Recent Posts Tagged With 'grief'

• 2009 Womens Conference Takes on the Topic of Grief

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 18:53 in grief, grief and loss, grieving families, grief in the news, grieving family, womens conference, grief in nicu

  My mother’s death has brought me to my knees. I had feared it my entire life. I was terrified that when it happened I wouldn’t be able to go on. In fact, I was sure of it. A life without my mother was and is unimaginable to me. Maria Shri...

• Grief Used as an Excuse for Poor Behavior with Kanye West

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 15:07 in grief, coping with grief, grieving families, grief in the news, grieving family, grief response, announcing on twitter, exploiting grief

  Most of the times I don’t weight in on the latest celebrity antics, but with people wondering on Twitter today if “Kanye West’s poor behavior at the MTV Video Music Awards was due to his grief over his mom’s death last year...

• Motherland the Film Documents Six Mothers Coping with Loss

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 01:54 in grief, Announcements, coping with grief, grief and loss, coping with death, loss of child, coping with loss, loss of a child, grieving family, grief and loss resources, jennifer steinman, grief in africa

  Motherland the Film is a journey of hope and healing. This new film by Jennifer Steinman documents the volunteer mission six women take to Africa, a continent in mourning. As noted on Gigantic Digital by Mark Lipsky: Ms. Steinman invites the audience...

• Pocket Cemetery - Using New Techology to Cope with Death

  Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 12:44 in grief, michael jackson, farrah fawcett, coping with death, celebrity death, grieving family, twitter condolences, pocket cemetery, igrief, twitter sympathy

  The recent series of celebrity deaths lead to GSC Products making a pre-release version of a new iPhone application, one that it hoped will help people cope with the death of a loved one, or of a celebrity by memorializing them with an iPhone applica...

• Farrah Fawcett - Ryan O’Neal with Another Love Story Movie

  Posted on Thursday May 14th, 2009 at 09:39 in grief, farrah fawcett, living with cancer, grief in the news, end of life care, ryan oneal, grieving family, farrahs story, another love story

  A very moving interview with Ryan O’Neal for the Today Show with Meredith Vieira. In this interview O’Neal talks about Farrah Fawcett’s fight against cancer and what appear to be her final days, in a real life story now reminiscent ...

• Oklahoma City and Columbine Anniversaries - Coping with Tragedy

  Posted on Tuesday April 21st, 2009 at 19:09 in grief, oklahoma city bombing, grief in the news, coping with tragedy, grieving family, sudden loss, trauma resources, columbine tragedy, surviving traumatic loss

  How does one coping with a tragic, traumatic loss? This has been one of the questions I have been wrestling with both personally and professionally in the past month. The 14th year anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing (April 19, 1995) and the 10t...

• Taking a Risk to Bloom in the Spring

  Posted on Tuesday April 7th, 2009 at 12:35 in grief, coping with loss, dr. dyer, living with loss, learning to live again, grief and loss resources, healthy profits: the 5 elements of strategic wellness, healthy profits: the book, risk after loss

  I was asked to write an article for the Healthy Profits Newsletter the incorporated Spring. Since the chapter that I contributed to the Healthy Profits: The 5 Elements Of Strategic Wellness book was on “Loss and the Workplace: What to Do at Work Wh...

• Welcoming Home a Fallen Soldier - Staff Sgt. Phillip A. Myers Returns Home

  Posted on Monday April 6th, 2009 at 21:54 in grief, Fallen Soldiers, grief in the news, military coffins, dover air force base, american war dead, military caskets, grief video, grieving family systems, military grief, ban military caskets, flag-draped caskets

  Media was allowed to cover the arrival of an airman killed in Afghanistan for the first time since the Obama administration reversed an 18-year-old ban on news coverage of returning fallen soldiers. The widow of Staff Sargent Phillip A. Meyers gave p...

• Grief in the NICU - A Teleconference Presentation

  Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 08:25 in grief, coping with grief, coping with loss, nicu parents, grief in the news, dr. dyer, aftercare, grieving family, grief and loss resources, grief in nicu, perinatal care

  I had the honor of being invited to speak at the “Managing the Spectrum of Maternal Mental Health Issues from Conception through the Neonatal Experience” at the Perinatal Center Conference Hosted by Jacobi Medical Centers. NICU profession...

• Natasha Richardson’s Lasting Legacy as an Organ Donor

  Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 20:11 in grief, organ donation, natasha richardson, gift of life, grieving families, grief in the news, unexpected death, unexpected accident, grieving family, sudden tragic loss, sudden loss, natasha richardson death

  When I posted a couple of days ago, waiting to hear the news about Natasha Richardson, I was hopeful that the family might be able to see the pain of their own grief to consider giving the gift of life. In doing so, the Neesom-Richardson Family could...

• Skiing Accident Leads to the Unexpected Death of Natasha Richardson

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 23:09 in grief, natasha richardson, grieving families, grief in the news, skiing accident, unexpected death, unexpected accident, grieving family, sudden tragic loss, sudden loss, natasha richardson death, talk and die syndrome

  This afternoon, soon after posting the first blog entry, news came about Natasha Richardson along with a statement by the family. Unfortunately it was not good. The LA Times published a story at 6:03 PM PDT “Natasha Richardson, actress, is dead...

• Sudden Unexpected Loss - Natasha Richardson Hospitalized in Critical Condition after a Skiing Accident

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 16:41 in grief, natasha richardson, grief in the news, skiing accident, unexpected accident, grieving family, sudden tragic loss, sudden loss, talk and die syndrome, trauma resources

  While everyone waits for an official statement from her family, thoughts are with the family of Natasha Richardson, who went from skiing, talking and joking around to being in the hospital, quite possibly in critical condition in a matter of a few ho...

• Prince William to Remember on Mother’s Day the Loss of a Mother

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 11:49 in grief, Prince William, Princess Diana, grief and loss, grief in the news, grieving family, child bereavement charity, grief and loss resources, enduring loss

  Anyone who watched the funeral of the Princess of Wales or Princess Diana remembers watching two very young Princes walking behind their mother’s funeral cortege and the very brave face they put on for the world. This week Prince William spoke ...

• Hand in Hand - Supporting Each other After a Loss

  Posted on Wednesday March 11th, 2009 at 12:41 in grief, grief in the news, hand in hand ballet, living with loss, grief video, amputee ballet, chinese amputee ballet, surviving a loss

  This ballet reminds me of the quote by Luciano de Crescenzo: We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other. This inspiring dance illustrates the importance of supporting each other after a loss, she dances w...

• No Surprise - New Study Shows Hospice Patients Feel Abandoned by Physicians

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 18:02 in grief, archives of internal medicine, grief in the news, end of life care, hospice care, hospice patients, patients feel abandoned

  A new study published this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine is confirming what many people already knew that patients and family members sometimes feel abandoned by their physicians at the transition to end-of-life care. The results of this...

• Bunny - An Unexpected Educational Resource to Teach about Death and Dying

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 15:15 in grief, blue sky studios, grieving family, grief and loss resources, grief video, grieving family systems, bunny short film, death and dying resource

  I would not have believed that the computer animation studio that produced “Ice Age” would have created a short film that works as an effective resource for educating children and adults about death and dying, but this short film is a val...