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by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, BCC Someone said this of the dying: Most people are...
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Most of us spend our days following a similar pattern day to day, based...
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In today’s world, we have many friends and family spread across the nation, with...
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Recently, I lost my father. He passed away after a very long illness and...
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by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC When someone dies, we struggle with what...
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In many households with children, when something dies it is often in reference to...
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The winter season can compound the difficulty of managing grief. The shorter and darker days of winter decrease the sunlight we experience and this can impact our mood. The feelings of grief may intensify for no other reason than the decreased...
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In a grief groups I often hear the bereaved say that family and friends...
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“Aren’t you over it yet?” “Are you still crying?” “Why aren’t you crying, didn’t...
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It may seem impossible, but here are some helpful hints to find the joy in Christmas even while you’re grieving. Joy and grief can coexist. Each moment of each day has something new within it and when a person is grieving it is okay to feel...
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With the holidays quickly approaching, and the anticipation of all the merriment to come, hearts beat gleefully for most of us as we begin the preparations and celebrate the honored rituals of family time together. In a family, whose parent...
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Someone once told me, think of Dementia as a bicycle wheel. There are many spokes on that wheel, some of them are, Alzheimer’s disease, Lewie body disease, neurovascular disease, etc. Dementia is the broad term to describe a disease that causes...
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