Writing
fromPsychology Today
3 hours agoLetting Go and Letting Go and Letting Go After Loss
Letting go of items from a loved one is a difficult but necessary part of moving forward in life.
#grief
#grief
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#bereavement
Fundraising
fromIrish Independent
3 weeks agoWexford father organising charity match in memory of son who died at birth - 'When you lose a child, you lose all the days that go with it'
Féileacáin provides essential support for parents affected by the death of a baby around birth, helping them navigate their grief and keep memories alive.
#aging
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThe secret to happiness in your 60s that nobody says out loud: at some point you have to grieve the life you thought you'd have and fully move into the one you actually got - Silicon Canals
Aging brings grief over unfulfilled life expectations and the reality of what was built versus what was imagined.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
4 weeks agoPsychology explains the reason some people grow sweeter with age while others grow bitter has nothing to do with how hard their life was - it's about whether they learned to grieve their losses or hoard them - Silicon Canals
Aging can lead to either bitterness or sweetness, depending on how one processes life's hurts and losses.
#retirement
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoPsychology suggests retirees who become genuinely exhausting to be around are almost never aware they're doing it - because the crankiness is grief wearing a disguise and the neediness is loneliness knocking on the only doors still open, and neither one feels like a choice from the inside - Silicon Canals
Retirement can lead to unexpected grief and identity loss, resulting in irritability and strained relationships.
Careers
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoPsychology suggests the reason retirement feels like grief for so many people isn't weakness - it's because purpose, structure, and identity were all bundled into one thing called a job, and losing the job means losing all three at once - Silicon Canals
Retirement can lead to a profound loss of purpose, structure, and identity, creating feelings of grief and invisibility.
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoPsychology suggests retirees who become genuinely exhausting to be around are almost never aware they're doing it - because the crankiness is grief wearing a disguise and the neediness is loneliness knocking on the only doors still open, and neither one feels like a choice from the inside - Silicon Canals
Retirement can lead to unexpected grief and identity loss, resulting in irritability and strained relationships.
Careers
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoPsychology suggests the reason retirement feels like grief for so many people isn't weakness - it's because purpose, structure, and identity were all bundled into one thing called a job, and losing the job means losing all three at once - Silicon Canals
Retirement can lead to a profound loss of purpose, structure, and identity, creating feelings of grief and invisibility.
#loss
Cancer
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoAfter all the horrible things we've been through,' he said to me, if I die of cancer, it will make a bad story': Siri Hustvedt on losing Paul Auster
Grief after losing a loved one can distort time perception and create overwhelming emotional and physical challenges.
Cancer
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoAfter all the horrible things we've been through,' he said to me, if I die of cancer, it will make a bad story': Siri Hustvedt on losing Paul Auster
Grief after losing a loved one can distort time perception and create overwhelming emotional and physical challenges.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days agoMother ends life at Swiss clinic four years after son's death
I can confirm that Wendy Duffy, at her own request, was assisted to die on 24 April and that the procedure was completed without incident and in full compliance with her wishes. Neither we nor any of the professional staff assessing her mental capacity had any doubt as to her intention, understanding and independence of both thought and action.
Medicine
fromVulture
6 days agoApex Feels More Like a Real Movie Than Your Average Netflix Joint
Ben muses about what's behind their shared love of extreme activities, suggesting that while some seek perfection or a thrill, 'personally, I think the wiring is just messed up.' This insight foreshadows the darker elements of the story as he hunts Sasha with a bow and arrow.
Independent films
#family-dynamics
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoThe hardest thing about healing isn't the work itself. It's the quiet grief of realizing how many years you spent believing the problem was you, when the actual problem was an environment that needed you to believe that in order to keep functioning - Silicon Canals
Family systems may require a child to remain unwell for their own functionality, leading to grief and loss when the child realizes their true self.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoThe hardest thing about healing isn't the work itself. It's the quiet grief of realizing how many years you spent believing the problem was you, when the actual problem was an environment that needed you to believe that in order to keep functioning - Silicon Canals
Family systems may require a child to remain unwell for their own functionality, leading to grief and loss when the child realizes their true self.
Pets
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology says the grief people feel when a dog dies is often heavier than they expected because the dog witnessed years of their private self that no human in their life ever saw - Silicon Canals
Grief for a pet can be profound and complex, often surpassing societal expectations based on relationship hierarchy.
