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    • Good Grief Day Camp
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Food for Thought – One Brick at a Time

Hope & EncouragementBy Lori S. Rueffer, LCSWAugust 10, 2020Leave a comment

The pain of grief is real. The pain of losing someone you love is intense. It can be like losing a part of yourself. Or that self is in pieces so it seems easier, maybe even safer, to build a wall around your heart so you can never, ever hurt again. In a “What’s Your…

Food for Thought – And Now… I Will Be Kind to Myself

Hope & EncouragementBy Lori S. Rueffer, LCSWJuly 10, 2020Leave a comment

Let’s spend our time together this month looking at ways to help yourself in this time of fear, grief and loss. We can call it self-care or showing yourself compassion. I like the phrase self-kindness. It’s something we all need to give ourselves during a difficult, exhausting walk in the shadow of hurt and sorrows.…

Food for Thought – Together in Grief, Together in Hope

Hope & EncouragementBy Lori S. Rueffer, LCSWJune 10, 2020Leave a comment

At the end of my “Food for Thought” in May, I invited you to stay connected to yourself and others during this pandemic time. I was thinking about how it’s important we give ourselves permission to, “Take good care of yourself. And others.” To find new meaning in sharing losses and being a witness to…

Food for Thought – The Pandemic of Grief…And HOPE

Hope & EncouragementBy Lori S. Rueffer, LCSWMay 10, 2020Leave a comment

Dear Friends, I, too, am going to chat for a while with you, following in the footsteps of the compassionate and thoughtful Food for Thought from April 2020 written by Judy Hanson. Please don’t let the social distancing from others due to the virus also distance you from yourself and “what’s going on within you…

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