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๐ˆ๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐š ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐’๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง: ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ˆ ๐‚๐š๐ง ๐‹๐ž๐ญ ๐†๐จ ๐Ž๐Ÿ?

โ€œ๐‘ญ๐’๐’“ ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’”๐’†๐’‚๐’”๐’๐’, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’•๐’Š๐’Ž๐’† ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’•๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐’–๐’๐’…๐’†๐’“ ๐’‰๐’†๐’‚๐’—๐’†๐’ โ€ฆ ๐’‚ ๐’•๐’Š๐’Ž๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’Œ๐’†๐’†๐’‘ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’•๐’Š๐’Ž๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’“๐’๐’˜ ๐’‚๐’˜๐’‚๐’š” ๐‘ฌ๐’„๐’„๐’๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’‚๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’” ๐Ÿฏ:(๐Ÿญ-๐Ÿด) I hadย a great hike last week with Cali, one of our three Golden Retrievers, celebrating all the beauty of the new autumn season now upon us. And, as …

Grieving Job Loss: You Can’t Heal What You Don’t Feel

“๐‘ฏ๐’๐’๐’๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’•๐’˜๐’†๐’†๐’ ๐’๐’ ๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’š๐’†๐’•. ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’๐’˜๐’” ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’•๐’ ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’†๐’ˆ๐’“๐’‚๐’•๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’‰๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’†๐’… ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’š๐’๐’–, ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’š๐’๐’–โ€™๐’—๐’† ๐’†๐’™๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’„๐’†๐’…, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’“๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’†. ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’Š๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’„๐’†, ๐’‘๐’๐’”๐’”๐’Š๐’ƒ๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’๐’‘๐’‘๐’๐’“๐’•๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’๐’“๐’.” ๐‘ต๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’š ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’—๐’Š๐’, ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’‡๐’–๐’ ๐‘ฌ๐’™๐’Š๐’• Job loss can often trigger a range of emotions …

๐ˆ ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ, ๐ˆ ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ โ€“ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‰๐จ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ ๐‰๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐ฒ

โ€œ๐˜ฟ๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™™๐™จ ๐™– ๐™ก๐™ž๐™›๐™š, ๐™—๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™™๐™ค๐™š๐™จ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™– ๐™ง๐™š๐™ก๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™๐™ž๐™ฅ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ช๐™œ๐™œ๐™ก๐™š๐™จ ๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™ช๐™ง๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™ค๐™ง๐™จ ๐™ข๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ง๐™™๐™จ ๐™จ๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™ง๐™š๐™จ๐™ค๐™ก๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™›๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™.โ€ ๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ซ๐™ž๐™š โ€œ๐™„ ๐™‰๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™Ž๐™–๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ˆ๐™ฎ ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™งโ€(๐Ÿญ๐Ÿต๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฌ) As a Bereavement Counselor and Grief Coach, I often witness how quotations from Scripture, selected prayers, beautiful music, clips from …

Grieving Dad on Father’s Day 2024

“๐‘ฐ ๐’•๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐’‰๐’†’๐’… ๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’‡๐’๐’“๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“. ๐‘ฏ๐’† ๐’”๐’†๐’†๐’Ž๐’†๐’… ๐’”๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’Š๐’ˆ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’๐’๐’ˆ. ๐‘ฉ๐’–๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’•๐’†๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’š๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’” ๐’“๐’๐’๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’‚ ๐’‡๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’”๐’๐’. ๐‘ฐ ๐’๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“ ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’‡๐’๐’“๐’ˆ๐’†๐’• ๐’‰๐’Š๐’Ž, ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’† ๐’Ž๐’† ๐’˜๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐‘ฐ ๐’‚๐’Ž. ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’ˆ๐’‰ ๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’š ๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’ˆ๐’๐’๐’†, ๐’Ž๐’†๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’š ๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’๐’. ๐‘จ๐’๐’… ๐‘ฐ ๐’Ž๐’Š๐’”๐’” ๐’‰๐’Š๐’Ž, ๐’Ž๐’š ๐‘ถ๐’๐’… ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’.”  ๐‘ณ๐’š๐’“๐’Š๐’„๐’” ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž …