Preparing for a Significant Family Holiday Without You…
by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC After a loved one dies, we can find ourselves feeling overwhelmed by the notion of preparing for a major holiday without them. There are...
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Reimagining Life After the Death of an Intimate Partner
by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC I cannot imagine anything more difficult than going through the rest of life alone. Finding love again after the death of an intimate...
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Mindfulness and Self-Care for Stressful Times
by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC Who needs this mindfulness stuff? It’s just a slang word for something I’m already doing in my life anyways, isn’t it? I used...
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Why do you keep talking to a dead person? Continuing Bonds…
by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC “My loved one died a year ago, and I still say goodnight to their photo.” “I find myself being a cemetery person, since my...
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Grieve the Ripple Effects and Losses of the Corona-virus
by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC Since March I have been working from home because of this disease. When it became time, I packed up the office, choosing those things...
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Exchange The Term Social Distancing: Grief Support at Bakken Young
by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC Exchange the term Social Distancing for Physical Distancing In this time of crisis, let us remember that we are not socially distancing, we...
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Bakken-Young Grief Support during Covid 19 Virus
by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC Following the guidance of the CDC and the Wisconsin Department of Health, we are eliminating in- person groups, whether it is the Coffees...
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Parents; Teaching Children about Mourning and Grief?
by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC Parents; Teaching Children about Mourning and Grief? by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC Someone once said to me, “parents are the children’s first teachers.” ...
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Suicide Loss Grief Support Group
by Julia Rajtar, M.A.P.S., BCC A loved one who struggles with depression once said, “I know you are doing everything to can to help me and keep me from...
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So Much Loss During the Holidays: Managing Secondary Losses
by Julia Rajtar, BCC, M.A.P.S. My husband would hang the up the Christmas lights outside the house. Now the house is dark and so is my heart, since he...
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Three Good Things, An Attitude of Gratitude, Count Your Blessings
by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, M.A.P.S., BCC When we are grieving, it can feel like we are carrying the weight of the world in our bodies, experiencing the wave of all...
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