Category: Healing

365 Days of Healing – What I Learned in My First Year of Grieving

.Reading time 16 minutes.

This post also published at The Mighty.   It seems that everyone feels they know about grief.  Everyone has a story to tell, or advice to dispense.  Many people do know about grief, but yet, it’s a very personal thing.  The information I’m about to provide may help you.  It may allow you to understand […]

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Unsteady

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Years ago, I had an “incident” with a fun house barrel.  A and I, along with my brother, his wife, and their two boys, had taken our girls to a local fair (years before our son was born or even thought about).  The small town agricultural fair is pretty much tradition for anyone who grew up […]

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Grief – The Last Taboo

.Reading time 11 minutes.

A version of this post also published at The Mighty. We (finally, thankfully) live in a time where we can talk about many topics once considered taboo.  Subjects which were once not brought up in “polite company” are now openly discussed (and rightfully so).  Things such as sexual assaults, interracial relationships, homosexuality, mental illness and […]

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Let’s Talk

.Reading time 10 minutes.

It’s Saturday night as I write this, and I’ve only just gotten home a short while ago after a pleasant dinner with a couple from back “home”.  I went to school with the husband, and already felt as though I knew his wife through her Facebook posts, although we’ve only crossed paths a couple of […]

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