Posted August 4, 2024 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham He could not find his coffee cup. He knew he had had it in the car when he had driven to a friend’s to bike from her home. The biking and sharing was part of his processing the grief.
Maybe he had left his coffee cup on her porch.
He went to the […]
Posted August 4, 2024 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Fred was navigating the grief journey after his beloved had passed very suddenly (following a time of chronic health challenges) just four weeks ago. He had spent the evening with good friends who invited one of their neighbors to join them as a fourth for pizza and cards.
They spoke openly of Fred’s journey, […]
Posted April 20, 2021 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
It had been an intense retreat. She was grieving so many recent losses…
Her best friend had passed with ALS. Her brother passed suddenly of a heart attack while climbing the stairs to visit their mother. Then her mother passed from the coronavirus — a virus that prevented her from […]
Posted February 21, 2021 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
She saw a friend’s Facebook post about his dog, Bassie, passing.
She has several favorite quotations about dog’s passing, and she most often shares a very special one from The Dharma of Dogs, but she sent this one:
In the Lakota/Sioux tradition, a person who is grieving is considered […]
Posted November 3, 2018 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
On Thursday, she had to put down her beloved dog.
Half-heartedly, on Friday she went to a conference previously committed to that she had missed the first day of.
The first panel she attended was titled, “From Grief to Serenity”!
On Joy and Sorrow Kahlil Gibran Your joy is your sorrow […]
Posted May 23, 2018 in Wholesome Thoughts By Debra Basham Wholesome Thoughts
Dharma of Dogs is a wonderful book about grief, and this is worth remembering: “Dying might not be pretty, but it is natural.”
If you would like some support dealing with loss and grief, send email to debra@scs-matters.com, or from within the continental U.S. phone or text (269) 921-2217.
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Posted February 13, 2016 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Sacred Stories
They had seemed very right together. She thought this was a forever thing. Sure, they had gotten together so quickly after his wife died, but they had all known one another. It was not like they started out as strangers and they weren’t kids.
He had been restless for several years, but […]
Posted June 13, 2015 in Sacred Stories By Debra Basham Her mother had recently transitioned and so she went for a healing session to support her through the grief process. The image of a poker table popped into the healer’s mind immediately.
“I get the image of a game table, you know the kind people play poker at, and my sense is that your […]
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