Well, because we love creative expression as a tool for coping with grief. Writing, of course, is one of those creative tools. We also know from many years of working with grievers and hanging out here with all of you that not everyone fancies him/herself a writer and that writing can...
(2021, Routledge). He serves as an advisor on the Hospice Foundation of America's Autism & Grief Project. In his spare time, he loves movies and TV shows as well as traveling to Comic Con and Anime conventions with his older sister. Alex also loves creative writing and spending time ...
Aiming to discover whether collaborative creative nonfiction writing can broaden the representation of experiences of grief and address some of the ethical challenges of writing about vulnerable others, we draw on the scholarship on memoir writing and collaboration and analyse our own process and ...
These examples and categories are not exhaustive, nor are they mutually exclusive. An individual's grief may be disenfranchised for a number of these reasons. And, of course, this particular taxonomy is attuned chiefly to contemporary Western culture. Charles Corr offered another way to categorize...
Don’t know where to start? Use a grief journaling prompt. Here are a few examples. Grief journaling prompts if you were here, I’d tell you… today I came across… and it reminded me of… when I’m sad, I can call… how did your lost loved one make you feel ...
The topics may be applicable to both free writing and focused writing. Some examples of the two writing forms are illustrated in Table 3. Writing guidelines and keywords have been developed to make the writing process easy and to stimulate an open, exploratory, and direct form of writing (...
If you are a deep feeler who has always been sensitive, you might be an empath and/or HSP. Consequently, you feel pain (and joy) to a greater degree than others. If this is the case, it’s important that you learn about your needs, in whatever way possible. For example, do you ...
There are countless other examples and these are just a few. If you have had something that you have gone back to time and again, questioning your action or inaction, please share in the comments. And consider how the acute stress response, your own appraisal of the situation, and counterfa...
Grief.com. (n.d.). The Five Stages of Grief. Retrieved fromhttps://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/ American Cancer Society. (n.d.). Search for Resources. Retrieved fromhttps://www.cancer.org/treatment/support-programs-and-services/resource-search.html ...
Some people might call “good grief” an oxymoron. Anoxymoronis a combination of two words that seem to mean the opposite of each other. Here are some examples I found online: seriously funny, pretty ugly, old news, and Microsoft Works. Some say “intelligentblonde” (a person with pale ...