Personal Experiences & Essays

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• NEW! Still Born and Still Here, by Diana Gardner-Williams
• Anniversary, by Lynn L. Shattuck
• Extraordinary Novels by Extraordinary Women: The Ongoing Legacy of Austen and Eliot, by Melanie Shelton
• Death, Grief, Mourning and Bereavement, by Cheryline Lawson
• Coping With Multiple Losses: A Mother's Story, by Cheryline Lawson
• Talking About the Loss of a Loved One, by Cheryline Lawson
• Happy 2007, by Laura Slap-Shelton, Psy.D.
• Thanksgiving Thoughts: Thankfulness in Times of Trouble, by Rose DesRochers
• Everyone is Worth Remembering, by John A. Velke III
• A Year Later: A personal story of loss, grief and shining on, by Andrea DeLesDernier
• Writing and Grief: A Shift from Self to Other, by John Allen

• Listen to: A Year to Live, A Year to Die, by
  Mary Beth Kirchner of National Public Radio,
  A Moving Documentation of Love and Loss
  At age 48, Stewart Selman was told he had a malignant brain tumor. He knew that he would have only approximately a year to live and contacted Kirchner of NPR to propose that he keep an audio diary to leave as a legacy for his wife and two children and which may be helpful for other families. His wife, Rebecca Peterson, reported that she wasn’t ready to release the diary until recently, three years after his death. She has written an essay on her experience which is also included in this remarkable and generous sharing of their last year together. To hear the remarkable audio diaries and read more about Rebecca Peterson’s experiences and thoughts click here.
• When a Child Dies, by Rose DesRochers
• We'll Meet Again Some Day, by Rose DesRochers
• My Basic Formula for Helping a Friend in Grief, by Brant
• Letter to a Friend, by Margaret Brownley
• Chipping Away, by Margaret Brownley
• Finding the Magic..., by Sandy Goodman
• One Person's Journey through Grief, by Jan Jacoby
• War Widow Confronts Legacy of Loss and Reconciliation, Reprinted with permission of Pauline Laurent
• That Don't Look Like Grandma, by Sandy Goodman
• Seasons of Grief, by Sandy Goodman
• In Memoriam: GriefandRenewal.Com Remembers the Brave Astronauts of the Columbia Space Challenger, by Laura Slap-Shelton, Psy.D.
• Doing the Dance: A Mother Reports on the Loss of Safety, Freedom, and Life in the Wake of the Sniper, by Katy Gerhard, MSW, LGSW
• Grief: The Essence of What it Means to be Human, by Alexandra Whitney
• Writing Through Grief, by Anne McCurry
• Do You Have a "Depressed" Dad?, by Kanchana Balasubramanian, June 18, 2002
• The Beginning Experience: A Weekend Retreat for the Widowed and Divorced, by Ted S.
• "The Making of Wandering Still".  A video Exploring the Dreams of the Bereaved, by Kate Pourshariarti

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