Recent Posts Tagged With 'kindness'

• From the Gallows of Grief to Gratitude

  Posted on Monday June 23rd, 2008 at 20:33 in kindness, Compassion, death, gratitude, grief, healing, despair, loss, bereavement

  There is nothing so whole as a broken heart.Mendel of KotzkThis quote reminds me of what I've learned during my grief journey. I've learned that in brokenness, there can be wholeness. In the darkness, there can be light. In egoism, there can be self...

• Primum non nocere, prosum beneficum

  Posted on Friday May 23rd, 2008 at 08:35 in kindness, Compassion, death, grief, bereavement, caring, psychotherapeutic intervention, compassion presence

  When my daughter died in 1994, I heard nothing from the hospital staff after our discharge. Instead, I returned to my home where grief had taken residence, and I was left alone.  No social worker or nurse attended to my needs. No pastor or clergy of...