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- HOW TO REDUCE THE TRAUMA OF WATCHING THE WTC CRISES - by "Teaching someone how, and when, to associate or dissociate is one of the most profound and pervasive ways to change the quality of a person's experience, and the behavior that results from it. Dissociation is particularly useful for intensely unpleasant memories."
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Views: 915 - Sending Presents To Heaven - by Submitted on Mar 30, 2007 from Donna WebsterIt had been six months ago today that ten-year-old Emily’s mom had made her way to Heaven. Emily missed her mom each and every day, but what she was most worried about today is how she can find a way to send her birthday gift to her mom in Heaven. She had two weeks to find the perfect gift and ...
Views: 1417 - Face of death - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2007 from Cheryline LawsonThe face of death is an ugly sight. When it appears, it causes so much heartache, upheaval, and confusion. Death always comes unannounced. It requires no invitation, but yet it is inevitable and unwanted. How do we face death when we want to live? We need to face life head on and live each day ...
Views: 1435 - Illegitimate Survivors - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2007 from Yvonne SullivanIllegitimate children, or children born out of wedlock, are often excluded from the obituaries of their paternal family members (i.e., father and half-siblings). The situation is further complicated when a child is a result of an adulterous, or extramarital, relationship. The writer (or the ...
Views: 4619 - The Power of Story in the Face of Mortality - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2006 from Jennifer LoudenI. There is a story my father has told my entire life. It is 1964. I am two and he is forty-three. We live on Park Lane in Bloomington, Indiana and every morning when my mother releases me from my crib, I bump down the stairs in my night diaper and I crawl across the kitchen tile and down two ...
Views: 1156 - Growth Happens - by Submitted on May 12, 2006 from Leah LightMrs. Anderson’s class of first graders crowd around the glass cage containing their science project. They have spent the last several weeks witnessing its evolution from caterpillar to chrysalis to graceful, golden Monarch butterfly. And today is the big day to set it free. Mrs. Anderson ...
Views: 1019 - How to Overcome the Fear of Dying - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2006 from Tim OngAs a doctor and a hospice volunteer, one of the most common fears that I encounter in my job is the fear of dying. In fact, this fear is so common that we have come to accept it as part and parcel of our life. In our fear-driven world where a lot of our actions are motivated by fear, the fear of ...
Views: 3509 - What Kind of People? - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2005 from Michael LevyWhat Kind of People? by Michael Levy. What kind of people would give scientists $333,000,000 to spend on sending one rocket into deep space, so that it can smash into a comet 82,000,000 miles away, while 30,000 people a day die in Africa from poverty? Is it more important to derive small ...
Views: 989 - Suicide: In Memory - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2004 from Kay KopitDebra was radiant in her scarlet dress wrapped tautly over her swollen belly. Proudly she gave each guest a tour of the nursery, decorated in yellows and greens with love and care, as she awaited the birth of her first child. I commented to her friend Carol, “What a perfect day for a shower. ...
Views: 2088 - Triggers That Call Their Name - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2004 from Mitch CarmodyOn the day my son died Dec.1st 1987, something shifted in my soul, something deep inside my being got rewired. As a newly bereaved parent you anticipate that the affects and symptoms of shock will eventually wear off as reality arm wrestles for control of our conscious thought. Shock ...
Views: 1934 - Saying Goodbye to Mom - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2004 from Cate CavanaghOn October eleventh, it had been one month since my mom's passing. She was almost ninety-three, a good long age, many would say but, her life (and mine) was one of grief as a result of her serious, severe and long term disability when I was nine. She had suffered a stroke from which she fought ...
Views: 5451 - Custom Designed Angel Pins - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2004 from Carla SchwilleCustom Designed Angel Pins are Gaining New Interest Tomball, Tx - September 3, 2004 – Angel Pins have been around for many years, but in the past few years, customers buying angel pins are interested primarily in designs that have a personal meaning to them. Carla More of Carla’s Angels has ...
Views: 2383(1 vote) - Echo's Transition - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2004 from Nedda WittelsEcho's Transition Echo was a flea-bitten gray horse, with brown speckles everywhere, and crystal clear hairs in her mane and tail. We met in October, 1976, when she was a broodmare on an Arabian farm in New York State. A beginner at riding doesn't usually start out with a novice horse, but I ...
Views: 1911 - Book Excerpt: Evenings at Five - by Submitted on May 04, 2004 from Yolanda CardenChapter One Five o'clock sharp. "Ponctualité est la politesse des rois": Rudy quoting his late father, a factory owner (textiles) in Vienna before the Nazis came. The Pope's phone call, followed by the grinding of the ice, a growling, workmanlike sound, a lot like Rudy's own sound, compliments ...
Views: 1267(1 vote) - Book Excerpt: Evenings at Five - by Submitted on May 04, 2004 from Yolanda CardenChapter One Five o'clock sharp. "Ponctualité est la politesse des rois": Rudy quoting his late father, a factory owner (textiles) in Vienna before the Nazis came. The Pope's phone call, followed by the grinding of the ice, a growling, workmanlike sound, a lot like Rudy's own sound, compliments ...
Views: 963(1 vote) - The Gifts of Dying and Death - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2011 from Maria DohertySadness sears my soul today Words will not come for tears Greyness shadows healing light Lost in a darkness I fear to name. Death must come and come it will Loss and grief the price we pay For the giving of our hearts. I look at you and see our parting I look at you and sense ...
Views: 2165(1 vote) - The Day I Died - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2004 from Avalon De WittThe happiest day of my life was the day I died. I was three years old and living in Richmond, Indiana. It was a sunny day and my dad decided to take me fishing. We went to a nearby river and my dad chose a spot next to a small bridge where he cast his line and relaxed into a folding lawn chair ...
Views: 1239 - The Gift in a Smile - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2011 from Maria DohertyMy friend was late again. Mentally I shifted from irritation to acceptance as I ordered a second pot of tea to break up the time of waiting in the Sports Club lounge. People were starting to come in - some waiting to begin their activities, some sweatily glowing from their exertions. A ...
Views: 2072(1 vote) - Learning To Live - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2003 from Julie DonleyDeath. No one wants to talk about it and yet none of us will escape it. When it happens to someone we know, most people don’t know how to handle it. And it’s because people are uncomfortable about it and it’s so final that people fear the most. In fact, there’s only one thing that tops death on ...
Views: 2790(1 vote) - How are you dealing with your feelings about the war? - by Submitted on Apr 02, 2003 from John GrayIn these trying and troubled times, it can be difficult to get the feelings of “impending doom” out of your head. War, terrorism, the bad economy, you read about it in the newspaper, see headlines on the internet, and watch the war coverage on TV. It’s natural with this level of exposure to ...
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