Using Art to Express (and Explore) Grief You do not need to be an artist to use art to help support the parts of you that are wounded. Making art about your loss allows your grief to be seen and makes it tangible. Making art is also about the simple joy of creating and interacting […]
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Dear Friends of the Christi Center, We’re so grateful for your support through our Heart Connections event last fall, and I wanted to write and introduce myself as the new Executive and Clinical Director of Christi Center. We’re celebrating with cake and conversation on June 20 from 4:30 to 6:30 at the Christi Center, and
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As we celebrate and honor Black History Month, we are sharing a variety of resources with the goal of educating our community on the differences of grief and enhancing our efforts to better serve our communities. The following literature provides important perspectives and unique cultural considerations about grief in the Black community. The Relentlessness of
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Recently, our Kids Who Kare Coordinator Christi Neville, LPC shared this information with the caregivers of children who attend these groups. Since grief affects sleep for all of us, not just in children, we thought it would be helpful to share with you. Recently at one of our groups, the kids were asked how they
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by Shana Rubenstein Ways to think about kids and grief • While it is rarely something our society likes to admit, children do experience grief and need their families, friends, and communities to recognize and understand what they are going through. • Children under five years old may not understand the finality of death. They
by Susan R. Today, I am sitting in the sunlight making a pillow out of Marilyn’s dress. It feels peaceful, and right. I sew and remember her in it, and all the 40 odd years we were each other’s comrades. Somehow making something that connects me to her seems right. It does not seem right
Remembering My Two Best Friends: Judy and Marilyn Read More »
by Janet Brown This is a photo of me and my grandson, Jacob. His dad Joshua passed away when he was only 6 years old. Joshua was my only child. He was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer on October 12, 1998 and battled for two years. He died on October 4, 2000 at the age
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By Theresa Seibold Nothing in this world can prepare you for this moment in time. And unless someone has been down this fork of the road themselves they will not understand. The most cruel and hurtful comments from those you expect loving support from are bound to happen. Some relationships will be severed. But some
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This post is reprinted by permission of L. Phillips Thune. You can follow Linda’s grief journey on her blog, “Running for Home–In the Words of L. Phillips Thune“, as well as in her previous entries for The Christi Center blog here and here. –Lara Fall certainly came and went with its cooler winds and falling leaves, confused by
Another Year, Another Chance… Read More »
My husband, Ed, died suddenly on August 15, 2012. I find it helpful to write my thoughts, questions, and confusion into letters to him. Sometimes I can “hear” his answers. At the beginning, I never dreamed this grief journey could be so long, that the world could be so dark, that I could feel such
Darkness and Light Read More »
