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Tag Archives: Loss
The Pitfalls of Choosing Hospice Care
Why a nonprofit hospice may be a more sensible option when choosing end-of-life palliative care
What if you’ve cared for terminally ill loved ones until your resources have been exhausted? You are exhausted too, having taken on a role of a nurse while grieving over the impending loss. Finally a decision is reached to find … Continue reading
Connecting to Grief Past and Present
Andrea Bayer, the curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells the story of her loss through great works of art
If you are an artist, you may express your grief through art, but what if you are a curator of one of the most renowned museums in the country? Andrea Bayer, the curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Andrea Bayer, Art, Bereavement, Death, Grief, Loss, loss of parents, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mourning, New York City, past and present
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“The Truth About Pretty Girls” by Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter explores how death has the power to reshape our lives
“The Truth About Pretty Girls” is a salty and bitter story about how anger and grief can rule over the heart, even decades after someone has passed. Slaughter’s story comes to us as an audiobook exclusive in her collection, The … Continue reading
Artist Dario Robleto: Heaven is Being a Memory to Others
Contemporary Artist Dario Robleto explores the relationship between death and memory
The 2008 Frye Art Museum exhibit, Heaven is Being a Memory to Others, provided a space for artists to present pieces about death, life and memory in conversation – particularly artists like Dario Robleto. The show was described as having … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Contemporary Art, Creatvity, Dario Robleto, Death, Death and art, Emma Frye, Frye Art Museum, Grieving, Life and Death, Loss, Memory, memory and loss, Mourning, Patsy Cline
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Flower Power: Oils for Loss and the Stages of Grief
Oils to aid the stages of grief both during and after a memorial
5 Tips to Heal from a Loss with Floral Oils: Overlooking the effects a loss can have on our emotional and physical well-being is not an uncommon scenario. But in the middle of the flurry that is prepping for a … Continue reading
Posted in Practical Tips
Tagged Aromatherapy, Chamomile, Cinnamon, Death, Essential oil, Essential Oils, Flower, Flower Oils, Flower Power, Geranium, Grief, Grieving, Health, Heart, Lavender, Lavender oil, Loss, Loss of a Loved One, Oil therapy, Rose, Stages of Grief
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Elizabethtown by Cameron Crowe
“Deep, beautiful, meloncholy of everything that happened” Claire Colburn
Films are exits from reality. They allow you to escape into your own fantasy—but they can offer more than just that. Films are a way of broadening our perspectives and of learning things that we have yet to experience. … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Cameron Crowe, Cremation, Elizabethtown, end-of-life, Grieving, Grieving Guidance, Humor, Kirsten Dunst, Loss, Loss of Father, Orlando Bloom
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