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A Different Grief: Coping with Pet Loss
Are You Facing The Loss Of A Beloved Pet?
Explore both the myths and the realities surrounding the experience of pet loss, including why it hurts so much and how it differs from other losses in this Self-Healing Expressions email course.




The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey
The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey.
The bereaved are guided and supported through the grief process in this grief-healing e-course.




Holiday Help: A Guide for Hope and Healing




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Words of comfort for sympathy


Grief and the Holidays


The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey
The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey

Understand the nature of grief and its potential impact on all aspects of your life: physical, financial, emotional, social and spiritual. Learn how to move through grief actively and make the process of mourning a healing one. Find support and guidance in dealing with the many facets of grief.


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Dear Marty ~ How Do We Deal with the Empty Chair at the Holidays?
Q & A by Bereavement Counselor Marty Tousley

Question: I just recently lost my mother after her two-year battle with breast cancer. I feel like a piece of me died right along with her. I was always close to my mother, and she was so close with my children. I don't know how to explain the hurt I feel inside. The weather is starting to change here by getting colder, which always brings the holidays - which brings me to the question: How do we deal with the empty chair at the holidays? My mother always made a big deal out of the holidays, which I have practiced with my children. I am trying to carry on the traditions and also do the things she used to do, maybe trying to feel closer to her or at least make her proud of me. My mother was an amazing person and touched a lot of hearts. Everyone tells me I am a spitting image of her and I am just like her, and I hope so. I want to be just like my mother. I have my good days and my bad days...

Answer: My dear friend, please accept my heartfelt condolences at the loss of your dear mother, and know that I am thinking of you at this sad and difficult time.

I am struck by your poignant question, "How do we deal with the empty chair at the holidays?" It may interest you to know that many wonderful and helpful articles have been written to help those who are grieving get through the holidays, and your question gives me an opportunity to highlight some of them here. Just click on any of these links below

Resources ~ Grief and the Holidays

Christmas in Heaven ~ Online memorial for our heavenly loved ones

Including Your Absent Loved One in Family Celebrations by Marty Tousley

Creating Rituals during the Holidays by Gail Mitchell

Even This Santa Gives Thanks by Nan Zastrow

Getting through the Holidays by Marty Tousley

Gifts, Garlands and Grief by Sandy Goodman

Helping Ourselves through the Holidays ~ Hospice Net

Holidays from the Heart by Carol Staudacher

Surviving the Holidays by Sandy Lipkus



Also, many hospices offer special workshops in the months of November and December to help survivors get through the holiday season. The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization maintains a database of hospices for each state in the United States. To search for a hospice in your own community, click Find a Hospice Program

Wishing you peace and healing,
Marty Tousley, Bereavement Counselor



Marty Tousley is the creator and instructor of these popular online grief courses. Click link to learn more about Marty and her online grief class.
The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey
A Different Grief: Coping with Pet Loss
A Different Grief: Helping You and Your Children with Pet Loss





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