Dealing with grief is challenging but inevitable at some point in your life. Grieving can last for years, weeks, months, or years; everyone’s grief is different. The Recovery Village notes that grief can frequently cause sufferers to meet the criteria for major...
March 19, 2016. Eric died three weeks ago. His funeral was two weeks ago. We have to get out of the house, too many memories, too much pain. But where can we go? Ahh, the cabin – our escape and our refuge. Asylum. I think I drove. Someone had to have driven,...
As the 2022 year comes to an end, donors should consider how they can efficiently maximize their charitable donations for income tax purposes. EricsHouse is a qualifying 501(c)(3) charity to which donations qualify for a charitable deduction. However, claiming...
We were discussing Touchstone 1 (Open to the Presence of Your Loss) in our Men’s Group last week and it opened some questions for me. First, what is a touchstone? Though I’ve read Dr Wolfelt’s writings on the 10 Touchstones for Healing in Grief, I guess I always...
When we talk about grief as a journey it highlights the need to understand two key things about ourselves: Where we are right now Where we hope to go Alan Wolfelt describes the objective of our personal grief journey, where we hope to go, as Reconciliation. In our...
As a woman in long term recovery from alcohol and drugs it’s so important I never forget how my journey began. I was chained to the dark side for over 20 years, so the first few days; even weeks without any substances were terrifying. I had reached a point of being...
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