Author: Dominick Flarey

Grief Healing: Pet Loss: When A Pet Goes Missing

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This is a horrifying nightmare for pet owners.  Most of us have experienced it. I have with my Siberian Huskies and it puts a pit in your stomach.

The anticipatory grief, the imaginary scenarios all dance in our minds.  It can be sometimes an unresolved issue.

I recall, one time we actually found a stray Siberian Husky and as Husky people took him in.  We put out ads, notified individuals in the community yet he was never picked up by  an owner.  I cannot imagine the pain of the owner, but the husky who recently passed lived a happy 6 years with us, his new family.  This is best scenario we can dream of when we lose a pet, but the scary dreams are always there

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In Defense of the Grief Selfie – What’s Your Grief

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Once upon a time, many moons ago, Eleanor wrote an amazing post about self-portraits.  In that post, in case you missed it or failed to commit it to memory, she said: There was a time when I didn’t have the words to describe my grief even privately. In those early days the only tool I …

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Intriguing article about the psychology of selfies and how grief can play a role in selfies and how they can help the griever overcome certain aspects of grieving by shedding one’s skin so to speak.

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Talking About Death – When Do We Begin?

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It is never too soon to befriend this mysterious, unpredictable life experience that we will all undergo. Many of us cheat ourselves out of fully living life by refusing to discuss death until we absolutely have to. It’s impossible to experience the richness of life when we subconsciously cling to it.

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Elisabeth Kubler Ross brought it to attention to many.  Her ideas on death and preparing for it brought this once taboo subject into the daylight to be discussed among families and their terminally ill members, or any member.

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Grieving the Death of a Sibling

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As a general rule, we hesitate to write about different types of loss.  To clarify, I am not referring to types of grief, which we’ve written about extensively.

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A good article about grieving the death of a sibling.  This is more traumatic than one may think, especially if one is younger.  Even if older, it still a reminder of our own mortality.  Siblings are life long friends that out live even our parental relationships.  They are very key to who we are.  Losing one is something that needs its own specific type of counseling

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The Unlikely Doll Collector: Sentimentality & Holding Onto Items

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This is my doll collection. For those of you who don’t know me, I am not meant to have a doll collection. I mean, just look at how dusty and slouchy those poor dolls are!  It’s as though they’ve been sitting in a laundry basket in a basement closet wrapped in Wegmans shopping bags for the past …

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Good article about how hard it can be to let go of possessions of our deceased loved ones.  While there are cases of extremism, there are also moderate cases of just wanting to hold on.  Most the times, this is harmless and a way for the person to grieve and cope.  Or in other cases a way to remember.

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Planned Parenthood and the Atrocity of Corpse-Selling

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I must admit I was speechless for close to an hour. I saw a video posted online, of an undercover operation in which Planned Parenthood’s top doctor is selling the body parts of aborted children.

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The genocide of the unborn, the atrocities of Planned Parenthood and their concentration camps to the unborn where inhumane experimentation and dissection of human beings is done in the name of profit——this must be stopped.   Will it take a social revolution?  Will it take the hand of God?  Will it take an awakening to the laws of God?  I do not know but what I do know is, it must STOP.

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Grief demands more of a man than a stiff upper lip | Letters

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Letters: The empire is no more, but British males continue to psychologically construct themselves in contrast to women – tough, aggressive, reticent and invulnerable

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The old image of a man who does not cry is more our culture than gender roles.  Men should cry over loss and grief.  There is nothing un masculine about it nor should it be avoided.  The days of the John Wayne stuffer lip are not what we should try to emulate.

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Celebrating a Deceased Loved One’s Birthday

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My family goes a bit overboard with the Happy Birthday song.  For starters, there are a lot of us so that means anywhere from 4 to about 20 voices depending on who’s present.

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This is a way of coping for some and is dependent obviously upon grief support and how the recent the person died.  Still many of the ideas in here is a perfect way to commerate the loss of a loved one.  A lot of good ideas can be found in this article

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Learning A Secret After A Death

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The topic of secrets has been a grief theme for me lately.  It started about a month ago when I watched the documentary Stories We Tell.  Haven’t seen it? No fear, the preview is below and it is on Netflix right now.

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Another element that can complicate grief are secrets.  Secrets we may learn after their death can involve affairs, sexual tendencies, or debt.  These things can startle loved ones and have a tremendous effect on their image of the deceased or how they grieve.

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Perspective on Parenting: Protecting children from grief

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When my first child was born, I experienced a tidal wave of emotions. As I embraced my infant overjoyed, I whispered in her tiny ear her that I’d always protect her.

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There is a fine line between protecting children from grief and not helping them learn to cope with grief and learn important skills.  As parents we need to know when and how to help a child deal with grief.  Every situation is different depending on the childs age and the circumstances of the loss

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