WELCOME TO OUR BLOG
Welcome to the SevenPonds.com blog – a community-driven extension of SevenPonds.com! I hope you find comfort and community in the resources and stories featured here. I’m always happy to hear from readers and can be reached at suzette@sevenponds.com.
FEATURED
-
Our Annual Seven Holiday Gifts for Someone Who Is Grieving, 2024 Edition: Gracious gifts that spread love and beauty -
“Making Mobiles” by Karolina Merska: An artist’s manual on how to create beautiful Polish pajaki -
“Hands Up to the Sky” by Michael Franti & Spearhead: A surprisingly upbeat song about acknowledging both loss and the beauty of life
-
Categories
Tag Archives: Loss of a Spouse
“Here Comes Those Tears Again” by Jackson Browne
A haunting and reflective memorial song that touches on the narrator’s struggle with his deep grief over the loss of a lover
When Jackson Browne — best known for his hits like “Doctor My Eyes” and “Running On Empty” — lost his first wife to suicide, he channeled his grief into the hauntingly beautiful “Here Comes Those Tears Again” that was partially … Continue reading
Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without by Natasha Josefowitz
One woman's grief over the loss of her husband is shared in page by page moments
The book, “Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without,“ is visually written to appear like poetry, but it’s not really poetry as we know it. Yet there is indeed something poetic about its approach. More stream of consciousness, with carefully … Continue reading
My Foreign Cities by Elizabeth Scarboro
A woman’s memoir of young love and learning to live life to the fullest in the face of her husband’s impending (yet with an uncertain timeline) death from cystic fibrosis
What if, as a teenager, you fell in love with a peer who was already facing their middle age years as well as dealing with declining health that would lead to eventual death at a relatively young age from a … Continue reading
“Too Soon to Know” by Roy Orbison
A reflective memorial song that touches on the depths of grief for a young wife’s tragic death
Roy Orbison was no stranger to tragedy in the 1960s. As a popular American singer, he recorded his version of the Don Gibson-penned song, “Too Soon to Know,” to cope with his wife Claudette’s sudden death in a motorcycle accident in 1966 … Continue reading
What is Expressive Arts Therapy? An Interview with Adriana Marchione
Adriana Marchione discusses how expressive arts therapy can help people coping with loss and grief
Today, SevenPonds speaks with Adriana Marchione, MA, REAT, RSMT, a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and Registered Somatic Movement Therapist. Currently based in San Francisco, California, she is the founder of a well-established arts and healing practice called Creative Source and … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Adriana Marchione, coping with expected loss, Coping with Grief, Coping With Unexpected Loss, Creative Healing, Creative Therapy, CreativeSourceSF, Expressive Arts Therapy, Loss of a Father, Loss of a Spouse, Poetry, Poetry and healing, Tamalpa Institute, Visual Arts
1 Comment
My Girl by Howard Zieff
"When your dad's an undertaker, your mom's in heaven, and your grandma's got a screw loose... it's good to have a friend who understands you."
After a more-than-twenty-year hiatus, I put on the movie My Girl this week, and I wasn’t prepared for how moved I would be by the end. My memories of the clips I’ve seen throughout my life promised a cheesy film about … Continue reading
