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Everyone can agree that receiving a homemade card, gift, or baked good warms the heart. Homemade meals bring back memories or share cultures. They allow us to connect, tell the other person about our day, or listen to jokes and reminisce...
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When carrying your grief, you may find times when you want to find comfort, but there are no options around you that have helped. You may not be motivated to work on your hobbies or focus on your job. There may be times when you feel like you...
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As you carry your grief, you may have found many times when you felt like you needed to “let it all out” or where you didn’t want to talk to anyone. Different emotions consumed you and you were not always able to express those...
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“How are you” is a general question we tend to ask quite casually. We use it as a conversation starter or simply as a way to acknowledge the other, “Hi, how are you?” When someone dies, we use that exact phrase to ask how the bereaved is. What...
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At Bakken-Young, we understand the stress of planning funerals, making arrangements, cremation, and what goes into it. Because of this, we have resources available to you where you can meet with us and ask any question you can think of. You can...
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You are more than you think you are. Grief is a human experience, and even if it feels like it is too much, let that be a sign that it was worth it…because you loved. You still love. You love them and always...
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One study recognizes multiple cases of children, adults, and elderly who all improved emotionally and physically after an animal-assisted therapy session. Those who were undergoing pain, anxiety, and depression experienced a decrease...
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Happy New Year! Open a window to let out the old and welcome in the new year. To that, a bereaved responded, “Well then, I better open the doors, windows, and roof,” with a chuckle in his voice. Another bereaved responded, “The...
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Imagine this: your loved ones are stressed. Scrambling for answers, arguing amongst each other, and worried. It could’ve been prevented. You could have saved them extra stress and time planning. You didn’t preplan your funeral, and...
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Music is communication. It is a connection. Music is freeing, calming, or even emotional. It is storytelling, love, fear, anxiety, depression, or all of the above. Music describes how you feel, and what you didn’t know you felt. It can help...
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“They brought my dog to the hospital to see me. I think that’s the thing that probably was the divider between going into depression and...
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