“Don’t worry, I’m going to get it back. I just loaned it to her to do her dressmaking. It was the perfect size for her body,” he argued, justifying his unpopular decision, painting me as selfish for wanting to keep the mannequin with the buttons in the exact spots where my mot...
Today, with so many of us living on this increasingly crowded planet and vying for its resources, it can be easy to forget about the whole. What I mean is the “whole tribe” of our fellow beings. Fear has run rampant as we separate into our own groups against those “others” we pe...
Thirty years after losing her mother, Edwards found herself sitting under those same stars, providing support to grieving kids at Camp MAGIK. “It felt like such a full circle moment for me,” she said. Having seen how grief impacted her own family, Edwards is an advocate for kids receiving...
“After I wake up from these events, I thank him for hanging out with me and hope that we can hang out again soon. I don’t always remember the messages he tells me, and sometimes it could be months later when I understand what he was telling me. For example, right before Covid-1...
She thought it was best to be honest and appreciated the offers of support she’d received from friends and adults she knows. I told her that what we were doing, lying there talking for an hour together about this, was the most important thing we could be doing today. I told her ...
t yell at me or don’t be mean to me and blah blah blah I would think people would just get it because I would anyway I’m ranting seems to help me lately I hope you have a good support system Paul I relayed to you were totally in my thoughts I hope for the both of us the ...
I thought support groups would help the numbness but I didn’t like the way I was trying to make everyone else in my group feel better. I still think he will walk through the door. Being alone is weird, I’m more disciplined but also feel I did a lot before was he was sick so ...
which quite literally meant sitting with death. My first experience of this was in seeing a patient for an initial consultation who had resisted having any therapy for quite some time and finally decided that the time had come for him to do some work with me. He was relatively young, reaso...
Also, the eligibility criteria limit the generalizability of our findings to other groups such as teenagers from single-parent households, newly arrived immigrants or children outside the age range of this study. Implications To be able to adjust to life after loss, both teenagers and their parent...