Tag Archives: Family dynamics

How Can Ceremony and Ritual Ease Loss? An Interview With Holly Pruett: Part Two

Holly Pruett helps clients tell their stories through ceremony and ritual

Today SevenPonds shares part two of our conversation with Holly Pruett, a life-cycle celebrant based out of Portland, Oregon. (Read part one here.) Holly is a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant through the Celebrant Foundation and Institute. She helps her clients find a way … Continue reading

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“When Someone Has A Very Serious Illness: Children Can Learn To Cope With Loss And Change” by Marge Heegaard

Interactive children's therapy book clarifies complicated experiences

Published in 1988, Marge Heegaard’s book “When Someone Has A Very Serious Illness: Children Can Learn To Cope With Loss And Change,” remains widely useful today. This 36-page workbook is a collection of chapters or thematic sections that take a … Continue reading

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“There Are Two Kinds of Terrible” by Peggy Mann

A 12-year-old boy loses his mother and struggles to bond with his father

Peggy Mann wrote “There Are Two Kinds of Terrible,” a book about a child who loses his mother to cancer, in 1977. Much of the technology and hospital policies have changed since the book was released, but the feelings of … Continue reading

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