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Rabbi Kushner: An ‘Accommodation’ with God

By Interview with Rabbi Kushner — 2010

“My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he’s gotten used to the things that I’m not capable of and I’ve come to terms with things he’s not capable of,” Kushner says. “And we care very much about each other.”

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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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MISS Foundation: Helping Families Deal with Tragic Losses

The MISS Foundation serves families who are dealing with one of life’s ultimate darkest hours: the death of a child.

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Katherine Sweet
2013
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Father’s Campaign: More Time Off for Grieving Parents

Following the death of his 18-year-old daughter, Barry Kluger is campaigning for federal law to allow more time off for grieving parents.

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Olivia Smith
2012
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Is Grief Mental Illness? With Psychiatric Changes, Maybe

Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.

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Tim Townsend
2013
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Finding Purpose in Grief: The MISS Foundation Offers a Light at the End of Life’s Darkest Tunnel

A young mother nears the end of her pregnancy with the hope that this child will be as healthy as her other three children. For some reason, however, she feels a sense that something is wrong.

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Raising Arizona Kids
2011
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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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Helping Those Lost in the Darkness of Grief Find Themselves Again

Parents who have suffered the loss of a child are generally offered limited physical and emotional space for bereavement.

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Bob Tedeschi
2017
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A Shift in American Family Values Is Fueling Estrangement

Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.

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Joshua Coleman
2021
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Just-Like-That Mind: A Great Zen Teacher on Navigating Loss and Grief

The mismatch between the knowledge and the longing is perhaps the most anguishing of all human experiences.

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Maria Popova
2016
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