I have a special connection to #WildRiver#StatePark as it's the last place where I went #camping with my beloved #dog Gunnar. Gunnar was truly the best dog ever. He's been gone since March of last year but sometimes the #grief comes on so suddenly that it's like being punched in the gut. I miss him terribly & I treasure my memories of walking through the prairie grass and sitting by the river.
Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to grieve and heal at your own pace.
Ahmed Barhoum lost his wife, their five-year-old daughter, and five other relatives in an Israeli air attack on their home in Rafah last night.
“This is a world devoid of all human values and morals,” Barhoum told The Associated Press news agency while holding the body of his slain daughter, Alaa.
“They bombed a house full of displaced people, women and children. There were no martyrs but women and children.”
It is an honor to participate in the #Kensington#RedwoodCity Open House for #Caregivers. The event will take place on May 2, and if you are in the neighborhood, please consider coming. My #memoir -- Finding the Right Words -- which I wrote with #UCSF#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, will be the departure point for the discussion, which will lay the groundwork for a supportive conversation about #caregiving, #grief, #love, and #dementia.
At this month’s partner/spousal bereavement support group, the topic came up of all of the moments of discovery or delight that are made more profound or joyful by having someone to turn to and share them with. This include big moments (like experiencing the recent eclipse), little moments (like learning a piece of trivia), commonplace events that are suddenly precious (like spending time with one’s children or grandchildren), and striking events whose meaning or appropriate response is hard to grasp (like finding an injured bird).
The absence of a kindred spirit who is committed to deeply knowing us forces us to find a new way of knowing ourselves and of making daily life still feel real, surprising, or enjoyable. It’s hard to stay buoyant and avoid taking ourselves too seriously without someone around interrupting our own thoughts with their silly and surprising observations.
Mourners grieve during the funeral of Palestinian Yazan Ishtayeh, who was killed in an Israeli raid, in Salim, near Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
The good news is that thanks to the help of TeaHRT and @SleepyCatten , I have my spare #HRT coming to me. Crisis averted. I'm also meeting with a new, Medicaid-approved psychiatrist and therapist that'll be needed for the bad news.
The bad news? This morning, my mom passed away at the age of 60 due to complications of lung cancer. She was fighting via chemo on-and-off for the past five years. But about a-week-&-a-half ago, it reached the point where she sought at-home hospice. Me and my siblings were caretakers and assisted the hospice nurses as mom deteriorated more rapidly than expected.
I'm an emotional wreck right now. Thank the-deity-of-your-choice for dogs giving me support in this trying time.
07 February, 2023
Mesut Hançer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, killed while asleep when her grandmother’s home collapsed during an earthquake in Kahramanmaraş, southern Turkey.
Palestinian father cries as he holds the body of one of his two daughters after they were both killed in an Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on April 4, 2024 [Mohammed Abed/AFP]
Palestinian photographer Mohammad Salem has won the World Press Photo contest for Asia for his photograph ‘A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece’.
The photograph, which has been seen around the world shows Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embracing the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023.
The Abu Draz family mourns their relatives killed in an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a hospital morgue in the southern city of Rafah on April 4, 2024 [Fatima Shbair/AP Photo]
NEW: The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us, but an early reckoning is making it clear that we failed to learn from the past and have yet to come to terms with the loss of life and society-wide trauma.
In this episode of "Civic," an epidemiologist shares how a lack of public trust led to unnecessary deaths, AIDS activists discuss the importance of facing trauma and a woman who lost her father to COVID is fighting for a memorial for those who died.
The first alleged nonagricultural use of the word "culture" occurred in the Tusculanae Disputationes, a text on Greek philosophy. Penned by Cicero around 45 B.C., it used the phrase "cultura animi" to suggest the psyche could be cultivated in the same manner as a grapevine: through strategic care and attention. He developed this concept during his withdrawal from public life. Tullia, his only daughter, had died after giving birth to her second son, and, overwhelmed by emotion, Cicero disappeared from Roman high society. He escaped to his villa in Tusculum, or more specifically, to its library, where he immersed himself in Greek classics. It was widely known that Tullia was his favorite child, and without her he wasn't sure how to exist. His only recourse was to study, searching for methodologies that would enable him to confront his pain. But, of course, he knew such an endeavor, even as he undertook it, was bound to fail. He wrote to his friend Atticus, "My sorrow defeats all consolation."
A mourner reacts next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, at a hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Tomorrow is October's birthday. He would have been 12. I miss my kitty so much. He's been gone 10 months now. It's not fair and I still wish I could have him back. F*ck cancer. I love you with my whole heart sweet boy, and I always will. #cats#CatsOfMastodon#PetLoss#Grief
A Palestinian woman mourns over the body of a relative in the courtyard of al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital after he was killed in Israeli strikes on al-Mawasi camp for displaced people
I just reviewed Sloane Crosley's 'Grief is for People'. It's a wondrous ride through grief, what it is, what it's not, and how impossible it is to pin down.