Big Boys DO cry!!! But who is listening? Benjamin Disraeli’s quip, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics," has often been proven true in today’s media, but here are a few hard numbers that tell it like it is: Between 1997 and 2015, more than 75% of all 4,315 suicides in... Continue Reading →
Doctor, psychologist, therapist, counsellor . . . I am NONE of these
I suppose, as a Grief Recovery specialist, if I needed to have a professional label, it would be “Educator”. Why? Because I teach people to move beyond the pain of grief and complete their loss. People ask, “Is there REALLY such a thing as grief recovery? “My constant reply is, “Grief recovery is not only... Continue Reading →
Big boys don’t cry . . . oh, really?
Being told to “man up”, “be strong”, “hide your feelings”, and all the other so-called appeals to virility are just variations on one of the six myths of grief. Let’s cut to the chase here, guys: grief is a normal and natural response to loss – and by the way, there are more than forty... Continue Reading →