Posts Categorized: Marc’s Musings

The eighth stage of the grief cycle is called State of Inertia. This is the time when you will feel like doing nothing; the time when you will be sitting in your car, watching a train come down the tracks and wondering what use there is in carrying on. This is another stage like depression… Read more »

“Grief” is an emotion that we feel when we experience loss. Death is only one kind of loss. Other losses that make us grieve include divorce, losing your job, loss of a pet and so on…all of those things that end the life that we knew and force us to start a new one. There… Read more »

This is the third week for us to walk through the stages of grief that we will all experience when someone close to us dies. So far I have touched on Shock & Disbelief, Emotional Release and Depression. The fourth stage that we will go through is called Psychosomatic Illness. It is very common for… Read more »

The second stage of the grief cycle is Emotional Release. This is the ability to get rid of those bottled up feelings by crying, by screaming and yes, even by laughing…whatever positive manifestations that allow a release of emotions. It’s okay to cry…it’s okay to laugh…it’s okay to yell at the world. You need to… Read more »

The next few weeks will be a repeat for some of you because I run these articles every year, but for those who have lost someone in the last year, they will be meaningful. I am going to share again what I learned in school about the Psychology of Grief because I feel it is… Read more »

Winter, and perhaps someday there may be Another fireplace, another room, With crackling fire and fragrant smoke. And turning suddenly, we will be together, And I will hear your laughter and touch your face And hold you close to me again. But until then, if loneliness should seek you out Some winter night, when snow… Read more »

As I sit here wondering what I might write about this week, I can only think of Christmas and how much it hurts for some of you. I want to write one single sentence that will make it better, but I can’t. Unfortunately Christmas is a time when grief intensifies. Sometimes I think about my… Read more »

  The Christmas tree is up in front of the Post Office in Blenheim!  Life has been busy for us and I had resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn’t have the tree done in time for the Santa Claus Parade but with the folks who came to help out, it got done!  Thanks… Read more »

These are words of hope at Christmas from a bereaved parent…  As a bereaved parent, I have experienced only two Christmases: the ones before and the ones after my son’s death. Christmas used to be focused on material issues…what did I want…what did my children want.  Eight years ago, my son died. Suddenly, my life… Read more »

In the movie “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy coined the phrase “there’s no place like home” and that’s true.  Almost half of my life was spent at my childhood home outside of Ridgetown, a place that is filled with happy memories for me.  Sometimes I’ve wished that I could just go back there and walk… Read more »