Category Living with Grief

Heartache is a Kind of Grief

When you experience the heartache of rejection, a divorce or breakup, you are experiencing grief.

Single mom with her son and daughter by her side

How to Live a Life That Works

I’ve found that life is filled with one lesson after another. And like most lessons they aren’t easy.

Life After Divorce

Divorce is often costly, and can be devastating for all parties involved – partners, children, parents, and grandparents.

What is Acceptance, 7 Steps to Get Past Divorce

What does that mean exactly? After much thought this is the conclusion I’ve come to- Acceptance is the willingness to embrace what is.

Living with Grief

Living with Grief, a chapter in Living Learning Loving I’m not good with grief. I’ve had plenty of practice, but I don’t seem to get better at it. It may be that I don’t like change any more than the next person or it may be that I really, truly hate saying “Goodbye.” My brother-in-law, Firmin […]

Grief Interrupts Life

Grief is the Uninvited Guest that Interrupts our Life There are many circumstances that bring grief into our lives. As common as it is for many, including me, grief hits hard and is often more difficult to handle than we expect it to be. I recently lost my dear brother-in-law and though he had lived […]

Grief as Part of Life

Grief Comes-Uninvited Taken from the book – “We all resist change, and death or divorce is the ultimate in change. Grieving a loss of any sort takes time. It cannot be rushed.” Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She has experienced the potholes, pests, and perils of being the single […]