Dealing With My Grief

Sometimes I think we try to protect children too much from mental any psychological pain. I think loosing at thing like sports may ultimately help with dealing with the loss of a loved one.

This week's call to action: Try to incorporate your loved on into you holiday season.

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This has been one of the nastiest Presidential campaign season on record.

Voters like grievers have choices.

This week's call to action: Choose to do something to confront your grief.

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If you have ever used Microsoft Windows or almost any application within Windows, you'll find a few similarities:

• There are several ways to accomplish the same task
• Sometimes things go awry when we are trying to move forward and accomplish certain goals

How can I determine which way is best for me to confront my grief and who do I pivot when I get stuck and can't seem to move forward.

This weeks call to action: Evaluate the different methods you have at your disposal to help you deal with grief, especially when you seem to be stuck in a place that doesn't allow you to continue your healing process.

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After lying in bed all weekend and watching Netflix, I have realized that I've used my father's death as the reason I haven't been able to achieve certain things in life or the reason why I've had to deal with certain things alone in my life.

I refuse to use his death as an excuse any longer. I can get through life's challenges in spite of the fact he is no longer here.

This weeks call to action: don't let grief be an excuse for you you can't seem to get through life's challenges.

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This week's episode is a little shorter as I am dealing with a cold and I'm not feeling well.

This week I look back a t two Disney films; Bambi and the Lion King and how I used just focus on death and not the the entire story of lifed death and the rebirth that the main characthers in the movie had to face.

I also realizes that not every Disney film deals with these themes, and for non-grievers, that might be a Disney movie whose theme describes Your life story up to this point in your life.

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This episode is inspired by a piece of feedback I received from a listener in response to last week's call to action to tell me something positive as a result of your grief.

Thanks so much for the kind words about the podcast it appreciated...

The listener stated that they have had a hard time getting support from their friends during the recent loss of 2 individuals in their life.

This week I tackle the subject of why friends may "disappear" during the grieving process. Maybe they don't know how to support us or maybe they don't know how long we'll need support.

This weeks call to action: Be a better friend... or simply be a friend.

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This episode is dedicated to the memory of Emmett Till.

I recently had the opportunity to visit the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. It is an amazing museum that you must see if you ever visit the area. You'll need tickets to get in, but they are free.

• Here is the link to order timed passes: https://nmaahc.si.edu/visit/passes

Emmett Till was a 14 year old African-American boy who was killed for whistling at a white woman in a store in Money, Mississippi in August of 1955. He qwould be lynched fof this by her susband and his half-brother.

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His mother found the courage to display his badly disfigured body during his funeral to show the world what racism had done to her son. This act led to the modern Civil Rights movement.

Mamie Till-Mobley's grief was the spark plug that forced America to deal with racism head-on.

I take a look at my own life and try to figuer out if there is anything positive that has come from my own grief.

This weeks call to action: Look back at your ow grief and determine if there is Something positive that you can take away from it.

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When I thing about the phrase, "That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger", I can apply this to my life... literally!

After seeing my father's lifeless body in the store owned by my parents after his death, and wondering if things might be different if my mother and I would have stayed at the store for an additional 30-45 minutes, I use this as a source of strength in my life. Nothing will every be as bad as it was when he died. My mother had to come up with a Plan B.

I have learned to face new challenges and Plans B and sometimes C head on using my grief.

This weeks call to action:

My father died without a will. This made life harder for my mother necessary. See a lawyer, and prepare a will. If you can afford to do so, purchase life insurance so the ones you leave behind won't have to initially worry about finances when you're gone.

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Once my father died I lived in fear believing the men responsible for his death eventually would come for me. I let this fear permeate other aspects of my life until I learned to confront it and find ways to embrace it and move on.

This week's call to action: Link logically, sometimes emotions can cloud our judgement. Think things through before making decisions.

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As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the television show Star Trek, I am reminded that sometimes thinking like a half Vulcan, half Human is not necessarily a bad thing.

This week's call to action: Link logically, sometimes emotions can cloud our judgement. Think things through before making decisions.

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