WALKING ALONGSIDE GRIEF
If I don’t manage to spread any other message through my sharing than this one, then I will feel that I have accomplished my goal. It i...
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NAVIGATING ANTICIPATORY LOSS: A JOURNEY OF LOVE, HOPE, AND ACCEPTANCE
Anticipatory loss is defined as grief that is felt in anticipation of someone’s death. He kept telling me that he was getting weaker, b...
FIGHTING THE BATTLE: IN THE BARGAINING STAGE OF ANTICIPATORY GRIEF
After the four surgeries over Thanksgiving, his body was very weak from the surgeries and the eight days in the hospital with limited m...
WELCOME TO PROFOUNDLY CHANGED!
If you’re here, I can honestly say that I’m sorry for your loss.
Grief is not a club that any of us want to join, yet it is both a ble...
JOURNALING TOWARD HEALING
It has taken some weeks, but I am now ready to share with you that my amazing husband, Bob Rose, went to be with Jesus on October 20, 2...
DEVELOPING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is one of the primary responsibilities ...
WARNING: LIFE IS NOT A CONTEST!
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing,
is giving up on being perfect and beginning the
work of becoming yourself.
- Anna...
IT JUST TAKES ONE!
Research supports that children will thrive if they have just one positive role model. Kids are not necessarily trouble makers. It’s ju...
DISPELLING THE MYTHS
Our culture is permeated with parenthood myths such as the one of being able to escape the adolescent stage of development mentioned in...
SCHOOL COUNSELORS HELPING TO BRIDGE THE GAP FOR PARENTS
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-o...