When we lose someone or something we tend to experience significant pain and suffering. As a therapist, I encounter people dealing with grief and loss on many levels. Whether that loss is related to the death of a loved one, our health due...
Posted by Mary Lou Konsin, RN, LPC, CT
Food and eating have become such a common source of unhappiness. It’s astonishing to hear that the weight-loss industry in the United States hauls in $40 billion annually with diet pills, diet books, meal plans and surgical procedures. The...
Posted by Elizabeth Galanti, MBA, MA, LMHC
Death is an unavoidable and painful experience for the living. When someone dies the living have their own death experience. Regardless of how our loved ones die, we find it perhaps easier to comprehend their journey than our own by accepting...
Posted by Bernice Simmons, LPC, CCTP
The palpable pain of those suffering grief can be so intense that it can be overwhelming and confusing to know how we should behave or what to say in such situations to be helpful. How can we show support and caring to those who are grieving when we feel awkward and at a loss for words?...
Posted by Dana Nygaard, MA, LPC
“Her fireman died.” These were the poignant words of my toddler son, as he pointed to a woman in the grocery store. Of course, he was not aware of the weight of his statement. The woman was his teacher at a church school the...
