Crisis Support

The most amazing thing happens when a Soul crosses from here to the other side. The only thing you need do when this happens before you had a chance to be physically present for the earthly good bye is to…
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Most of us (89% according to this poll) want to make the end-of-life decision for ourselves. Ultimately, the right to die with dignity – without horrible, chronic pain or personal degradation – should come down to the individual. In a…
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Friday, October the 13th, will forever be etched in my grieving heart. My husband had just had surgery on his left foot, and I was home on holidays to nurse him back to health. The dreaded phone call came; it…
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A person who lives in constant pain often experiences thoughts of suicide. They don’t necessarily want to end their lives, but the continuous, unrelenting pain that they have to endure every day and night makes them think these terrible thoughts….
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Goodbye, “an act of parting”, a “farewell” from Dictionary.com. What the dictionary won’t tell you is why we need goodbyes. Because we do, we need to be able to say, so long, be safe, go on, God bless, or sometimes,…
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Mention chronic pain to most people and they will not have any idea of what that term actually means in real life. The majority of people are blessed to live in relatively good health and may experience an occasional headache…
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To help us understand why bereavement counseling benefits those who are grieving, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. wrote the book On Death and Dying. She explains the need for bereavement counseling comes from the fact that today, more people live to old…
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Bereavement counseling with a properly trained, experienced and conscientious helper is unlikely to be harmful, but it’s not always necessary. Grief is not an illness; it’s a wound. A good grief counselor should be able to recognize the difference between…
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I’ve been suffering from a consistent low-to-moderate level pain for about five years, ever since my multiple sclerosis condition escalated to the secondary progressive phase. On a scale of one to 10, I’d say my pain is from a three-to-five…
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Death seems so final and life seems so unfinished. When a loved one dies we often wish we had more time, or we had said the things we felt. We wish for the luxury of a proper goodbye. We feel…
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Bereavement: Picking up the Pieces At one point and time, we all experience loss of a loved one and the period of grieving that follows. Loss and grief is different for different reasons and under different circumstances. The pain touches…
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What to do when someone dies and there was no time for goodbyes. My father died unexpectedly on April fool’s day 15 years ago. He was walking from the parking lot, in the morning, into his job. We were told…
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Mourning a death of a spouse, close family friend, relationship, pet or even the death of a career can be totally devastating. Death signals finality. Those left behind tend to feel cut-off from everyone and everything; they feel alone and…
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I wanted to kill myself. I kept thinking it was an understandable option to everything else that was happening in life. I thought it might teach someone a lesson, hopefully make them see life a little differently. That was just…
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Contact with JacquieAfter Death Communication There is no definitive how-to on this topic. But following the death of my daughter, Jacquie, on September 3, 2001, I read books on the afterlife and contacting the deceased, sought mediums, attended every denomination…
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The words I never wanted to hear came crashing down upon me on a bleak September morning in 1992. I drove all night from Nashville to Cincinnati after receiving a call that my grandmother was sick. My grandmother had always…
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The milestones of firsts that a mother marks throughout her child’s life are times to be remembered with love and happiness. They are a way to document the passage of a child into adulthood. They are a way to celebrate…
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The pain started from my head, all the way down to my lower back. I had so much tension and pain that I would clinch my teeth which caused shooting pains in my jaw and my neck into my shoulders….
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To suffer a miscarriage is to suffer a very common fate, and yet a mysterious one. It is mysterious partly in the purely medical sense that the particular reasons why a given pregnancy self-terminates are usually unknown. But more than…
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Although death is common enough occurrence, few people know how to deal with those who are going through the grieving process, often avoiding them. Isolation is real problem for grieving people. If you are to attempt to help somebody through…
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If you really want to understand the constant pain and thoughts of suicide it requires a different mind set than the everyday person has. The thoughts that surround suicide are not ones that typically run through everyone’s daily thoughts. There…
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Being the Moderator on a Grief Discussion Board, has required me to deal with death on a daily basis. One of the issues that frequently comes up is the information that women need to know before the death of a…
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Does anybody really know what constant pain is? I’m sure there are some out there with illnesses that are incurable, and others who have suffered through illnesses and survived. Well, suffering form depression, anxiety, and panic attacks is not exactly…
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The only way to do this is slowly and often painfully, while holding fast to a glimmer of hope for the future. There is no point in ignoring the grief, or putting on a facade of bravery, because later, it…
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Three months or so prior to my dad’s surgery he made trips across the country to visit many of his dear friends he had not seen in a while. He did not share the purpose of his visit with any…
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There is never a time when it’s easy to lose a loved one. This part of life leaves our world with a big hole in it where the person used to fit. This empty place will never be filled with…
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Mourning is a healthy release for when we lose somebody dear, close and important to our lives. We can also mourn over losing a friendship, a job, or a relationship. Whatever the case may be, it helps to bring acceptance…
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Not only do dying people have the right, they should be encouraged to tell their loved ones what they want. When my father died he had told us exactly what he wanted. It made it so much easier when he…
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WHEN TRAUMA BECOMES PUBLIC: THE DAMAGING EFFECTS OF MEDIA EXPOSURE Watching today’s television news reports, or reading the daily newspaper, it is clear that the media has an affinity for traumatic events. While reporting is intended to be balanced, a…
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How deeply saddening this question is. Suicide is a last resort for many whose lives are meaningless or full of pain. When someone is hurting, it seems utterly callous to label them as cowardly. It must be acknowledged that there…
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