life
I urge you then, to get busy soon and create your personal repair plan. What is the hole in your life? What is missing that you want to find? What do you want to get back? What is really needed to fill that hole?
Who Is Your Starfish?: Making a Difference
This piece is dedicated to the late Caren Peet, LMSW, who loved and collected starfish, and items depicting starfish, and who made a true difference in the lives of a …
Whose Rights Matter More in Adoption?
Are you one of those people who think of adoption as a really happy, wonderful event? You are not wrong, but you’re also not exactly right either. It is a …
Anything In Your Cupboard?
It’s snowing AGAIN here in Connecticut, and bitter cold. How’s the weather where you are? Did you get a chance to get to the market to stock up on …
I AM SHAMELESSLY BEGGING YOU TO READ THIS POST ABOUT LIFE
Yes, Readers, I will sometimes resort to begging. Now that you’re here, please stay for at least a few moments. Today I am not going to tell you anything …
A Look at Leave-Takings
Leave-takings are hard. They are harder for some than for others. If you are someone who has had a lot of loss in your life, you may actually dread …
Finders, Keepers, Losers, Weepers, Hoarders
Nowadays we hear fairly often about the phenomenon of “hoaders”. I don’t know if this has increased over the past decades, or it’s just that the media has focused …
Do You Have Survivor’s Guilt?–When A Loved One Dies
Do You Have Survivor’s Guilt? – When a Loved One Dies …
How to Trick Your Grief and Sadness Into Taking a Break
How to Trick Your Grief and Sadness Into Taking a Break By Iris Arenson-Fuller, PCC, CPC Sure you’re going through a rough patch right now. There may be some …
