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FORGIVENESS – A BIG One for Many People

May 5, 2025April 9, 2025 by wpadmin

How do you feel about forgiveness? What does forgiveness mean to you? Oprah Winfrey once said, “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that things could have been different …then moving on.” Mark Twain stated, “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet...

“IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES”

February 23, 2025February 6, 2025 by wpadmin

“If Tomorrow Never Comes” is a Garth Brooks song that reflects on many aspects of endings and death. I have heard this song played a few times in the past; on TV, radio and at a funeral. Feelings of sadness, tears...

Caring for Others Can Be a Gift for YOU

May 28, 2024May 5, 2024 by wpadmin

Friends, other family members and people I do not know personally have to take care of others who are ill and or dying. What losses are connected with these scenarios? What strengths come from being supportive of others? What gifts...

Parents Estranged from Adult Children

September 1, 2023July 10, 2023 by wpadmin

Over the years the topic of parents being estranged from their adult children has come up during conversations with clients, friends and family. Recently a friend mentioned a book she came across called “Done with The Crying”...

Helping Someone Else with Their Loss

July 25, 2022July 4, 2022 by wpadmin

Wanting to help someone else with their loss and grief is common. Seeing or knowing someone you care about in emotional pain is difficult. Watching the prolonged effects of grief on an individual may magnify the wanting to help. What...

RELATIONSHIPS, CHANGE and CHOICES

November 16, 2021November 17, 2021 by wpadmin

In life numerous types of relationships are created with family, friends, co-workers, neighbours and more. The cultivated relationships seem to have a way of changing as life evolves and sometimes in unanticipated ways. Relationships ending or changing can...

Relationship Choices and Change…I Did Not Want!

April 7, 2021February 25, 2021 by wpadmin

Stop and think about this for a moment; something drastic happens that causes a relationship to end and it was not your choice.

Initially grief symptoms can set in with all their vengeance, feeling as...

My Friend is Dying

March 24, 2021February 25, 2021 by wpadmin

I was told my friend had cancer and was given approximately 2 months to live. Well, 2 months is just a number and no one can say for sure how long someone will live. I reacted with shock,...

10 Questions to help your clients with

September 8, 2020September 17, 2020 by wpadmin

10 Questions to help your clients with;

Why do I keep picking the same kind of partners?

I had someone ask this of me during a counselling session; for that matter I...

Today is Valentine’s Day, do you care?

February 15, 2020February 12, 2021 by wpadmin

For some people this is a special day and for others it may be a day of who cares about Valentine’s Day. After the loss of someone you care deeply about, does Valentine’s Day have the same meaning? Hmmm, what does Valentine’s...

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