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Mindfulness
Mindfulness helps patients cultivate present-moment awareness, enabling them to observe and describe what is occurring without judgment. Mindfulness effectively counteracts viewing the present through the lens of distorted hopes, expectations, and past experiences of rejection and abandonment. Many patients believe … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, coping skills, disconnect, emotions, encouragement, faith, family, fear, gratitude, healing, honesty, inspiration, kindness, love, mantra, memories, mindfulness, rituals, self-awareness, support system
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Ambiguous
Ambiguous Loss. Something experienced by a quiet club that grieves in the shadows: women who’ve miscarried, parents of disabled children or addicted children, people with a chronically ill spouse. The death of a thousand dreams. There are no rituals for … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambiguous Loss, care giver, catastrophe, compassion fatigue, coping skills, death, divorce, faith, family, gratitude, Grief, honesty, Lee Woodruff, mindfulness, rituals, second chances, Secondary Trauma, support system, trauma
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Real Life of an MSW 