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How to Recover and Find Strength After Losing a Parent

By Alan Marsden

“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.” ~Dalai Lama

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The MISS Foundation: A Lifeline to Grieving Families

Joanne Cacciatore of Sedona started the nonprofit MISS Foundation in 1996 to provide counseling, advocacy, research and education services to families who have endured the death of a child.

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Mary Ann Bashaw
2016
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Joanne Cacciatore on Bereavement Work and Traumatic Loss: On the Future of Mental Health

Part of being human means that we do experience the natural ebb and flow of life. This brings sadness and joy, despair and happiness, pain and beauty, loss and love. These aspects of the human experience are normal.

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Eric R. Maisel
2016
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Meet Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

Most of you know her as Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, founder of the MISS Foundation and professor and researcher at Arizona State University. Her expertise is helping those affected by traumatic death.

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Sarah Love
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The Geography of Sorrow

"But now we’re asked — and sometimes forced — to carry grief as a solitary burden. And the psyche knows we are not capable of handling grief in isolation." - Francis Weller

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Tim McKee, Francis Weller
2015
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How Losing Her Family and Battling Drug Addiction Led to Triumph for This Meditation Guru

Biet Simkin has had a "hard" life: she’s lost her mother, and her father. She got signed to Sony at 18, only to have her career not take off. She’s conquered a crushing addiction to heroin and cocaine. She became a single mother while recovering from her addiction, only to lose her baby to SIDS.

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Ally Bogard, Allie Hoffman
2017
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