Archive for the 'Death' Category
What goes on in the mind of a person who feels they cannot go on? This is the territory my guest takes us into this week, as I interview Adele Royce. Her book, The Little Black Book of Suicide Notes, is designed to be the first of a trilogy on this normally taboo topic, sharing…
Ilene in Death, Emotions, Everyday Life, Family, Fear, Grief, Health, Joy, Life, Love, Men, Seniors, Women
How Much Grief Can We Take? Not only do we have a rapidly-changing world, requiring us to “let go of the old” with great frequency, but we also encounter personal losses–of people, places, pets and dreams. Add to that that our entire world is undergoing change at a very rapid pace, and you’ll understand that grief…
Ilene in Children, Death, Emotions, Everyday Life, Family, Fear, Forgiveness, Freedom, Grief, Healing, Health, Joy, Life, Love, Marriage, Men, Pain Relief, Parenting, Peace, Sadness, Women
When you were a child, did you have as many opportunities as today’s child to know about loss—through death, moving, divorce and pet loss? Most of my contemporaries lived in their same safe home, in the same safe neighborhood, going to the same safe schools as their friends. They did not hear frequently about school…
Ilene in Children, Death, Emotions, Everyday Life, Parenting
According to the AAVA, Americans owned more than 157 million pets in 2012. Americans LOVE their pets! A big problem with pets, however, is that their lives are shorter than human lives. We love them, and lose them far too soon for us. How do we deal with losing them? What do we need to…
Ilene in Animals, Death, Emotions, Healing
Fresh from the New York City Fringe Festival, the largest international theater festival in North America. Death Doula Giselle Suarez visits our studios to talk about this “forbidden” topic. Giselle says: “Death is a subject that permeates the life of every single human being and yet is rarely approached, and even more rare, approached in this…
Ilene in Death, Everyday Life, Fear, Joy, Life, Peace, Sadness