The Grief Recovery Institute Helpful Articles

Helpful Articles and Media Related Responses

The Articles-Recovery from grief or loss is achieved by a series of small and correct choices made by the griever. We hope these articles give you some valuable insights into those actions
and provoke you to begin taking them as soon as possible.

John W. James, Russell P. Friedman, Eric J. Cline

People's Reaction to Loss and What to Do about It

Grief is the normal and natural reaction to loss, yet most of the knowledge and information we acquire about dealing with loss is not normal, natural, correct, or helpful. In the course of our work, we are constantly called upon to explain what we mean when we make the statement that the majority of what we are taught about dealing with loss is not of assistance to us when a real-life emotional crisis occurs.

With that in mind, we present here a series of articles that we have written and have published over the years that can help you get a clearer picture of what is true and accurate in relationship to both grief and recovery, for yourself and on behalf of others about whom you may be concerned.The articles were written by Russell P. Friedman, Executive Director and John W. James, with input Director of The Grief Recovery Institute of Canada. Russell and John are co-authors of The Grief Recovery Handbook When Children Grieve.The articles combine educational information with answers to commonly asked questions. We present them here in the order they were written.

Killer Cliches about Loss Less Than Loved Ones---Hopes and Dreams Am I Equipped for Happiness If I Start Crying will I be able to Stop? Are There Actual Stages of Grieving? Am I Paranoid, or are People Avoiding Me ? I'm Fine...and Other Lies!!! Exploring The "F" Words #1 Exploring The "F" Words #2 Exploring The "F" Words #3---Familiarity Right or Happy...Pick One Is It Ever to Soon to Recover?	Heart vs. Smart! Emotional Jet Lag On Crying - Part 1 On Crying - Part 2 Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later "As Unconditional as It Gets" Legacy of Love or Monument to Misery After the Fall of The Towers Recovering From Loss & Adapting to a New Reality Conclusionary Rituals What a Difference a Day Makes Uh-Oh, It's That Time Again
In The Media Following are a number of Articles many which have appeared in National and Local Newspapers and Magazines. They are in no particular order, but are here in hopes of providing help and understanding on current events. A special thanks, to those in media related fields for the interviews, personal appearances and publication of our work. We love you! Your efforts have helped us spread the message of hope and recovery throughout North America and the United Kingdom.
Please Pass the Vitamin H Remind Me – Remind Me Not – Remind Me Columbine – Five Years On – Anniversary or Sad Marker? Just the Feelings, Ma'am And the World’s Cauldron Bubbles… Emotional Trash Compactor MaxTheDog Reduced to Joy Emotional Root Canal Home Alone The Heart Has a Mind of Its Own The Bad News about Good Intentions Hammer, Saw, or Tissues? Doing Hard Shoe Time My Giraffe is Smarter Than Your Ham Sandwich Crinkle, Crinkle, Little Star Uh-Oh, It's That Time Again! All Those Lonely Fish The Poisoned Sponges Saluting Bounty - Toasting Freedom Honoring Eleven - Eleven - Eleven Sometimes We Need to Step on the Crunchy Leaves Curses Not Foiled Again Proverbs and Pound Cake You Can't Outrun Your Heart Too Good To Be True - Yup! They Knew Him, They Loved Him, They Just Never Met Him Grief Needle in the Haystack In the Google of My Mind When Moving is a Moving Experience Only in Caulifohrnia No Time Like the Present Arrow in the Heart Tough Day - Thanks for Asking! Emotional Non-Sequitur Right or Happy...Pick One Never Ending Loop Am I Paranoid, or are People Really Avoiding Me? Emotional Crud Good Intentions Plus Good Information To Honor & Obey and Then Some	Where Have You Been? Why Didn't You Call? Bottom Line - Heart or $ Random & Senseless, but Fulfilling The Ink-Link to Grief and Recovery Prime Time Rerun Your Children Are Listening The Oyster Bunny Rides Again Grief Recovery's Man of The Year Emotional Muscle Memory Riding on the Rims Kudos and Challenges From Here to Quaternity Marauding Do-Gooders Attack Middle America Talking to Your Children about Frightening Events in the News Special Tribute to Fred Rogers Media/Valentines_Past_Present_Lost.htm Good Vibrations Travel Far - So do Bad Ones Of Onions, Artichokes, and Chocolate The Columbia Crew and Us Bad Parenting, Modern Style One of the Proverbial Monkeys Emotional CPR They're Dropping Like Flies If It Bleeds, It Leads Half-Measures = Half Results Famous and Dead Stairway to Nowhere 2000 Years Young - But Whose Counting? Grief is not Contagious - Bad Manners Are As Little Brothers Often Do Evil Step-Child The Glass Slipper Meets The Man Who Had No Shoes Last Words Last Forever Looking for the Mystery Man Water, Water Everywhere What Can One Say When a Colleague Dies Sorry Dear, Dad's Dead 50 Years to Life Empty Nest or Emptiness When Funny Isn't Grief By any Other Name - Fort Bragg Autopsy When the Dow Breaks - The Cradle Will Fall Empty Nest or Emptiness The Grief Connection - From Stockton to Red Lake RECUPERANDOSE DE UNA PERDIDA Y ADAPTANDOSE A UNA NUEVA REALIDAD LEGACY OF LOVE

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