Hospital patients as life coaches; testing "What would Bette Midler do?" in the face of loss (and her mom's dementia). It's all in this week's Tragicomedia, as artist Nancy Gershman…
Why you should live your dead guy's life for a day; the 3-day rule for wallowing; and how to "travel all over humanity" as a garage sale trumpet: Chicagoan Don…
When Memories of The Dead Overload Our Circuits Grief expert Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC recently listed the signs of what disbelief or denial looks like in individuals who have suffered the…
Doing No-Thing: a 2-Way Exercise The art of doing no-thing with a needy patient is different from doing nothing for a needy patient. It's an exercise in self-restraint for…
This chapter on prescriptive photomontage for the bereaved by memory artist, Nancy Gershman written expressly for grief expert Robert Neimeyer’s compendium,"Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved," has been…
Anita Wills, host of “Anita Talks Genealogy” on Blog Talk Radio interviewed me about my Ancestor Dreamscape work on April 11, 2011 from her California studio. Wills, the author of…
Linda Coffin knows one thing, and that is that narrative and design “simply must go hand-in-hand if we want to do justice to the story.” In a recent thread on…
Nancy's warring mother and grandmother Psychologist Elizabeth Lombardo, author of the happiness guidebook, "A Happy You: Your Ultimate Prescription for Happiness" tells us "...the proverbial 'hit the pillow to get aggression out…
Can a healing photo montage - not just metaphorically but literally - commingle our public and private selves? Wrestling with the death of her grandchild, a professional grief counselor was…
Below is the interview reprinted in full with Thomas MacEntee of High Definition Genealogy and the founder of Geneabloggers.com. MacEntee is a genealogist specializing in the use of technology and…
It's a historian's professional obligation to dispel myths and legends writes Gordon Wood (No Thanks for the Memories, The New York Review of Books, Jan. 13, 2011, ). But sometimes the…
Prescriptive photomontage for Shirley H Retelling the story of loss hurts. A normal component of grief recovery, it is often as painful as the loss itself. I remember one widow's words which always…
