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Participate in a Research Study
If you have experienced the death of a loved one in the past ten years and are over eighteen years old, we invite you to participate in a brief online study of the ways that individuals make sense of and find meaning in loss. All participants will be entered in a raffle to win one of two $50 gift certificates to Amazon.com.
Your participation will contribute to a better understanding of grief and loss. The researchers, Dr. Brian Vandenberg, and Rachel Hibberd, are most grateful for your time and help in completing the study. If you have any questions, please e-mail rhibberd@umsl.edu. The study has been approved by the Institutional Review board of the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Click here to participate:
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Book Corner
Seasons of Solace: A Story of Healing through Photos and Poems [Hardcover]
In shock after her husband was killed by a drunk driver while living in Thailand, Janelle Shantz Hertzler began searching for a way through the pain. Her struggle to make sense of her loss and find peace resulted in this moving collection. Told through heartfelt poetry and inspiring photography, Seasons of Solace expresses the spiritual journey of a grieving woman moving toward acceptance.
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Funeral Wreaths
You didn't plan it. You never imagined it could, or would happen to you in your lifetime. But, here you are, dear widow, blank as a slate, sitting at a kitchen table, studying the knob on the bread drawer. Your husband is dead, and in addition to feeling like a Pitiful Pearl Doll, all sad and blue, you find yourself needing to get out the house.
This article explores the impact of troubled childhoods on adult functioning. The author offers solution-focused strategies to assist adults in overcoming the perils of their past.
But, thinking you want to jump off a bridge, crash land into a moving train, or eat a bottle of pills, well, stop that! Because, that is not okay. Suicide is not an option, dear widow, and if the thought persists, than I'm here to tell you, if nobody else will, that there is something you can and must do about it.
Job's plight could be summarised as taking him to the place of analysis paralysis. So deeply does Job enquire of his painful situation he's brought to the point of madness; but that's all part of an incredibly important undoing process - only afterwards is he to see the value of it, as he goes full-circle. We liken this to grief.
There are times in life when we need to respect the importance of taking time to heal, recover and come to terms with what has happened to us. Here are some of those times when we may need to heal.
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