New Wellness Story

It’s Never Too Late to Create Your New Story of Wellness

Wellness Defined

Wellness integrates mind, body and spirit with a balanced flow of energy. It is an ongoing process of choices that become the stories of our lives. Wellness is a choice: a lifestyle that integrates mind, body, and spirit. The experience of wellness includes self-acceptance, interconnectedness, meaning, and purpose to consciously live well.

The Power of Story

We learn through stories. Stories are how we understand and how we remember. A story is a system for holding together facts. A story makes things make sense. Defense lawyers know this. Little kids standing next to broken vases know this. Read more...

Can Grief Cause Brain Fog?

You know that feeling that you’re walking around in a fog, when the world seems distant and you’re just not part of it? Or when you are trying to remember exactly why you walked into a room while you just stand there looking around? That feeling is often called “brain fog” and sometimes it is so bad it can seem like you’re going crazy. Read more...

Does Time Really Heal ALL Wounds?

This common saying may be true for scraped knees and paper cuts, but not for broken hearts. Yes, it does take time to recover from emotional pain, but time alone is not enough. The following article is a great example of why time just isn’t enough.

The FLAW in T.H.A.W.

Most dangerous of the incorrect ideas that keep grievers stuck.

by Russell Friedman, Grief Recovery Institute

T.H.A.W. are the letters I doodled last week while talking on the phone with a well-intentioned, but misguided mental health professional. She was intoning the old, but always false idea that Time Heals All Wounds. Read more...

Stages of Grief?

Many years ago Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote a book entitled On Death and Dying. The book identified five stages that a dying person goes through when they are told that they have a terminal illness. Those stages are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. For many years, in the absence of any other helpful material, well-meaning people incorrectly assigned those same stages to the grief that follows a death or loss. Although a griever might experience some or all of those feeling stages, it is not a correct or helpful basis for dealing with the conflicting feelings caused by loss. Read more...

‘Tis the Season to be Lonely

Are the Holidays a Difficult Time for You?

Many people have lost loved ones, relationships, or health throughout the year. Often the first holiday season that comes along without the loved one, or without the ability to do the things you usually enjoy, creates a deeper sense of loss than other days. Sometimes we want to just get this season over with. We may even feel worse when we see other people having a good time when we just can’t. The following article points out that for grievers it’s normal to want to skip the holiday season. Read more...

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Our Commitment To Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Read more...