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How to Help a Loved One with Financial Issues Following a Spouse’s Death

How to Help a Loved One with Financial Issues Following a Spouse's Death - Cheryl Conklin How to Help a Loved One with Financial Issues Following a Spouse's Death At We Grieve, we know the death of a spouse is never easy, as the event marks the loss of an intimate relationship. If you have a senior loved…

KarlMay 12, 2022

Loss of Partner Loss of Sibling Resources

Missing My Reflection

Loss reminds us of the power held by significant people in our lives. When our loved one dies, we are overcome with emotion. We feel the deep sadness of loneliness engulf us like an impenetrable fog, and we have trouble imagining a future without our person. For those people with considerable impact on our life, there is an even deeper…

KarlApril 19, 2021

General Grief & Loss Resources

Coping with Worry During Grief

Grief is not a simple emotion. It is an extremely complex mix of many different emotions, all of which seem to come at us at the same time. When someone very dear to us has died, we grapple simultaneously with intense feelings of sadness, nagging regrets and anger, fear and wonder about the meaning of life, and our own mortality,…

KarlMarch 15, 2021

Loss of Connection Resources

Connecting in a Disconnected World

What is connection? Connection is not simply a social media post, text, a ‘like’ on your page, or even receiving a letter or gift in the mail. A connection is how being in a relationship makes us feel.

KarlMarch 2, 2021

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Loss of Parent Resources

What You Might Not Expect

When we lose a parent, we expect to be sad and we expect we will miss our parent, but what catches us by surprise are the things we do not expect when we lose a parent.

KarlFebruary 28, 2021

Loss of Parent Resources

Healthy Healing

We live our entire lives knowing at some point we will lose our parents. In the natural order of things, children outlive their parents. We can live decades with this knowledge and still be devastated when loss occurs.

KarlFebruary 28, 2021

Loss of Sibling Resources

Acknowledging Your Loss

Many people find they come to despise the word “accept” when it comes to grief. It has connotations of being okay with the death, or quickly moving on from the person we lost.

KarlFebruary 28, 2021

Loss of Friend Loss of Sibling Resources

Stronger When You Lean

There is nothing wrong with being strong, but with grief that approach can leave you simply stuffing the pain deeper inside and securing a future of physical pain, poor health, anxiety, and resentment.

KarlFebruary 28, 2021

Loss by Suicide Resources

Complications with Suicide

The stigma of suicide in our culture today may likely keep you from feeling the freedom to reveal the cause of your loved one’s death, much less talk about how it happened.

KarlFebruary 28, 2021

Loss by Suicide Resources

A Suicide State of Mind

What were they thinking? This is unimaginable! I cannot even begin to understand what he could have been thinking when he chose to take his life. Why would he do this?

KarlFebruary 28, 2021