Eight months after my wife Lisa died of cancer I sat on our bed staring at my gold wedding band, the symbol of our love and marriage that I still wore. I don’t want to let go. I didn’t want my marriage to end after only 8 years and the thought of removing my [...]
Life Without Lisa: A Widowed Father’s Compelling Journey Through the Rough Seas of Grief
An award-winning, heartfelt, personal journey of healing grief by Richard Ballo
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—Ira Byock, M.D., author of Dying Well and The Four Things That Matter Most
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Advice and insights about death and dying, grief, bereavement and healing.
“You are the worst father there is,” shouts Nick, my 12 year old son. My son is ranting and raving about the injustices he suffers at my rules. Rules that I ranted and raved about when I was his age. I smile as I acknowledge that he is like me. Did my father have the [...]
The holidays are not necessarily a happy, merry time – especially for people whose loved one has died during the past year, or even the past several years. In fact, if you’re one of multi-millions of people who suffer such a loss each year, the holidays tend to increase the feelings of grief and despair. [...]
After suffering the death of a beloved, most of us see no possible way we can recover or ever again find any joy in living. Mental and emotional darkness engulfs us. The moment consciousness returns each morning, the overwhelming reality of our loss takes us to our knees. Is it any wonder that the ultimate [...]
If someone you know has experienced a loss, it will have an effect on all who come into contact with that person. If you are one of those people, you may feel uncomfortable or perhaps uncertain. “What should I say?” is a common question. Some people who come into contact with a person who is [...]
Religion and politics are two subjects regarded as most abhorred in polite company, but there’s one that’s even more verboten: death and dying.How peculiar is that since no one is getting out of here alive? But the truth is, our mortality terrifies us. Granted, there is a community that deals with death and dying which [...]
