Grief & Loss

Grief’s Anacampserote

Death, Grief & Loss, Suffering

[3 min. read—client resource] Grief’s ana. . . what? I didn’t make this word up. I promise. Don’t let its multisyllabic arrangement scare you. It doesn’t roll off the tongue easily, now does it. And I am not trying to be pretentious. What you will discover with...

What We Know When Suffering Doesn’t Make Sense

Grief & Loss, Sin, Suffering

[10 min. read—client & church resource] There are some news headlines that make you say, “How?”—some events in your life that knock the wind out of you, some forms of evil that are too deep to even begin wrapping our heads around. As a therapist, I hear...

Trusting God in the Decision to Care for a Loved One

Calling, Grief & Loss, Suffering

Approximately 34.2 million Americans have provided unpaid care to an adult aged 50 or older in the past 12 months. The majority of caregivers are female (60 percent). Most caregivers are taking care of one person (82 percent) and providing care for a relative (85...

The Holiday Blues

Grief & Loss, Suffering

It’s inevitable for most people. We break out of the routine and spend lots of time doing little more than anticipating and preparing for the biggest holiday in our culture. Some of us get energized (and rightfully so. It does celebrate the birth of Jesus and a...

The Holiday Blues

Death, Grief & Loss, Suffering

Healthy Ways to Capture Memories

Death, Grief & Loss, Miscarriage, Suffering, Trauma

In the end, grief is about how we remember. Memory is powerful. It shapes our lives in many ways. Memory impacts our emotions. Memory shapes the significance we give to current events. Memory influences what we expect from the future. So the effort to grieve well...

Applying the Grief Seminar to Losses Not Caused by Death

General Resources, Grief & Loss

Often it can be hard to recognize grief as grief, because of the absence of a death. Major losses can be caused by many other life changes than someone dying. But this difficulty goes well beyond the challenge of rightly labeling an experience. When we do not...

Thoughts on “Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection”

Anger, Forgiveness, Grief & Loss, Shame, Suffering

Your dad says he’ll pick you up Friday afternoon and the two of you will go camping for the weekend. You don’t see him much because your parents are divorced and you live with your mom. The thought of your dad taking you camping feels so great. In fact, it makes...

Memorial Ceremony for an Unborn Child

Death, Grief & Loss, Miscarriage, Trauma, Women

Grieving the loss of an unborn child can be particularly difficult. No one else had the privilege of knowing your baby and, therefore, many of the rituals of grief (i.e., sharing pictures or stories of how the lost loved one touched other’s lives) cannot be engaged....

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