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Holidays: A Survival Guide

As if each ordinary day isn’t difficult and painful enough for the bereaved to survive, along comes the holiday season with its warmth and good cheer and its traditions and customs of fam...
By Susan Arlen, M.D.
In Coping During Holidays
Monday, November 9, 2015

Hope for the Holidays

It’s about this time of the year that holiday decorations appear on the store shelves, radios play seasonal songs and people make plans to be together for those special days. But for many of us, th...
By Patricia Andrus
In Coping During Holidays
Monday, November 9, 2015

Not Just Another Day

Sherry Williams White, nurse, writer and grief specialist, shares some ideas for handling those special days that you once shared with your loved one. She explains how important it is to trust...
By Sherry Williams White
In Coping During Holidays
Monday, November 9, 2015

Single Bells

Sister Mauryeen O'Brien, grief specialist, shares some coping strategies for single parents as they face the holiday season. She provides simple ideas for keeping the holidays simple. by Maur...
By Mauryeen O’Brien
In Coping During Holidays
Monday, November 9, 2015

The Christmas Tablecloth

The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn, arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they sa...
By Rev. Howard C. Shade
In Coping During Holidays
Monday, November 9, 2015

Unhappy Holidays

Susan Smith, author and editor, shares interviews with grief experts on how to cope with the holidays after a loved one has died.  She shares ideas for making the holidays easier to face and p...
By Susan Smith
In Coping During Holidays
Monday, November 9, 2015

What Happens After Christmas

Sister Mauryeen O'Brien explains how we can adapt to life after the death of a loved one and how we can face the cold world of winter after the Holidays are over. Here's an excerpt from here story:...
By Mauryeen O'Brien
In Coping During Holidays
Monday, November 9, 2015
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