Tag Archives: grief

Mind: Talking about suicide so we decrease the number of people who die by suicide.

Posted on June 8, 2018 by healingwoman

Suicide is not reversible. Stop before you do it….. I wanted to post on mental health in May but did not because I wanted current statistics: When I last researched mental health five or six years ago, the World Health … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Storm.

Posted on May 3, 2017 by healingwoman

Twenty years ago, there was a blizzard on April first, with snow that came over my knees. This year, on the anniversary, there was a smaller storm. My life is captured in the brackets. Then, we thought we knew what … Continue reading →

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Essay. My Life in Pets VI. Lily and Dying.

Posted on November 19, 2016 by healingwoman

I wrote about Lily’s vibrancy in my last post, and she was vibrant up to the moment she died. I know because I spent that long day with her, including that final moment. How do I describe what cannot be … Continue reading →

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Essay. My Life in Pets III. An Afternoon through Teddy’s Eyes.

Posted on May 13, 2016 by healingwoman

Spring colors are here, the yellow of daffodils, cream and pink blossoms on shrubs and trees, a thousand shades of green. One year April brought a blizzard, and over two feet of powdery white stuff covered the yard and buried … Continue reading →

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Essay. Rings and Ripples.

Posted on January 25, 2016 by healingwoman

This story begins with three rings. When I was a child, my father lost his wedding ring. He looked in the car, in grocery bags, along the walk from garage to door. We looked in the house. We looked until … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Fire that Tempers.

Posted on January 18, 2016 by healingwoman

At one moment on a Saturday, I was hosting an e-mail friend from Sweden who was attending a course in our area and wanted to see the region. We drove up the coast and then came back to our house, … Continue reading →

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Essay. An Afternoon Through Teddy’s Eyes.

Posted on March 31, 2015 by healingwoman

This is the anniversary of a freak Spring blizzard, when over two feet of lovely white stuff suddenly covered the yard and buried shrubs. It started as a gift day, a Monday where no one went to work. I enjoyed … Continue reading →

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Essay. Lily in December.

Posted on December 7, 2014 by healingwoman

Six years ago the Earth paused for a fraction of a second before picking up its rotation: my dog Lily died. That morning, I woke to blood around the bedroom, some of it so abundant it had mounded on the … Continue reading →

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Essay. Shadowland

Posted on February 18, 2013 by healingwoman

Everyone has days that are remembered in light, either the bright light of a warm outdoor day or the soft light of an emotionally warm moment or an evening to remember. Everyone has days that are remembered as dark, sometimes … Continue reading →

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Essay. Meetings and Partings.

Posted on December 23, 2012 by healingwoman

 I wrote this last year, but we continue to have meetings of wonderful individuals entering our lives and we will face partings. I thought of this reflection on love and loss last week when 26 people were killed simply because … Continue reading →

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