I was listening to a podcast on Grief Refuge where Colin Ellis was being interviewed and interestingly, she was talking about dog owners and dog parents. Initially, I thought that it couldn’t be so different, but as she explained further, I got to understand really what it meant to be a pet parent and I […]
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What makes a person afraid when a loved one dies? I have pondered over this question for years and I would love to get the chance to research further on it. According to Schwiebert in his article fear and grief, “Grief looks backwards, and fear looks forward”. But both are connected because in looking back
Anyone who takes a course on grief must come across Kubler Ross’s stages of grief. And though that theory has been disputed in so many ways, I believe the dispute can only remain within the confines of the prescribed occurrence of the stages. The fact is that a person would experience these emotions or state
And the last Friday of the month of May is here. Time flies by so quickly, it feels like there is something chasing the months, but then the clock still works the same way it has always done, which means the world has become a beehive of activities and while we struggle to wade through
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I bought an awesome book ‘Authentic love’ by Brennan Mullaney and this is what he had to say in one of his chapters. “All emotional and mental disorders except the organic, are wounds of the psychospiritual heart, symptomatic expressions of love damaged, love rejected, betrayed, perverted, twisted, lost or never received.” When we hear of
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I read a result from a Google search that said, women are more drawn to men who exhibit traits of the dark tetrad. I would have laughed this off, but then I realised, it’s really plausible, most people who fall in the tetrad category also exude strength, ruggedness, control, fearlessness. These are great specs for
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According to Fitzpatrick We often think of grief as something we experience only when a loved one dies. But when you loose something that you are attached too, something really precious, your heart gets crushed and you suffer pain and symptoms that are only relatable to grief. The loss around Infertility centres around letting go
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It is said that in every theory ever written about man’s personality , the most profound question has been ‘where is the person?’. Monte would further break this question in to several others, a few of which are: Is the person hidden within unobservable private thoughts? Is the person displayed in observable behaviour? Is the
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There is something interesting about the unconscious ; it is not only a place where contents or issues that have lost intensity go to lie. Jung would argue that the unconscious has a more complex role. It performs retrospective and prospective functions; it is able to look backwards into the past , look forward into
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“If it is a shallow relationship, when it falls apart, the pain will be slight. And the joy that relationship brings each day will also be slight. It is precisely because one can gain the courage to enter into deeper relationships by having confidence in others that the joy of one’s interpersonal relations can grow,
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