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Continuing Bonds: Love never dies - it's healthy to stay connected with your deceased loved ones   

Forever Family Foundation: Where science and spirituality work hand in hand to bring comfort to the bereaved.

A Grief Concept You Should Care About: Continuing Bonds - Whats your Grief 

Continuing Bonds -  This book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new relationships in the present. Pathological grief has been defined in terms of holding on to the deceased. Close examination reveals that this model is based more on the cultural values of modernity than on any substantial data of what people actually do.

Conversations around Death - Death Education

Death Cafe: At a "Death Café" people, often strangers, gather to eat  cake, drink tea and discuss death to increase  awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives'.  

Death Over Dinner: Information about how create a forum for  conversations with your friends. 

Living and Dying Consciously Project:  Helping individuals learn to live consciously – through all of life's passages – with the knowledge that death is inevitable. Learn to dance with grief. Experience the transformational power of rituals to shift your perspective and open the door to healing. 

Death Makes Life Possible: Could facing our mortality inspire us to live our lives more fully? Cultural anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz explores the mysteries of life and death from a variety of perspectives and world traditions.

Grief

Love Knows No Death is a powerful and innovative Grief Transformation Self-help Workbook and Visual Program developed by Dr. Piero Calvi-Parisetti.  

Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief by Dennis Klass, Phyllis R. Silverman, Steven

Whats your Grief - A Grief Website for the Rest of Us: What’s Your Grief seeks to help people explore ideas, experiences, and concepts related to grief, coping, and life after loss. Browse our library of resources below for online courses, books, helpful blog posts, and more.

Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief – TomZuba.com LLC 

The Grief Recovery Handbook - The Grief Recovery Method 

Well of Grief Ritual: Kitty Edwards of the Living & Dying Consciously Project. Ideas for grief rituals. 

The Irreverent Grief Guide: Overflowing with experience and facts, The Irreverent Grief Guide is NOT for everyone, but it just might be for you.

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma. This may be helpful for grief-work in general, especially Complicated Grief due to PTSD, as the method the author uses the most for guiding the reader through their self-healing work is embracing active grieving through various methods.

Caregiving

Caregiver's Journey - online graphic novel cartoon: How Mom Died 

INELDA 

INELDA is the International End-of-Doula Association with whom I have studied. I currently have a certificate and am working to obtain client-hours to qualify for the certification.  The training is spiritually secular, so all faiths including atheists are 

Cannabis-assisted Practices  

Cannabis in Spiritual Workings: Excellent outline of how to work cooperatively with a plant spirit in spiritual practices.  

Cannabis & Meditation: This combination has been the key component to my spiritual practices since about 2019. This article gives a quick overview of how cannabis can enhance a yoga and sound bath experience as well as the natural synergy of meditation and cannabis. 

Twin Flames: Spiritual Awakening (5D) Catalyst