I wanted to let people know about a new grief and healing resource that is opening. It’s a site I built titled “The Way Men Heal” and can be found at http://thewaymenheal.com The site house nearly five hours of videos about grief and healing. Many of the videos are specifically about the masculine side of […]
Guest Post – Grief: The Healing Choice – Arleah Shechtman
I will never forget April 13, 1978: it was the day I walked into my house and discovered that my fifteen-year-old daughter, Sharon, had died of a drug overdose. Yes, I know that is a difficult sentence to read. And even though I have done so numerous times, it’s also difficult to write. Almost […]
The Secret of Joyful Relationships
The Secret to Joyful Relationships Tom Golden LCSW After years of research and clinical data psychotherapists have come to some very interesting conclusions about what makes a successful relationship. The first and possibly most important element has to do with the flow of positive feedback within the relationship. We have known that positive and complimentary […]
Grief is Invisible in the United States
Nearly one in seven people at any given time are grieving in the U.S. That’s a lot of folks. To make matters worse it’s almost impossible to tell who is, and who is not grieving. This makes grief invisible and when it’s invisible it makes it very hard to know who or how to help. […]
Sadness has a bad name
One of the things that makes grief so invisible in our culture is that sadness has a bad name. People think of sadness as something that needs to be hidden, something that others shouldn’t see. It wasn’t always like this. In Chaucers time if you ate and drank “sadly” it meant you did it with […]