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Please Don’t Say That
In FaceBook (an internet social site), I put a call out to people who had gone through grief. I asked them what helped most and what helped least when it came to support from friends. The overwhelming...
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How to Support Someone in Grief
Here are some steps you can take on your journey to learning to comfort and support others and yourself: Make it a written goal to acquire the skills of nurturing and comforting people. Many of us...
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To People Further Down the Grief Road
Is someone you care about grieving? Do you wonder what to do to help? You can post questions at The Grief Club site at http://www.MelodyBeattie.net in the forum attached to appropriate groups or...
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The Magic Is in You
Sometimes, we play a little trick on ourselves. We may get so close to someone, we think, I don’t have to let go. Or we may become so successful at manifesting events in our lives, we think, I don’t...
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Book Excerpt – The Grief Club: Destined to Change
The Grief Club: The Secret to Getting Through All Kinds of Change by Melody Beattie. Courtesy of Hazelden Publishing *** Destined to Change: When Dreams Die My friend Andy called one day. Andy was...
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Dealing with Addicted Children
By Bruce K. I’m awakened out of a deep sleep. I hear yelling. I look at the clock. It’s four in the morning. What now, I think, getting dressed. As I walk downstairs, the voices grow louder. Am I...
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Facing Potentially Terminal Illness
By T. Johnson “Stop it!” I scream, as he grabs my shirt collar and slams me into my bedroom wall so hard I see stars. It’s the summer of 1984 and my father is on a rampage, another violent episode...
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Losing a Child
Introduction by Melody Beattie I’ve known Corinne Edwards for many years from my work as a writer and her work as a television host, a writer, and now a coach and the author of a blog. She has...
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When a Pet Needs to Leave
The master list of losses counts 400 potential losses that can push us into grief. I don’t have room for stories about all of them. But the site lacked a story about losing a pet we love, a loss too...
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Please Don’t Say That
In FaceBook (an internet social site), I put a call out to people who had gone through grief. I asked them what helped most and what helped least when it came to support from friends. The overwhelming...
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How to Support Someone in Grief
Here are some steps you can take on your journey to learning to comfort and support others and yourself: Make it a written goal to acquire the skills of nurturing and comforting people. Many of us...
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To People Further Down the Grief Road
Is someone you care about grieving? Do you wonder what to do to help? You can post questions at The Grief Club site at http://www.MelodyBeattie.net in the forum attached to appropriate groups or...
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The Magic Is in You
Sometimes, we play a little trick on ourselves. We may get so close to someone, we think, I don’t have to let go. Or we may become so successful at manifesting events in our lives, we think, I don’t...
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Let Go of the Past
I was sitting outside on the patio one morning. A foggy mist gently covered the peaks of the Ortega Mountain Range. The birds were singing. My mind wandered back to ten years ago and my life in...
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Our Dark Side
While we don’t want to act on our dark side, most of us do from time to time. Acknowledging that it’s there helps give us the power to neutralize it, change, and join the human race. Application: When...
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Forbidden Emotions
What are the emotions you’ve forbidden yourself to feel? Inventory Focus: Are there parts of yourself that you’re repressing, instead of expressing? Each week, you’ve been working on an inventory...
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Letting Go of Sadness
A block to joy and love can be unresolved sadness from the past. In the past, we told ourselves many things to deny the pain: It doesn’t hurt that much…. Maybe if I just wait, things will change.…...
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Grief
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing....
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