My father and I did not have a good relationship. After my mom died when I was ten, we never talked about her, or about death, or my fears and bewilderment as a child. My mom’s mother told me he… Read More ›
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The Horror of the Mental Illnesses
The more information that comes out about Mr. Card, the sadder I become. I was right. The man was seriously mentally ill with what seems to have been command hallucinations; and what happened was almost a foregone conclusion. Why oh… Read More ›
Governor Mills Launches “Healing Together” Online Resource to Help Support to Lewiston Victims and Families
Press Release from the office of the Governor of Maine. October 28, 2023. https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MEGOV/bulletins/3782d9e Governor Mills Launches “Healing Together” Online Resource to Help Support to Lewiston Victims and Families October 28, 2023 Website identifies places for financial donations to support… Read More ›
How Aid in Dying Became Medical, Not Moral – from the New York Times
The debate over aid in dying still rages in the language that medicine and the media use to describe the practice. By Rachel E. Gross Oct. 24, 2023, 3:00 a.m. ET In rural Iowa, Peg Sandeen recalls, living with AIDS meant living… Read More ›
Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Groups to Resume at The Grief Warrior Project
The following was posted on our website “The Grief Warrior Project“, and can be found at https://warrior-project.org/2021/03/04/support-groups-resuming-2/ Life was been wicked busy lately, even as I’ve struggled to find purpose in it all. But I’ve had a few surprising breakthroughs… Read More ›
Coping with Suicide – Individual & Group Sessions
The Grief Warrior Project, a division of Heritage Health Services, has announced that its Tuesday night support group for those coping with the devastation of a loved one’s suicide, will begin again on August 4. Due to the COVID 19… Read More ›
Understanding the Complexities of Suicide
Over several decades, I had been trained in suicide prevention and intervention. I had known people who suicided: employees, the children of employees, others… I thought I understood suicide. Then my beloved husband killed himself. And I realized I didn’t… Read More ›
Restorative Retelling Grief Group
Beginning Monday, January 20 from 6-8 pm, Androscoggin Home Health will facilitate a “Restorative Retelling Grief Group” for adult family members and friends who have been affected by the sudden loss of a loved one as a result of homicide,… Read More ›
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