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Living in the Spaces Between Words: A Cancer Survivor’s Story
Angela L Hoy
Angela L Hoy
It was meant to be a different kind of year. In March 1998 we said our vows, held our dreams. My first marriage at 43. He was sick. I was well. We had a plan.
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The Grief is Never Gone
Sarah Jeanne Browne
Sarah Jeanne Browne
The Grief is never gone / Grief cannot be minimized / But it can be forgotten / Under the floorboards / Of the heart / Or flow with the sails in the wind
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Faded
Brenda Mulry
Brenda Mulry
I almost didn’t see you when you walked into the shop. Your second oldest, a daughter with long red hair, walked in before you. You were wearing black: a cap, suit jacket, pants, shoes, and a white shirt.
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Coming Home to Joy: Writing for Healing
Wendy Brown-Baez
Wendy Brown-Baez
My path to joy would be years in coming, after death painted me into a corner. My grandson’s joy was as tangible as the sunshine after days of clouds and cold, a magnification of my own inner glow.
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Elsewhere
Sarah Jeanne Browne
Sarah Jeanne Browne
Where are you? / You disappear; no longer here / This year you are Elsewhere / A rainbow that doesn’t end / A trick of light revealing the unsaid / A peace from the rain in my soul / Our future sold to Azrael /
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The Arts and Collective Grieving
Sheila K. Collins
Sheila K. Collins
Collective grief is stimulated by large scale losses and tragedies, some impacting people and communities far from the initial ground zero of the event.
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Working with Difficult Emotions - Navigating the Collective Grief
Cynthia Phelps
Cynthia Phelps
The world feels heavy right now. Between the ongoing wars, devastating hurricanes, and the divisive political climate, It's no surprise that many of us are experiencing a range of difficult emotions, anxiety, overwhelm, sadness, anger and even numbness.
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Collective Grief in Chaotic Times: Shattered Assumptions and Healing
Ken Breniman
Ken Breniman
Whenever I turn on the news, I'm overwhelmed by distress and suffering across the world. Despite taking breaks from the media, the sense of unease never fully fades.
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How to Heal from a Profound Experience
Sarah Snavely
Sarah Snavely
Is it possible “to heal,” as in “done and dusted, I can officially move on from this experience of profound loss and grief, once and for all?” I am provoked. Which means… I’m ready to write.
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In the Field of Cempasúchil
Mariana Bandera
Mariana Bandera
My heart has yet to find the words to express this emotion. I’ve been captivated by the way plant kin choose their season to bloom and offer their medicine to the people. There is no randomness in how plants respond to the shifting winds and the flow of time.
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Broken Hearts, Broken Families, Reconfigured Lives
Sheila K. Collins
Sheila K. Collins
Ambiguous Grief is one of the most difficult loss experiences to traverse. The person is still alive but the relationship you have with them must change. When that happens due to divorce, it leaves both parties, and their children and friends flailing about for clues on how to behave and how to treat one another.
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Identity is the Remedy
Sarah Jeanne Browne
Sarah Jeanne Browne
Identity ignored = Isolating more / Loss leads to love realized in the maddening goodbye / It was held against me / They called it “hysteria” back the day, still some things haven’t changed / But this isn’t The Yellow Wallpaper / More grief like losing Old Yeller / But relief to lose the one who yells / Part heaven; part hell / Who am I now?
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Grief from Afar: Identity Loss and Ambigious Grief as a Pasifika Immigrant
Neshia Alaovae
Neshia Alaovae
Immigrants know identity loss and ambiguous grief intimately well. There are the big losses like not getting to be there for graduations, weddings, births, and deaths. And then there are the small, daily griefs: the constant mispronunciation of our names, the blank stares when our homelands are mentioned, the craving for food that somehow only tastes right in our childhood homes, the way our tongues stumble with rust after not speaking our mother languages in days, months, years.