A couple of days ago, I’ve been published on the online magazine called Still Standing Magazine: I have lost… I am lost… I say ‘I lost my child’ or ‘I lost my mother’ but the fact is that really I have lost trust in the world, as I knew it before I became acquainted with […]
I Am An Author
This is my coming out… as an AUTHOR As most of you know I’m in the process of editing the forthcoming book “Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple”. As part of the publication etc I have started a Facebook page under my name, as an author. https://www.facebook.com/NathalieHimmelrich Please share this with any of your […]
Why Men and Women Have Different Ways of Grieving – Intuitive and Instrumental Grieving
Kenneth Doka, who wrote the book “Grieving Beyond Gender”, developed the idea of two patterns of grieving: the intuitive pattern and the instrumental pattern. Intuitive grievers express grief in an affective way, which means they adapt to it by showing emotions. Instrumental grievers experience grief physically, such as in a restlessness or by thinking about […]
What You Need To Know About Grief
This article will cover and explain many of the terms used in relation to grief. Understanding these will help you accept what you or a person close to you is going through in this process. Abbreviated Grief is a short-lived grief response in the way that the grieving process seems shorter because the role of the […]
Grief: Behavioral and Spiritual Reactions
No one is ever prepared to lose a loved one. Whether it was expected or not, it still comes accompanied by shock. Even though we know rationally that death is inescapable we always hope that it won’t or won’t yet happen. Even though grief is an experience that feels like you are going crazy, there […]
Grief: Emotional, Physical and Cognitive Reactions
No one is ever prepared to lose a loved one. Whether it was expected or not, it still comes accompanied by shock. Even though we know rationally that death is inescapable we always hope that it won’t or won’t yet happen.[Tweet ” … and we hope it would not hurt as much as it does… […]
Responding To Grief
There are lots of words written about what NOT to say in response to grief but not enough about HOW to respond to grief. This is my experience about what could help when in grief. It specifically is my experience in relation to the death of my 3-day-old baby and the suicide of my mother, […]
Mother’s Legacy
“You will in time understand the complexity of my time here on earth…” were my mother’s words. Just this morning I had an epiphany in regards to my mother’s choices in life. I was contemplating her ways in which she said things that she wanted us to do differently, her stoic responses and her sometimes […]
Avoiding the Present Experience
It is fairly common to avoid that we experience, specifically if we don’t like what the experience brings with it. Often, dare I say ever, it is the emotional component that is disliked, unaccepted or denied.
Death – Meeting Society’s Taboo
I’m the mother of a dead child. I’m the daughter of a dead mother. All of which happened within the space of less than 5 months. I shock people when I tell them what occurred in the last year. Some literally sit there, eyes and mouth wide open but no sound. Even some good friends […]
