Christina Bruni seems to have it all. She owns her own co-op, has a gym-toned body and striking good looks, and a career as a librarian. She’s fit and active.
When Your Dating Profile Includes Mental Illness
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May
2015
Category Archives: Grief
Art Therapy Helps Grieving Boy Cope With Loss
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May
2015
Matty Walls is an only child who’s always been open with his parents, telling them everything. That changed when his grandfather died in January.
Grief is Powerful. Here Are 6 Lessons Survivors Learn From Tragedy
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Apr
2015
My parents survived the Holocaust, so I was raised by people who had been wrenched through and through by horror and loss. Mom spent ages 14 to 17 in a work camp (once stealing potatoes from under her captors’ noses to feed a friend sick with typhus), and came home to find her mother and two sisters were dead. Dad was imprisoned at Auschwitz and Dachau. Despite the pain poised just beneath the surface, my parents were role models for how to wrest joy and meaning from tragedy.
Defeating a Rare Disorder
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Apr
2015
It started with a horrible, high-pitched wheezing, a sound unlike anything Laurian Scott and her husband, John, had ever heard, and it was coming from their 16-month-old daughter, Thisbe, as she gasped for air.
Therapy Dog Comforts Sick Children in Toronto Hospital
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Apr
2015
A 6-year-old Portuguese water dog named Moxie has shed light on the furrier side of medicine – providing a dog’s-eye view of her job as a therapy dog as she cuddled with patients and staff.
Ice Addiction Overtaking Alcohol as Biggest Problem Facing Indigenous Australianss
05
Apr
2015
Ice addiction is overtaking alcohol as the biggest problem facing Indigenous populations, the head of a rehabilitation centre specialising in treatment for Aboriginal people says. Joe Coyte is CEO of The Glen, on the New South Wales Central Coast, which treats about 200 addicts each year.
SPCA of Texas is Expanding Pet Grief Counseling Program
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Apr
2015
If you have ever lost a beloved pet, you know how hard it can be. Many of us struggle to cope with the loss of a pet. Pet bereavement can be a lonely, solitary grief. Fortunately, if you are grieving your best friend, you don’t have to go through it alone.
Grandmother Picks Up the Pieces After Family Decimated by Heroin
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Mar
2015
Andrea and Michael Frick broke free of their heroin addiction on Independence Day — free of the gnawing need, the dope sickness, the shame, the guilt. But they paid for that freedom with their lives.
Battling America’s Other PTSD Crisis
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Mar
2015
The fight that started Keith Davis on a path to a new life began when he was buying marijuana. It was early afternoon on Aug. 8. As he tells it, he was in at his usual hangout in North Central Philadelphia, in front of an abandoned church at 18th and Ridge. He was taking too long mulling over his purchase, and another man got impatient and told him to go buy his stuff somewhere else.
Turning Grief Into Hope for Others
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Mar
2015
I founded AirCraft Casualty Emotional Support Services after losing my fiance aboard TWA Flight 800 in 1996.