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What is an Appropriate Sympathy Gift?
When a friend or loved one is grieving, it is hard to know what to say or how to show your support. When you want to provide comfort and support and show your concern for a family member, a friend, or an associate, a personalized gift is always an ideal choice. The best gifts are those given and chosen from the heart. It says that you really care and have taken the time to think about the time after the initial grief of losing a loved one ... during the alone and lonely times.

Trial by Fire - 9 Tips for Grieving Couples
You will often hear that grief and loss bring couples together, but it can actually tear them apart. It is possible to emerge on the other side of grief with a closer marriage, but it does take work.

Just What Do We Mean by ABUSE Anyway?
For most people, the word abuse implies violent and malicious behavior. In fact, most mistreatment does NOT fall into that category. Sadly, maltreatment is far too common and many of us have been affected more deeply than we care to admit.

Guilty, Your Honor: The Burden of Guilt After a Suicide
Guilty, Your Honor, I whisper.

Adapting to the Loss of a Loved One: Three Tips on how to Cope
Have you ever sat down and played a piano where one of the keys wasn't working? Or made cookies and left out an ingredient? Perhaps you've started listening to a favorite CD, and just when it gets to your favorite part of your favorite song, you realize that there is a scratch in it. In some ways, loosing a loved one is similar. Here you are going easily through life, and then, BAM, they are gone and life will never be the same.

After Suicide: Returning to Life, Thanks to an Owl
Have you ever lost the ability to laugh? I did. When Arlyn died, I knew I would never laugh again. How could I really laugh, when I felt so empty? How could I let lose and laugh out loud, when I hurt so much?

Signs After Suicide: The Red Butterfly
Do you believe that those we love can send us signs from the spirit world to let us know they are okay? Is it possible?

You Have to Show Up: On Small Miracles (Okay, maybe not so small)
I hadn't intended to go to my cousin's funeral.

Is Death Really the End or the Window to A New Beginning?
Do we really die? Does life really end? Perhaps there is an alternative explanation as to why we leave this earth and why we showed up here in the first place.

How to Deal with Suicide and Euthenasia
This in reality is a continuation of the pamphlet on "How to Deal with Suffering", but this deals with two specifics under Suffering. How do you deal with Suicide and Euthenasia, which cause a great deal of Suffering in a person's life.

How to Deal with Suffering
This pamphlet is being written so people can know the experiences of others in how they have coped with any individualized sufferings that they have experienced throughout their lives, especially sufferings that were perhaps not man-caused. This pamphlet also tries to answer the question as to why an all-loving God could permit these sufferings. But I will begin with questions for reflection on this topic...

Euthanasia: How Will I Know When its Time?
Making the decision to use euthanasia to assist your pet's transition can be painful and confusing. Grief counselor Marcia Breitenbach gives tips for navigating this difficult journey.

Watching Death
About being able to see death as it nears, be it children or whomever wants to... Rosa

Graceful Grief: Angelic Help is on the Way!
Change and loss don't have to be such a struggle. Grief, loss and change are sacred journeys and it is our choice to choose resistance or grace. The graceful road has much assistance from the spiritual realm.

Pet Loss: Significant and Profound Loss or Much Ado about Nothing?
Pet loss is trivialized and those who grieve suffer more as a result. Guidelines for dealing with this type of grief are given as well as suggestions for using the loss to give more purpose and meaning to life.

How My Four Your Old Son Reacted To The Death Of His Great Nanny Biscuits
My nan was called Margaret and lived until the age of eighty eight. Unfortunately she died in hospital and this article describes how my son reacted to the news of her death. His reaction basically put a smile back onto my face again.

Why Does God Allow Suffering?
If God is so good, why doesn't He put an end to pain and suffering?

Silent Tears - from a Norwegian Hospital
My daughter was admitted to the childrens ward when 14 days old with pneumonia. It was a horrible time, but even so a bonding experience for my wife and I. Never surrender. If things are horrible, they will get better. And crying is good - even for us men...

What this Rabbi Learned from Not being Re-hired
Loss is our teacher; we learn tremendous lessons about ourselves by how we respond to the losses in our lives. Rabbis are no different, and this is my story.

Dying On the Inside: A Childs Grief
The impatient tooting of a car horn startled us into awareness. No one had thought beyond making it through the grievous night. Now the sun was up, and it took a moment to realize that this was just like any other school day — for everyone else. Distasteful tasks always fall to the youngest child, so I was pushed, unceremoniously, out the door.

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