A Time of Healing

December 31st, 2011
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As 2011 draws to a close and a New Year is almost here, you might be trying to figure out how you are supposed to face the future without a loved one who recently died.

Longtime grief counselor and educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt of Fort Collins, Colo., advises story-writing and storytelling to help the healing process.  “Tell the story of death and you begin to acknowledge it,” Wolfelt writes.  “Tell it 10 times and you begin to let it enter your heart.  Tell it over and over and you find it becoming part of who you are.”

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