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Posted: 1/12/2008 8:45:52 PM | | Hi, I just can't imagine losing a child...I do however feel your pain we lost my Mom last year and it will be 1 year on the 19th of Jan. We went to counseling through the Church and the woman was wonderful that we went to...I can pray for you as we all should do for one another as one woman to another. I hope and pray that whatever you do you will get through this and when you love unconditionally as I know you loved your daughter you will get through all God has in store for you..Bless YOU!! | |
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Posted: 1/12/2008 9:04:32 PM | | I have no words...I just wish I could give you a big hug... | |
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Posted: 1/12/2008 9:38:29 PM | Hello Orcaanna:
Your heartache resonates with me. I suggest you read Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking", a very keen journal of her state of mind the year following her husband's passing.
It's been some time since my wife passed, and the endless greiving has been quite draining, not to mention the typical isolation that occurs when one is greiving.
There's a Grief Recovery workshop that just started at the Center for Spiritual Living. csldallas.org The workshop is being facilitated by Dr. Theodora (Tedi) Koehn, Phd, whose specialty is grief recovery. Go to the CSL website for particulars. Tedi is accepting new enrollees for the first three weeks, it meet Thurday evenings at 7:P.M.
I'm getting a good feeling from the group, it feels safe, and though I've been really down and cynical, I have high hopes for significant recovery in this group. I've done other greif groups, they were useful, but there is definitely a synergetic powerful feeling of hopefullness being created that sets this one apart.
There is a fee of $150 for the workshop, plus $13. for the companion book, "Grief Recovery". After what I've been through, that seems a small price to pay for real professional guidance by a lady who got her Phd. in Grief Counselling to work through her own debilitating grief.
Hope this helps, Namaste, Van | |
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Posted: 1/12/2008 9:47:29 PM | OOOoops, sorry, just noticed your not in the Dallas area. Forget the workshop, but maybe you can find something up your way.
Namaste', Van | |
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Posted: 1/13/2008 11:15:11 AM | I have heard and read that its important to have pleasent thoughts of the person...as thoughts travel to the person ...when John Lennon died at the funeral his best friend and teacher , yoga and far easter musical instrument...I shall call him John`s "garu" dastintly said at the wake,..to all John`s friends , He said make siure all your thoughts be pleasent ones, as they will travel to John !!!....and if you greive with lots of pain, it`ll only upset and John ....
So try to think of the better times or the times that she enjoyed the most ...try to be up-beat and let her know she is loved for all wonderful times you had together...
Hope this was helpful...... | |
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