Kara LC Jones

Tend Your Grief Experiences First + Ongoing
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Tend Your Grief Experiences First + Ongoing

Grief often comes with many misconceptions. One prevalent idea is that grief is to be gotten over or resolved, as if it’s a binary on/off state of being. The damage this does shows throughout our culture’s level of grief illiteracy. So if we want to change this landscape at all, how do we start? Well,…

Grief Literacy – Start With Yourself
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Grief Literacy – Start With Yourself

Two different experiences brought me to today’s column topic. First, I remember reading a poet’s work, after the death of one of his parents, about the surprise of learning there is a whole world of grief support, materials, and organizations. Second, in my own grief experience, I at first thought we had to create what…

Meeting Grief: Unmet Needs During the Pandemic Years
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Meeting Grief: Unmet Needs During the Pandemic Years

By Kara LC Jones (GriefAndCreativity.com) Though grief is as human an experience as joy or love, we often find we are not as skilled at dealing with loss and its aftermath as we might be if dealing with celebration. These pandemic years of human life have included a lot of adaptation, change, loss, and readjustment….