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 week agoWriting to Stay Alive: Lynn Breedlove from Trust Me and the Sound of Loss - KALTBLUT Magazine
The album that emerged is a series of vignettes about the men in Breedlove's life, living and dead, beloved and infuriating. It spans the AIDS crisis, chosen family, knife collections, and a complicated inheritance of grief that Breedlove transforms, as he always has, into something that makes people laugh and cry at the same time.
Music
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology says adult children don't grieve their aging parents all at once - they grieve them in a thousand tiny deaths, like the first time your mother forgets she told you the same story twice, or the afternoon you notice your father's hands shaking when he signs his name - Silicon Canals
Anticipatory grief involves mourning the gradual changes in living parents, representing incremental losses rather than just preparing for death.
fromCalifornia Post
2 weeks agoMom of 2 boys killed by LA socialite in hit-and-run crash reveals vile message killer sent from jail
Last week, Rebecca Grossman-the woman who killed my two precious boys, Mark and Jacob, by speeding through a crosswalk-made a request that I would go visit her in prison... to 'see the circumstances she is in.' And that she is 'A victim.'
SF parents
Mindfulness
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
2 weeks agoHow to keep your career going in the midst of grief - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Grief can disrupt work, but maintaining structure and realistic expectations helps navigate both loss and professional responsibilities.
#emotional-resilience
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoPsychology says the reason some people become gentler as they age while others become bitter has nothing to do with personality. It depends on whether they processed their grief along the way or stored it in their body and called it toughness - Silicon Canals
Grief, especially non-finite losses, significantly influences whether individuals become gentler or more bitter as they age.
Parenting
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoMy father grew up in the 1960s and he's the toughest man I know - not because he's never been broken, but because I have never once seen him stay broken, and the speed with which he gets back up has always looked to me less like strength and more like a man who was simply never taught that staying down was an option - Silicon Canals
Men of previous generations often lacked the emotional vocabulary to process grief, leading to a stoic facade in the face of loss.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoPsychology explains people who remain joyful into their 70s aren't the ones who suffered least - they're the ones who grieved most honestly, who let the losses be as large as they actually were, and who came out the other side with enough room left to let something good back in - Silicon Canals
Genuine happiness in old age often comes from embracing grief and loss rather than avoiding it.
Media industry
fromIrish Independent
3 weeks agoWhy do we cover inquests when it can pain families? The objections to this are understandable, but often misplaced
Journalists face the challenging task of reporting on inquests, often intruding on grieving families, yet this can lead to powerful stories.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoPsychology suggests people who become difficult to be around with age are almost always carrying an unprocessed grief - for the life they expected and didn't get, for the recognition they believed they had earned and never received, for the version of themselves they were supposed to become - and the difficulty is what that grief sounds like when it has been stored as resentment for long enough to become the way they experience everything - Silicon Canals
Unprocessed grief can manifest as bitterness and negativity, stemming from unfulfilled dreams and unmet expectations in life.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoThe people who seem unbothered when someone pulls away aren't indifferent. They've simply been left enough times that their nervous system learned to begin the departure before the other person finishes theirs, and what looks like calm is actually a head start on grief. - Silicon Canals
Emotional responses often begin before conscious awareness, as the body processes grief and loss through involuntary reactions.
fromInverse
3 weeks agoKelly Marie Tran's Eerie New Ghost Movie Unearths A Forgotten Piece Of American History
Miao wanted to explore the lingering cultural grief of a historic atrocity, stating, 'That's a ghost story.' This reflects the fragmentation and feelings of grief that come with being haunted by something lost.
Film
fromNew York Post
4 weeks agoSlain NYPD hero Jonathan Diller's widow covers her ears in court as husband's last moments are described
Defense attorney Jamal Johnson claimed, 'All of the [Command Response Team] officers in this case, they are invested. They have a motive to lie.' This statement was made during the trial of Guy Rivera, accused of killing NYPD officer Jonathan Diller.
Law
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoI grew up with a mother who was physically there but emotionally unreachable - and the confusion that produced, the child's inability to grieve a parent who is standing right in front of them, is the thing I have spent the most years in therapy trying to untangle and the thing I understood least for the longest - Silicon Canals
Emotional absence from a present parent can lead to profound feelings of unworthiness in a child.
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