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How to write a Condolence Letter
A condolence letter or note may be the most important type of correspondence you ever write but they are also the most challenging. Knowing exactly what to say to someone who is grieving is difficult, especially when it seems that words just aren’t enough to express your feelings.
The Final Rung: Allowing your Relationship with your Loved One to be Transformed
Experiencing the death of someone we love can feel like walking through fire, but we must continue walking until we reach the other side of our grieving....
The Sixth Rung: Coping with Grief
The cornerstones of coping with grief are: taking care of yourself, finding support, paying attention to how you are feeling, finding ways to express how you are feeling, and finding ways to honor your loved one who has died....
The Fifth Rung: Finding Support
The first piece of advice that most bereavement experts will give to a grieving person is to find support. ...The Fourth Rung: Grieving and Depression
The normal depression that occurs with grieving is sometimes called situational depression. Situational depression occurs when an event outside of the person triggers symptoms of depression that lessen over time as the triggering situation is faced and acclimated into the life of the individual....The Third Rung: Understanding how Trauma Affects Grieving
A traumatic death is a death that occurs suddenly or unexpectedly. Some examples of traumatic death include: a death that involved an act of violence, suicide, accidental death, and death that is viewed as unnatural. ...
The Second Rung: Understanding the Stages of Grieving
In the late 1960’s, death and bereavement expert Elisabeth Kubler-Ross brought to light what she described as the five stages of grieving. These stages are: anger, denial, bargaining, depression, and acceptance....
The First Rung: Seeing Grief for What It Is
In the most basic of terms, grief can be defined as the reaction we experience to a loss, but anyone who has grieved knows that this is a stark definition. ...
A Personal Guide To Grieving and Bereavement
How do we move forward? How do we find peace? How do we begin to heal from our loss? ...How Teenager Experience Bereavement
It is important to check in with a child of this age to make sure that they understand that their feelings are acceptable, even if they are angry at the deceased....
How Children Experience Bereavement
Children, like adults, have very individual ways of dealing with grief. How children experience bereavement is greatly dependant on their age....Dealing with Grief as Adult
There is no correct way to go through the grieving process, though there are recognizable stages that many people will experience....Bereavement Physically Emotionally
Because you experience grief both physically and emotionally, and the two are intertwined, it is sometimes easier to begin to heal by addressing your physical hurts....Bereavement - The new reality
Eventually the reality and finality of death will begin to sink in. You may experience waves of grief that are more intense than anything you have experienced....
Bereavement Effects on our Lives
Bereavement has a profound effect on our lives. Bereavement is a great wound, one that we experience emotionally and physically....
Forms of Grief
Grief can take many forms, and its duration can be weeks, months, or years. Given time and full expression, grief tends to work itself out....
Understanding Bereavement
Bereavement is the most painful experience of human life. Bereavement, or the death of a loved one, is a universal human experience. Anyone who loves another person is vulnerable to that loss and the resulting tide of grief that accompanies it....
New Web Platform to Celebrate a life!
Read and inform yourself about about how to celebrate a life of a lost loved one. How to cope with grief and how to organise a funeral....Author info
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