The summer sun fades into falling leaves and a cold breeze. Schools are back in full swing and children’s choirs are practicing the songs of the season. First it is all things fall and reminiscent of the harvest season. Before you know it...
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Finding Hope in Hopelessness // Peta Murchinson // TEDxSydney In the first TED talk, a mother shares what her day looks like with her two children. At first it seems incredibly average and comparable to what most mothers experience on a...
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by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC How do I know I’m grieving right? How do I know I’m getting better? When should I seek additional help? These are great questions! There is no “one size fits all” answer to these questions...
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“To everything (turn, turn, turn) there is a season (turn, turn, turn). A time to be born, a time to die. A time to kill, a time to heal. A time to laugh, a time to weep. A time to build up, a time to break down. A time to mourn. A time to cast...
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When we think of grief it is often directly related to physical death. We are expected to experience grief when someone we know or love has died. There are certain thoughts or expectations of what grief is supposed to look like. There are even...
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The bible tells us in the book of Job 14:5 that our “days are numbered.” For the past few weeks, I had been numbering the days. Let me explain. My Dad was ‘”promoted to Glory” nearly one year ago. Every month since the day he...
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by Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC I called a friend whose wife died this summer, and as we were talking he surprised me by saying, “my dad died only a month after Sally, and my mom, three weeks after my dad.” By the time he finished his...
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Many counselors and therapist regularly suggest journaling as a form of expressing feelings and grief. For some there is nothing more therapeutic than sitting down with pen and paper or letting their fingers glide across the keyboard as thoughts...
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Many of you probably heard about the news story recently that followed a mother Killer Whale as she carried her dead calf for an unprecedented 17 days. Researchers have been keeping tabs on a group of endangered killer whales in and near British...
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Let’s be honest. Sometimes when you are grieving, you just don’t want to have to think about the pain or loss. Here are five relatively simple and healthy ways to keep you distracted from your grief. Sweat for the Endorphins Exercise until...
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By Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC Most of us when we think of grief, understand grieving as a model identified by Elizabeth Kubler Ross, in her book, On Death and Dying, 1969. In her well-known work, she stated that her book was about...
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There is nothing quite like losing a spouse or a partner. A spouse is someone who is there with you to make decisions about almost everything from finances to what’s for dinner. When you are in a marriage many of the simple decisions of daily...
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