Tag Archives: Stages Of Grief

The Danger of Denial: How Avoiding Your Grief Can Impede Emotional Healing

In The Phantom of the Opera, Erik (the “phantom”) wears a mask to cover the scars that disfigure him- scars incurred by an accident that occurred in years past. Much like the Phantom, many people wear an emotional mask to cover the emotional scars of grief, in some cases, scars that lurk beneath the surface [...]

Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Death: Techniques To Survive The Pain

It does not matter whether or not your child is five weeks old or five years old.  The loss of a child is one of the most heart wrenching ordeals anyone can experience.  Losing a child is, in a sense, losing one’s self.  Whether the parent is the mother or the father, the agony is [...]

Grief Counseling: Explore The Benefits Of A Grief Therapist

From the day that you were born, you began to die. Two things in life are inevitable, death and taxes.  You can evade taxes, but you cannot evade death. Even though you intuitively know that everyone must eventually die, it is little consolation where you are looking at your loved one’s casket being lowered into [...]