Do You Think It’s Too Soon?

If you're breathing, chances are that at some point, you've experienced loss in your life.  That loss could have been a pet, a loved one, a partner or spouse, or heck, maybe even a car.  And with loss, comes grief, and mourning, and yes, eventually,...

Two Patients, Two Very Different Endings

This morning, I was awakened by a call to my cell phone from a new client whose sister had recently suffered a bleed in her brain secondary to untreated high blood pressure.  The client wanted to let me know that her family "wouldn't be needing our...

When the Heart Takes Over for the Mind

I was talking with a friend who recently lost her 85 y/o dad to cancer and she was sharing how his services were and how her mom, who herself is dealing with dementia, has been handling her husband's death. At one point in our conversation, she said,...