A Grief Support Blog

This blog will allow you the opportunity to acquire both support and guidance after experiencing a significant loss.

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Grief Can Be Scary

Most of us deal with grieving experiences on a regular basis and never realize it! While most people associate grief with death, it’s something that reaches far beyond that narrow focus. Grief is the normal and natural reaction to every change we experience in life. Many of those changes are so small that, while we have feelings attached to those events, we do not label them as grief.

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  • Oct 23, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Grief Is Nothing New!

The normal and natural feelings that are grief are hardly new. In ancient Latin, dolor was one of many words used to express this most basic of human emotions of sorrow, broken hearted and grief. People have been expressing their feelings relating to loss since our earliest written history.

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  • Oct 16, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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The Grief of Adopted Children

This article was inspired by a reader who wrote to us about the grief issues faced by his granddaughter, who was adopted at five months of age from Korea. In researching this piece, we have talked with other adoptive parents as well, but will avoid sharing some of the specific of each situation to protect the privacy of both the parents and the children.

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  • Oct 09, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Las Vegas Shooting

The name “Las Vegas” conjures up a variety of immediate images, primarily associated with gambling, entertainment and sightseeing. That was before 10:00 PM on Sunday, October 1, 2017. At 10:08, during the Route 91 Harvest Festival, shots rang out from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

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  • Oct 03, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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The Grief Of A Miscarriage

The grief of a miscarriage is often forgotten and ignored by others. This type of grief is frequently discounted and falls under the heading of Disenfranchised Grief.

What is a miscarriage?

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  • Sep 27, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Delayed Grief

The term Delayed Grief is used to describe grief that is postponed and resurfaces sometime later. It is not unusual, after a loss, that there are many things that must be done. Often people decide that they “must be strong” for all those around them and suppress their own feelings of pain and loss, so that they can be there for others.

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  • Sep 18, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Chronic and Prolonged Grief

Chronic and Prolonged Grief are two labels for grief that lasts over an extended period of time. The people so identified continue to suffer through their grieving experience for years without ever effectively moving through the grieving process.

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  • Sep 15, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Grief Support during devastating world events

One can’t turn on the television, listen to the radio, or scroll a news feed on social media without being bombarded by events transpiring in multiple areas around the world these days. The sheer magnitude of events transpiring is staggering…and the amount of grief being experienced is beyond words.
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  • Sep 13, 2017
  • Ed Owens
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Discounted Grief In Children

The term Discounted Grief has been replaced in professional circles with Disenfranchised Grief. Basically, this refers to issues such as divorce, the break-up of a relationship and moving, to name but a few, that others may not recognize as grief producing experiences.

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  • Sep 11, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Masked Grief

There are many ways in which people attempt to work through the grieving process. Those who recognize that grief, by definition, is an emotion and make a concerted effort to deal with what is emotionally incomplete in the relationship that has caused their grief, can be very successful in moving forward.

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  • Sep 05, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
  • 5 comments

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