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StarLIVE – Beyond Grief

Expressing Condolences, Grief Management

Psychotherapist-cum-grief therapist Dr Edmund Ng gave a talk entitled "Beyond Grief: A Guide for Recovering From The Loss of A Loved One" at Menara Star on Aug 6. ...

When we have lost a loved one, the festive holidays are often a time we would rather skip as so many things will remind us that someone is missing and that, in turn, hurts. We may feel like just going...

Reaching out to bereaved children

Bereavement, Grief Management

When we reach out to bereaved parents, we must not neglect their children. Bereaved children also mourn and they need our attention to help them work through their grief. Infants of less than two y...

Dan and Cindi Lowden mourn their son, Jake Hudak, whose loss they are struggling to come to terms with. Photos: TNS

Life of parents after the death of a child

Bereavement

Spouses who have lost their partners are widows and widowers. Children who have lost their parents are orphans. But there is no term to describe a parent who has lost a child. Locally, some of thos...

Looking for consolation

Bereavement

No one, in any culture, likes to talk about death, let alone the fact that it’s an inescapable reality for all of us. In the west, there’s an obsession with youth, vitality and beauty – the ide...

Grief: How to go on after your loved one dies

Grief Management

It has been four years since his wife died. On a glass table in their home, there are two framed photographs of her: one taken when she was a young woman, the other when she had matured into middle ag...

How to cope with grief

Grief Management

With a strong support system, the grieving can learn to live again. ESTHER would have turned eight this year. It is not hard to imagine her, pretty as a princess, in a pink ballet costume, with her...

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StarLIVE – Beyond Grief

Surviving the holidays

Reaching out to bereaved children

Life of parents after the death of a child

Looking for consolation

Grief: How to go on after your loved one dies

How to cope with grief