Listening With Grief Coaches do another type of listening-listening with. There are many ways to listen with. The best way we have found...

Coaches use three main kinds of listening skills: listening to, listening for,and listening with (Whitworth, Kinsey-House, & Sandahl,...

Grief coaching is a powerful human relationship in which trained coaches assist people to design their future after a loss rather than...

Coaches are now in schools, probation departments, churches, nonprofit corporations, and other community agencies. Coaching is a...

Death and dying are two of the most debated topics in matters of personal choice. You can't choose when or where you are born, but many...

Death is a natural occurrence, a passageway. When we can accept human death as another cycle of life, we can enjoy our daily lives more...

Death and dying can be taboo subjects for most of us yet we will need to confront them at some point. We go through "deaths" throughout...

To meet the physical needs of a dying child, it's important to provide as much comfort as possible. The change from curing to caring...

Children of all ages need honest and accurate information about their illness, treatment options, and outlook (prognosis). Children share...

Every child has his or her own concept of death. Past experiences with death, as well as age, emotional development, and surroundings are...

Written by lesabrackbill My friend Sharon has been living with chronically-ill children for eighteen years now. She, more than anyone I...

No one ever wants to think about a child in pain, let alone a child having to face a serious life-limiting or terminal illness. It’s...

Dora Black, honorary consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer This...

One of the most important things to recognize is that, like any e-motion - energy in motion - suicidal feelings, for the most part, pass...

I've spent a good 25 years of my life working on articulating my experience of having been one of the first paramedics in the country. My...

Just last week, I heard of another friend who committed suicide. I can think, offhand, of about five people, not including him, whom I've...

I have a loneliness inside me for you. My soul keeps it in a carry-on bag and stores it close at hand. I don't usually feel the weight of...

And though I close my eyes, I see La Vie en Rose. Last summer both my parents died. And in that, they gave me an amazing gift - the gift...

T he worn yellow lines on Highway 17 were coming too swiftly, as each line indicated we were closer to seeing my little girl's grave....

Flicking through the last few pages of our local newspaper this morning I was attracted to a small one inch by two-inch photograph of a...