Three Years After My Mother Died – On Grieving, Death and Moving On – One of the readers of my blog sent me an email a few days ago asking for advice on dealing with the death of a loved one, and thanking me for the honest posts I wrote following my own mother’s death in December 2008. I still miss my mother very much, but luckily the sharp edges have faded: the loss is as much part of my life as my (dyed) blonde hair or my love of Pearl Jam, so its familiarity has diminished the sting. For anybody going through grief, remember that your friends and family love you and are thinking of you. It can be tempting to take it personally when people don’t reach out to see how you are, particularly in your darkest moments and those times when you feel angry and alone, but it’s entirely possible they feel awkward and don’t know what to say. Just because they’re not saying anything, however, doesn’t mean they’re not thinking of you. I’m a huge advocate of therapy! Talk it out, hug it out, cry it out, do what you need to do. (I drank it out, though I wouldn’t necessarily recommend that path!) If you’re open to it, however, life DOES go on, and it WILL get better. Hugs and love to you, Nadine

 

NHS Offering Student Grief Support Group

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These school based groups provide a safe, non-judgmental space for grieving teens to connect with peers and receive support around the death of a parent or sibling. Topics covered in the group include normalizing grief reactions, identifying emotions, …
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Grief focus in kids' group

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A DEATH in the family can be a dreadful trauma for a child to cope with. Parents are often grieving as well and dealing with their own emotions. Hilda's House, under the umbrella of Ipswich Hospice, runs regular kids' grief groups and the next one …
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Parenting After the Death of a Child

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A child's death can have a profound effect on surviving parents and siblings, and it can be nearly impossible to know just how to handle the grief. Many studies show that the death of a child causes more complex grief than any other kind of death.
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DeSean Jackson Scores Big Off Field Supporting Grieving Children

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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — In 2009, DeSean Jackson and his four brothers grieved the death of their father, Bill, from pancreatic cancer. "I miss him every day. He inspired me to be successful on and off the field," says DeSean, #10, …
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