Six Tips For Helping Those Who Grieve
How can you go about helping those who grieve? Megan Devine, grief advocate and author of, It's OK That You're Not...
How can you go about helping those who grieve? Megan Devine, grief advocate and author of, It's OK That You're Not...
Karen Mulder | 1 min read
“Mam, do you need help?” Running late as usual, because I always have a hundred things on my plate, I noticed my...
Karen Mulder | 2 min read
In 1972 Joe Biden was elected to the Senate and a week later his wife and daughter were killed in a car crash. In...
Karen Mulder | 1 min read
We have all known loss. The grief we’ve felt in the midst of our pain has perhaps seemed overwhelming. The most...
Karen Mulder | 1 min read
One afternoon, I pushed the button to replay my phone messages and was shocked to hear a young angry voice say, “Shame on you! How can you call yourself a Christian woman and do what you are doing! You should be ashamed at yourself.” I wondered what I had been doing that earned these angry, slanderous words. As he proceeded, I found out. He said, “You talked my mom into getting a divorce. How could you? I’m not going to allow you to put my dad down! I won’t stand for it.”
Karen Mulder | 3 min read
Acknowledging the abuse was horrible.
Admitting that my grandfather had sexually abused me meant three things: first, he didn’t love me; second, no one in my family cared enough about me to know that I was hurting or to protect me; third, I felt like a piece of litter that no one even bothered to throw in the trash. Realizing that no one really cared about me when I was a child was the most painful part of my healing process.
Karen Mulder | 2 min read
How are we supposed to respond to people’s pain? What are we supposed to say to someone who lost a child? Kendra...
Karen Mulder | 2 min read
There is no deeper sense of abandonment than the feelings provoked by a parent’s suicide. It can be...
Karen Mulder | 1 min read
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