Category Archives: Recovery

The Grief Club

Grief and recovery from alcoholism, addiction and co-dependency go hand-in-hand. This is an important recovery book. Quoting Groucho Marx, film director Woody Allen once said facetiously, "I’d never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member." But there is a club so universal that adults join and rejoin it [...]

Coping with Grief…

Grief is a very unpleasant thing for anyone to have to go through. The causes for grief maybe many: The loss of a loved one, separation from someone, illness of a loved one, etc. My very close cousin recently went through the sudden loss of her father. When I went to visit her there was [...]

On Losing a Child

Cindy Haines, Chief Medical Officer of HealthDay and Managing Editor of Physician’s Briefing recently remarked that “Grief is an inevitable component of life lived fully. It is a rare soul, indeed, who passes through unscathed. But losing a child ranks at the top of the hardest to bear.” I have thought about this so often: [...]