ByRobyn Harris
In this section I will explore some of the ways that people can be supported through their grief. GPs have traditionally often prescribed medication such as antidepressants though they are now more aware of the benefits of providing the person with the opportunity to talk to someone who understands. They might therefore prescribe a course…
ByGiora Carmi
There is a lot of habitual readiness to continue living with pain, when your pain has been with you for years. There is even fear. How can I live without pain? What will my life be like? What was the protection that the pain gave me that now I will be without? There are many…
ByJulia Chi
I am having another day of solitude, I have them day after day now… It is like a whole new chapter of a book…. Or a new part of some sort of trilogy, or a new scene in a great long never ending book… Our lives; a never ending book, split up into pages and…
ByRobyn Harris
In this section I will explore each stage of Dr Kübler-Ross’s ‘Grief Cycle’ in a little more depth. Denial – Denial is a conscious or unconscious refusal to accept facts, information, reality, etc., relating to the situation concerned. It’s a defence mechanism and perfectly natural. Some people can become locked in this stage when dealing with…
ByGiora Carmi
I am going through changes and for some time I felt as if I was floating in space in some way, not feeling like doing anything, because it was not clear to me why to act at all. A whole old paradigm, so to speak, became obsolete and the new paradigm is unfolding still. I…
ByRobyn Harris
In this section I will look at how the work of Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross changed how we look at the grieving process. Dr Kübler-Ross, who pioneered methods in the support and counselling of personal trauma, grief and grieving, proposed a model of the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance). This is actually…
BySue Ellam
I have been a tarot reader for 23 years now, and in that time I have had the honour of being privy to thousands of people’s hopes, dreams and deepest secrets. Many of my clients come to me for confirmation of what they already know, or they are at a crossroads and are stuck as…
ByMichelle Adam
I am sitting in the hot tub outside my home in Berkeley, California, soaking in the delicious water that calms my body’s pain. I look up at the sky, stars pushing through the clouds and past city lights that obscure a few from my view. “You are a bloodless sky. You love without wanting,” I…
ByGiora Carmi
The red sun is painting the foliage at dusk Intensifying play reality The green that overgrows In the village of my youth Is the shadow Of the villagers’ lives Look! Look! The truck that you hear Struggling up the little hill Will soon appear Among the burning casuarinas. You may ask yourself: What does…
ByRobyn Harris
In this section I will explore the feelings that we can experience following the loss of a person or thing that is close to us. It often results in a sense of grief or bereavement. This is a very natural response when something to which we are attached, disappears from our lives. We often associate…
ByGiora Carmi
There is no picture with this entry. You are invited to imagine it for yourself. It is night. No sleep, as the pain makes me move constantly. Around 4 I start paying attention to the feeling of “I”. I have found that this is one of the things that sometimes helps reducing or eliminating the…
ByGiora Carmi
Caterpillars crawling on top of each other Going in the same direction In a hurry As much as caterpillars can be in a hurry We don’t know where they are going And we don’t know Who will appear when they are gone We could know everything If we zoomed out and left the game Of…