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self-help-grief

Dealing with Grief

Our self-help-grief pages (for dealing with grief) offer grace - that's what I call the space created when you feel safe enough to be who you are - to feel ALL your feelings: deep acceptance.

There are no words to heal your pain - there is nothing that could "fix" how you feel - and so we are offering the only thing we can offer:

Our hearts. The words and art below are offered as a virtual hand to hold - our hearts reaching out to yours in grace.

Grief is a big word. It encompasses many things: from loss of a job, through loss of innocence, to loss of the life of a dear one.

Please join me at Solace Temple, the wonderful community that Heather Blakey set up to provide a safe place to grieve.

We look forward to hearing your comments. We're planning many additions to the grief pages, please use our contact form to tell us if there is an aspect of self-help-grief that you want to see covered. And, as always, please send us any offering or article that you would like to share with the Square-Peg community.

Articles and Offerings


In "ALLOW Yourself to Grieve" (honoring your personal grief journey), Karen talks about the most important principle of self-care during grief.

The grief poem "Diamonds" came out of my thoughts about what I had wanted or needed when I was grieving - and what I could offer to others in their grief.

We have 2 self-help-grief articles written by therapist and writer, Dr. Patricia Devine. In these articles she shares personal experiences and insights from her own life.

"Fears Impacting on Decisions": Dr. Patti reflects on the birth of a stillborn son.

"Acceptance: A Life Long Journey": she observes many of the emotions we feel during any kind of loss - and she encourages us to trust our own experiences of grief.

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“Lesser” Losses Require Grieving, Too

by Lorraine Pettit

They can happen in a split second (a fall that breaks an arm) or develop over a long time (a cancerous tumor). They can cause minor inconvenience (a broken purse strap) or create major change in the rest of our lives (the death of a spouse). Most times they cause sadness (losing a loved one), but they can even be hoped-for events (moving to a dream house). They are all considered losses and we react to each of them in the same way—with grief.

Most of the time when we think of grief, we think of someone we love dying. That is, indeed, the worst loss we could ever experience. But we encounter many other losses throughout our lives, some seemingly so minor as not even to justify the word “loss”. Each of these, it has been found, triggers the exact same grief process.

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