This summer, take your sorrow for a walk "And in the middle of a winter I finally learned that there was an invincible summer inside me." I remembered those words of Albert Camus as I thought about what I wanted to say in our first post in 2017. I hope that summer dwells inside us all the year.
Christmas in the Grieving Land Christmas seems to amplify our losses. The longing of the one who left reaches unbearable levels. That is why we seek in existing texts and in our own experience a message that brings a greater meaning to all this and that warms the broken hearts
Dying in peace, surrounded by love Dying at home is a right for the one who is passing and a blessing for the ones want to say goodbye at the place where the beloved one has spent all the life.
Welcome your pain The airplane accident with Chapecoense soccer team has recently shocked the world. I know it hurts and it is going to hurt for a long time, more than all the commotion. When facing another tragedy I have learned it was needed to welcome pain with patience. The poet Rainer Maria Rilken's words were with me all the time those days.
It was just a dog… Do you think we go through the grieving process for our pets with the same intensity of the love we have for them?
What I have learned about suicide Often treated with the silence of taboo or sensationalism, suicide advances as a serious worldwide public health problem. How empathy has helped me to tackle such a painful and touchy subject.
The unimaginable in the imaginary There is a distorted collective imaginary about grieving and this only makes this moment even more difficult, filled with judgment and prejudice
The last letter Regret is the most reported feeling by those who are close to death. This beautiful design created by Stanford University inspires patients to a loving final statement to make amends : writting a letter of recognition, love, forgiveness and farewell.
Frozen emotions: the sedation for pain Although the society insists in formatting the grieving process emphasizing crying and sadness as expected manifestations for this moment, it is no uncommon to hear people reporting they have lost the capacity of feeling, of having some kind of emotion, good or bad, after an important loss
“Getting sad seemed very scary to me” In a touching report, Rosane tells us about her Dad's suicide, at the age of 44, when she was 17. " I got devastated and needed to reinvent myself, piece by piece, as if I was some kind of mosaic."
