Coping with Disasters, Loss, & Change After Katrina By Nordette Adams
Last edited: Saturday, September 24, 2005
Posted: Friday, September 16, 2005
For a resource list of helpful articles on the subject of coping with grief, loss, children's fears, change, and stress, please follow the link on this page to 'Confessions of a Jersey Goddess.'
In 2004, responding to a fellow writer in a forum at Writing.com, I wrote a piece on grief that I later titled "Swim At Your Own Pace: An Open Letter to One Grieving". One thing I've learned from writing forum responses is that you never know what will pour out of you spontaneously that later proves to help many people. The article is posted and found more easily today at my AuthorsDen site.
Web surfers hit the piece fairly often searching for information on the five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance (DABDA). No, I'm not a psychologist, and I don't play one on TV or the Net, but over my 45 years I've accumulated a small clearinghouse of information in my brain that, despite my flakiness, I seem to access easily when writing. Looking at recent visits to my piece on grieving, I decided supplying a list of resources to help families and individuals deal with grief, loss, trauma, and children's anxiety and fears would be helpful after Katrina. That list follows this commentary.
...Continue reading HERE at Confessions of a Jersey Goddess
The most important thing to remember about grief is that it is personal. Everyone does it at their own pace and in their own way. nobody can tell anybody how or when to grieve and when to stop
This is excellent, Nordette. I could use this in my Planning classes (if I were in school). One of the themes we deal with is grieving. Thank you for sharing your valuable thoughts. Love and peace.
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