5 Tips for Making Conversations about Death Better (i.e. less scary for you and more comforting for the griever)

5 Tips for Making Conversations about Death Better(i.e. less scary for you and more comforting for the griever)Do you completely freeze when someone casually says, as you sit

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4 Insider Tips About This Insanely Stupid Phrase – “Call me if you need anything”

You know what's crazy? People who say to someone in grief, “Call me if you need anything.”Why so crazy?Because there's almost ZERO chance we’re going to call.Why? Lots

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An Eye-Opening Lesson from My Dog about Obnoxious Independence

It all started when my dog chewed a golf-ball size hole in the living room rug. It's hard to believe this little guy could do something so dastardly

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Hard Things Are Inevitable, Doing Them Alone is Optional

Hard Things Are Inevitable So Get Comfortable Saying "I Need Help"Somehow I missed the fact that my daughter had turned YELLOW.She'd been deathly pale (from what we thought

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Does your “To Do” List Send You into a Panic? Here’s How You Can Change That

Last week I stayed up late too many nights. I should've caught up on my sleep over the weekend but there was too much to do and for

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Stop Feeling Guilty For Not Predicting Or Preventing Your Child’s Death

The day my son died, I fed him his early morning feeding at 5:30am and he went back to sleep. I was transitioning back to full-time at work

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Take These 6 Steps to Forgive Even the Worst Offenses and Find Peace

“Oh no you won’t,” he said. I was driving past the child support office muttering to myself, “I’m going to go in there and get them to start

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Are You Missing an Opportunity to Help Your Teen with Loss?

“He’s gotten an attitude lately. He’s talking back and acting surly every time I ask him to do anything. His favorite word is ‘Well ...’ and he says

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We Can Agree to Disagree

Since the presidential election there has been a firestorm of articles, social media posts, and heated comments and replies back and forth from extremely unhappy voters and those

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We Can Agree On Integrity

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. (Confucius) In today’s society, many words that once had positive connotations now have negative connotations …

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