The day that changed your life forever, started out like every other day. How would you know it was the beginning of the end? How do you make sense of a day that sent your life spinning out of control? A regular day became the turning point to the rest of your life.
Losing a Loved One changes your life, but when it happens on your birthday it can alter your future. This can make the approach of the date very difficult. Loss can transform your celebration of life into a mark of mourning. The reality is you have the choice.
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Coming home to an empty home is never fun. When you are coming home to a house that someone else may never get the chance to come back home to can be devastating. Facing the thought of looking at where someone used to be, seeing their things still sitting, right where they left them. Everything in it’s place, as if they will be right back, it’s heartbreaking.
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There are milestones in your life that change how you view the world. Some events change both the present and the future, Loss is one of them. The loss of your parents is one of the most devastating experiences of all, regardless of your age.
No matter how close your relationship was, losing a parent is a life-changing event. It changes how you view the world. You will also feel differently towards almost every aspect in life. I noticed these for myself.
We all love a great rerun, where we are familiar with the people, know what will happen and when to react… But why do we relive parts of our lives over again?Are we trying to fix it?
Our minds conjure up old memories or portions of our lives that we have a conflict with. These reruns or “flash back” represent an internal interpretation of an event. Through the windows of our imaginations, we mentally tweak memory in an attempt to alter the event creating a more desirable outcome.
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Almost everyone has experienced the emotion of grieving. But what happens when the active grieving becomes a state of being?
In most cases, grieving is marked in five common stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. No one can say how long it will take to go through any of these stages when you lose a loved one. There is also no way to tell how each stage will affect each person.
There is a common transformation that occurs during the grieving process that is often missed. Many people get stuck in one of the stages of grieving and it becomes a state of being. A state of being can also become a mindset or even a way of life.
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Time is like grains of sand falling through an hourglass. However you count the time, we each have a limited amount of time here on earth, which can be measured in many different ways – from minutes to memories, experiences and opportunities…
For those who measure life in terms of passages of time, there is an inclination to measure by years while growing older, and then in minutes when sensing time is running out.
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When a Loved One is sick or aging, we often do our best to avoid the subject. We do even more to avoid the topic of death. But what can you do if a Loved One knows it’s their time, even if you don’t?
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Every day we are surrounded with emotions, both our own and other people’s. The secret is learning to deal with the true emotion, the emotion under the one we are witnessing. Learning to recognize the veils of emotion that protect our true feelings can be very difficult.
Have you ever stopped to think about the things you tell yourself every day? Do you pay attention to your inner dialogue?
You have about 60,000 thoughts in a day. Are you telling yourself the right stuff? Are you talking to yourself like a friend?
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