Over the past few weeks I have been writing about the ten stages that you will go through when you experience grief. The first stage is “Shock & Disbelief” which is really a buffer period and it allows you to get your thoughts together. Second is “Emotional Release” which is the ability to get rid… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Marc’s Musings
2012-02-08 “Cycle of Grief Part 5”
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 »
2012-02-01 “Cycle of Grief Part 4”
“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 »
2012-01-25 “Cycle of Grief Part 3”
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 »
2012-01-25 “Cycle of Grief Part 2”
We were sitting in the church before my mother’s funeral. My son and my nephew, both about 13 at the time were sitting next to each other. I don’t know who started to laugh first, but between the two of them, it became contagious. My sister was a bit annoyed at those two boys but… Read more »
2012-01-10 The Cycle of Grief
When my sister died the year before I went to Humber College, I kept everything inside. I avoided being around the people who could have helped me the most because I thought that when people had a common reason to grieve, they couldn’t support each other. How wrong I was! One of the most interesting… Read more »
2012-01-04 “Thanks”
I want to offer a big thanks to everyone who made the 2011 Christmas Memorial Tree possible. To the generous offers of trees from Janet Holmes, Wendy Lachine and Sandra Rumble and to the Paul Welton Family for donating their tree this year, a big thanks! To Max Lindsay and crew from M&M Tree Service… Read more »
2011-12-14 Christmas Gifts
If I could give something to all of you this Christmas, this is what it would be: Patience It seems that we are always in a hurry and maybe at Christmas time it’s even worse. When you’re in the grocery store on the day before Christmas and somebody just took the last loaf of bread,… Read more »
2011-12-07 “Christmas”
It’s that time of year again; Christmas is just a few days away. Saying that this Christmas will be difficult is a huge understatement for many of you because of the loss you have experienced this year. As a bereaved spouse, parent, sibling or child you will probably come to the conclusion that there are… Read more »
2011-12-02 “Christmas Memorial Tree”
The countdown is on. By the time many of you are reading this, there will be only 23 days left before Christmas morning. For some of you, the excitement will be building and for some of you, sadness will wash away the joy of Christmas this year. Once again the Blenheim Community Funeral Home will… Read more »
