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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.
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Book Corner
How Sweet It Is [Paperback]
Deena Livingston leaves behind a broken romance and her chef job in Atlanta to spend time at her grandfather's cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. But her grandfather has an odd request: he wants Deena to teach cooking classes to the ragtag group of middle-schoolers who attend the local afterschool program, The Center. Reluctantly, Deena agrees, but how is she supposed to convince these kids that cooking at home is better than eating at McDonalds? And after all she went through in Atlanta, why is she attracted to Zack, the social worker at The Center? Can a Dr. Seuss-quoting plumber, a curly-haired basketball player, and a group of middle-schoolers change Deena's outlook on life?
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Funeral Wreaths
Blessings are little and big, short and long, wisps of grace and fragments of bliss. They engulf my life and remind me to be grateful for what I have. For me it is a blessing, to be here, to be surviving without my son - something I never ever thought I could do.
One of the times that sums up God to me is this: I am walking my 6 year old son up the road to school. He places his chubby little, puppy warm hand in mine and talks to me about Firemen and Lego emergency vehicles. He chuckles as he sees a friend up ahead and they swap stories about what cereal they had for breakfast and who's had toast as if it was the most fun you could have in the world. Directions to Heaven.
In the last article I looked at the five stages of grief. I stated that we feel grief at all sorts of times in our lives, not just when a loved one has died.
Dealing with the loss of a spouse is extremely difficult. Even if you know your spouse is terminally ill, it's really hard, probably impossible, to be completely prepared emotionally.
Get up. Get dressed. Get out. Yes! It's hard. Your husband, or significant other, someone you cared deeply about, has passed. You are alone. You want to waddle in your sadness, in your coulda, woulda, shouldas, in what was and is no more. People listened to your woe is me, they sympathized in the beginning, maybe the first month, maybe longer but... now it is time to realize you are your own "I am" and focus on yourself. No one else will.
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