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I remember how you told me I should trust you for a year It would just be for a year But it’s eight years, Albert! Eight long years, Albert! – Charles Strouse Bye Bye Birdie   Peter, [...]

“It’s Déjà vu all over again.” – Yogi Berra   Involuntary memories occur during the grieving process when you are faced with grief triggers that unconsciously bring up recollections of the [...]

The “worried well” has a pejorative connotation. It is being used to describe a bunch of patients who are perceived by some as using health care inappropriately, when more deserving patients [...]

When my husband Peter died, I was surrounded by love and support from both family and friends. My friends encouraged me to move through my grief and cheered me on as I progressed through the [...]

The meaning of “enough” can be unique for everybody. For some it is the bare minimum and for others it can be a great deal. The literal meaning of the word enough is “occurring in such quantity, [...]

Covid cases are rising. We are so sick of the anxiety that is infecting our lives. We are into the third year of the pandemic and, with each newscast, we feel a little less safe. Omicron is a [...]

“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.” – Carl Sandburg Grieving is not wallowing. Wallowing is defined as: “an [...]

When I was a little girl, I took great pleasure in writing funny poetry.  I would compose hilarious stories with weird and wacky characters.  I adored writing and it gave me an outlet [...]

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Victor Frankl The [...]

I am fed up with grief myths – those false expectations and misjudgments that make your grief recovery even harder. I have compiled a list of the top fifteen grief myths that I am exposing.  [...]