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Charlotte Nuessle
This poem came out of a dream that caught my attention. It reminds me of the power of being curious that comes from writing as an inquiry.
Friend Grief in the Workplace
They're friends and coworkers, so when they die, it's not only a personal and professional loss, but a challenge: How can you grieve and get your work done, too?
A resource by Victoria Noe
They're friends and coworkers, so when they die, it's not only a personal and professional loss, but a challenge:
How can you grieve and get your work done, too?
In Friend Grief in the Workplace: More Than an Empty Cubicle you'll meet people whose friends were coworkers, too: in a TV newsrooms, a rectory, a Broadway show and on a baseball diamond.
You'll learn how they met that challenge and continue to honor the friendships that lasted longer than 9-5.
My Inspiration
I've always been interested in how people coped with grief when the friend who died was also a coworker. I've lost coworkers over the years, especially when I worked in the HIV/AIDS community, but not while we worked together.
Some of that interest came from stories in the news: baseball players and Broadway producers and rock musicians. The stories told about the friendships, but not how the grieving friend coped. So I decided to dig into their stories to see what I could learn.
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A poem about grace and being present in the midst of suffering and grief.
Omnia Mirari
Death is a spiritual initiation & you have been walking toward it since your first breath. The question isn’t if it’s coming but if you’ll meet that moment fully awake.
Charlotte Nuessle
This poem came out of a dream that caught my attention. It reminds me of the power of being curious that comes from writing as an inquiry.
Charlotte Nuessle
A poem about grace and being present in the midst of suffering and grief.
Omnia Mirari
Death is a spiritual initiation & you have been walking toward it since your first breath. The question isn’t if it’s coming but if you’ll meet that moment fully awake.
