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Resources for Widow/ers
What do we think about creating an area for resources?
some ideas:
Useful links:
Organisations (non-profit) for Widow/ers:
Soaring Spirits Loss Foundation
Oranisations (non-profit) for Widow/ers with Children/Teenagers:
Widows in the Third World:
Remembering:
Much Loved - Free online memorials
May bring comfort:
Ashes:
Cremation and Memorial Jewellry
Ideas for scattering ashes and urns
Memory Quilts:
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Useful Articles about Grief:
Poetry:
Movies:
Music for Grieving:
to soothe, comfort and allow tears:
Rachmaninoff - Vocalise (piano or orchestral)
Symphony No.2 Third Movement
Massenet - Meditation from Thais
Chopin - Prelude no. 4 in E Minor
to relieve sadness, relieve insomnia:
Barber - Adagio for Strings
to accompany us when alone, to think:
Canteloube - Songs of the Auvergne
Brahms - Violin Concerto in D Major, Second Movement
Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra, Second Movement
Dvorak - Serenade for Strings - Symphony No.9 in E minor, Second Movement
Music to give us strength:
Beethoven No.6 in F, Op 68 (pastoral)
Tchaikovsky - String Quartet No.1 in D, Op 11, Second Movement
to encourage change:
Borodin - String Quartet No.2 in D major, Third Movement
DeliFus - Song of Summer
Music to support a change of direction and to encourage when there are problems to solve:
Schubert - String Quartet No.13in A minor (Rosamunde) Second Movement
Handel - Concerto for two Horns in B flat (The Lento)
Concerto for Organ No.13 (The Cuckoo and The Nightingale)
Bruch - Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor, op 26
music for the "new normal", enriched with memories, yet having actively and fully grieved, experience of grief, acceptance of new normal:
Mascagni - Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Rimsky-Korsakov - Symphonic Suite (Sheherazade)
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.2
Khatchaturian - Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
Books for Widow/ers:
Companion through the Darkness
A Grace Disguised - How the Soul Grows through Loss
Seven Choices - Finding Daylight after Loss shatters your World
Books for Widow/ers with Children:
Sad isn't Bad - Michaelene Mundy
What on earth do you do when someone dies? - Trevor Romain
The Color of Absence - 12 stories about Love and Hope
Books recommended for widowed parents:
Guiding your Child through Grief
35 ways to help a grieving child - The Dougy Centre
Blogs:
WidVille Members' Blogs:
(list of blogs - alphabetical or by year widowed or with children, widower ...)
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Permalink Reply by Dianne in Nevada on -
Great resources, haleO. I Googled "When families grieve" and found the video online. This page also offers other resources. Here's the link: When Families Grieve
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Permalink Reply by jean on -
http://www.counselingforloss.com/fivestagesofgrief.html
""The doctor Elsabeth Kubler-Ross had a great disappointment? I listened as she told me that her stages of dying had been “taken over” by the thanatological community and was made into the stages of grief. She shook her head negatively and looked filled with despair""
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Permalink Reply by Braunie on -
Thanks Jean, this was very accurate, at least for me.
This is a link to practical stuff because some of us may not have dealt with alot of the financial details...
http://www.tomorrowsmoney.org/Templates/tm/index.aspx
and specifically for us:
http://www.unwantedchange.org/Templates/uc/Index.aspx
(follow the menu on the left)
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