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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
About Grief: Insights, Setbacks, Grace Notes, Taboos [Hardcover]
About Grief is a refreshingly down-to-earth book about an issue that blindsides many people. Written in a warm and conversational way that is, at times, deeply moving, at times, surprisingly amusing, and always practical, it covers a wide range of issues facing people in grief. Marasco and Shuff have done the footwork for readers who wish to know more about this complex subject. Using a variety of sources, including books, films, music and many hours spent talking with people in grief, the authors distill their candid insights into a series of short, single-topic-essays that can be easily digested in one sitting--a format they found grieving people preferred. This is not a book written by clinicians, so there's no cold jargon. It's not a memoir of one individual's grief, so it has something for everyone. And it's not a self-peddling inspirational book. It's a wise, plain-spoken, comforting book about an intimidating topic. As one reader recently said of About Grief: "Reading this book is like having a smart, entertaining friend around--at a time when you really need one."
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Funeral Wreaths
The Grieving Process
There is a famous quote that says: "You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose." I personally stand behind that adage. I have always believed that the most powerful motivator we possess is a positive attitude followed by appreciation.
Have you ever stopped to think about the fact that no two sunrises or sunsets are the same? Everyday that you awake, you have a new sunrise to gaze upon and every night that you wind down, you have a new sunset to embrace. Imagine what kind of wall art you would have if you took a picture everyday for a year at the sunrise and sunset of each passing day.
Death is something which many people avoid thinking about until such a time it is thrust upon them. A friend or relative dies and it suddenly becomes a subject which cannot be ignored, at least until you start to get over the loss.
We grow up with the conventional thinking that we will become adults and our parents will grow old and die before we do. Furthermore, our children will grow up to be adults and we will predecease them in old age.
Marriages, relationships and friendships are a lot like a baseball glove: The more you break it in, the harder it is to part with it. The fit is not only molded to you, but the more you use it, the softer it gets. Relationships are counterparts of the same.
It's much wiser to learn from other's mistakes than to go through a painful experience and learn from it. Some might disagree with it because they feel one can only learn by experiencing something and realizing the mistakes by suffering. No doubt that is an effective way of learning but isn't it more costly too? In fact, some mistakes are so costly that it requires a life time to pay for it but life is for once and is it worth wasting the entire life paying for some mistakes that we didn't think properly before committing? Well, not at all!
Many of us have experienced the bitter pain of losing someone we love and knowing that someone cares and is there for us helps to relieve some of the pain. Therefore, it is important that we do the same for those who are grieving and hurting. Here are some tips to help your loved ones through the grieving process.
We have all heard that everyone deals with grief in their own way, and that we must do it. This emotion is usually associated with a loss of someone we love, but it is more evasive than that. Grief is something we experience even when we perceive an upcoming loss of a marriage, job or money, for example. Many children grieve during and after a divorce and their behavior reflect the emotion. Grief can make us say and do things that are out of character for us. It can cause us to withdraw from loved ones or supporters and depression or fear feels like the norm. Worry is one of the feelings that lead to grief and if left unchecked and exaggerated can leave us feeling lost and alone.
Many people live their lives based on what past situations resulted in. This as we know tends to lead to unhappiness. It is impossible to fight against the past and win but what you can do is simply learn to let it be.
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