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Death or Loss of a Loved One & traumatic grief

Below are the best resources we could find on Death or Loss of a Loved One and traumatic grief.

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Care Farming: Using Restorative Spaces to Address Traumatic Grief

A new study explores the importance of care farming, using therapeutic spaces to treat individuals impacted by traumatic grief.

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A Force for Change: Coping With Grief Through Activism and Advocacy

When people are pushed into advocacy or social work as a result of a traumatic loss, part of the benefit for those affected is in keeping busy, but it’s also a way to memorialize their loved ones, explained Joanne Cacciatore, an associate research professor at Arizona State University who studies...

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Dr. Joanne Cacciatore on Preparing for Tragedies

Joshua and Ryan discuss appropriate preparation for the loss of loved ones with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore.

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Grieving Is Loving: Compassionate Words for Bearing the Unbearable

This book is comprised of quotations from Bearing the Unbearable, and other sources as well, plus an enormous amount of new material from Dr. Jo.

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Can Rescue Animals Change the Way We Grieve?

There is a care farm in Arizona where rescue animals are helping people deal with traumatic grief.

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Dr Joanne Cacciatore: Grief from Darkness to Light

Are you feeling down and looking for inspiration? Join Renaissance woman Dr. Joanne Cacciatore for a message of hope. The death of Joanne’s baby daughter changed her life and committed her to serving others who were suffering traumatic deaths. She says, “in darkness I found my true self.”

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Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

Organized into fifty-two short chapters, Bearing the Unbearable is a companion for life’s most difficult times, revealing how grief can open our hearts to connection, compassion, and the very essence of our shared humanity. Dr.

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After Tragedy, Nonbelievers Find Other Ways to Cope

Cacciatore says she’s seen nonbelievers embrace spirituality, and religious people wash their hands of God, in the aftermath of tragedy. But most often, she says, tragedy shakes your faith but doesn’t destroy it.

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Love and loss: Animals’ gentle support for the grieving : Arizona State University (ASU)

Joanne Cacciatore is an ASU School of Social Work associate professor whose work focuses on traumatic grief.

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