How to deal with grief and loss

Grief is an experience that changes us deeply.
After experiencing grief, our entire view on life changes. We can clearly feel the difference of how we were before and after it. Those events are like landmarks that forever change our inner most being.
Life looks, feels, and even tastes differently. There’s a saying that goes like this: “What doesn’t kill us can only make us stronger…”
That saying is true for some people but not everyone is able to understand how to get stronger after traumatic events. My hope is that this article can somehow shed some light to help those who are experiencing grief to move forward and overcome the place that they are at.

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Family bonding activities – insights to help connect deeply

Bonding is emotional- you need to be present.
   You’ve probably been searching for family bonding activities and may have even found some great ideas.
But I want to share with you that bonding is more of an emotional and spiritual connection than something that can be achieved with outward situations.
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Of course having activities to do is always a great “setting” in which the actual connection occurs. Activities are ways to get the “brain waves” going and provide a context for bonding.

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