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Tag Archives: Grief
How to Help Someone Who is Grieving
SevenPonds suggests three tips to keep in mind
Experiencing a loss can profoundly affect a person, emotionally, mentally, and physically. If a family member or close friend has recently lost someone, it’s easy to feel helpless, and you may be uncertain how you should act around them. While … Continue reading
Posted in Something Special
Tagged Death, Grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, Healing, helping loved ones grieve, Loss, Mental health
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An Interview with Sherri Lynn Wood
Part 2/2: Sherri explains how her artwork evolved into healing work
Read Part One of the interview, where Sherri guides us in the process of healing through quiltmaking. Dana: Do you explain the parallels between the quiltmaking process and the grief process in your workshops or with clients, or do you … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Art, Craft, Grief, Healing, Quilting, Sherri Lynn Wood
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Looking at the essay, “The Love of My Life” by Cheryl Strayed
Bravely confronting the ways we choose to grieve
“The first time I cheated on my husband, my mother had been dead for exactly one week.” With this powerful statement, Cheryl Strayed begins her personal story of love, life, and death that could very well alter the way we … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Buddhism, Cancer, Cheryl Strayed, Cultural Perspectives, Death, Grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, Grieving, Healing, Sadness, Unexpected Loss
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Enduring Loss
Soulful Expressions from a SevenPonds Reader
This week’s Soulful Expressions is contributed by artist Diane Teske. If you would like to contribute or recommend art about death and dying, please contact dana@sevenponds.com. FLOWERS FADE from the artist: “I was led by my intuition to do a performance piece … Continue reading
An Interview with Sherri Lynn Wood
Part 1/2: The quiltmaker teaches us how the craft can guide us through the grieving process
I first discovered the craft of passage quilting just a few months ago when I featured artist Sherri Lynn Wood here at SevenPonds, and I was very excited to invite her to chat with us more in-depth about the process. … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Art, Craft, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Passage Quilts, Quilting, Sherri Lynn Wood, Workshops
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“Mad Men” created by Matthew Weiner
Looking at the universal qualities that make a good show great
Spoiler alert! With beautiful men and glamorous women, high-stakes narrative twists and thousands of bottomless martinis, it’s safe to say Mad Men might be the greatest show ever to air on television, but not for the reasons you might think. … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Betty Draper, Don Draper, Grief, January Jones, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, Loss, Mad Men, mad men season 5, Roger Sterling
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