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Response to Dr. Neimeyer’s Meaning of Life Post

By Dr. Robert Neimeyer | January 6, 2025 | 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: this is an eloquent response to Dr. Neimeyer’s recent post “What is the Meaning of Life? Goodbye to 2023″ which can be found here: What is the Meaning of Life? Goodbye to 2023 Dear Dr. Neimeyer, For many seasons have you offered support, real support to those of us who have lost loved […]

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What is the Meaning of Life? Goodbye to 2024

By Dr. Robert Neimeyer | December 30, 2024 | 0 Comments

What is the Meaning of Life? We repost this classic Dr. Neimeyer piece as every new year approaches. –The Editors Dear Dr. Neimeyer, I have just one question, but it is a big one. In your opinion, what is the meaning of life?–Nicolae Dear Nicolae, I’m a practicing psychologist who works alongside people who are […]

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Grieving for a Husband/Father During Holiday Season

By Dr. Robert Neimeyer | December 23, 2024 | 0 Comments

Grieving for a Husband/Father During the Holidays Dear Dr. Neimeyer, My husband Don died 9 months ago after a rapid decline; and his lungs basically stopped working, even with oxygen treatments.  His death has been hard for us as a family in many ways, as he lived only about 6 months after getting the diagnosis, and […]

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I want to be dead

By Dr. Robert Neimeyer | December 16, 2024 | 0 Comments

Dear Dr Neimeyer, My attention was recently drawn to your website, and especially this section of it, and I now have a great desire to ask for your help. My beloved husband wanted to die at home.  We had been married for over 50 years, and he had suffered with lung cancer and eventually dementia for […]

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Five Principles for Managing Grief in the New Year

By Dr. Robert Neimeyer | December 9, 2024 | 0 Comments

Dear Dr. Neimeyer– My husband died just over a year ago, so on January 1st I will start my second year without him, and I am not looking forward to it.  It’s not that I am immobilized by grief, as I have gotten better across the months in that department, and actually feel pretty good […]

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Does Continuing Bonds Therapy Really Work?

By Dr. Robert Neimeyer | December 2, 2024 | 0 Comments

Dear Dr. Neimeyer, A good deal of my practice with grieving clients is influenced by your work and that of your colleagues like Dennis Klass on the idea of continuing bonds–the concept that bereaved people really are striving to maintain their attachment to deceased loved ones who have died rather than “let go,” “withdraw energy […]

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A Grief and the Holidays Compendium

By Dr. Robert Neimeyer | November 25, 2024 | 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: This week we are printing a compendium of comments to recent Ask Dr. Neimeyer posts focusing on grief and the holidays. Hi..please help me to overcome the blame of my mom’s death, I lost my mom last summer. She had a heart complications (angina) and also arthritis, me and my sisters we took […]

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Trauma and Grief in Natural Disasters: Steps to Reconstruction

By Dr. Robert Neimeyer | November 18, 2024 | 0 Comments

Dear Dr. Neimeyer, I’ve been watching and reading about the horrible flooding in Valencia, Spain, as a result of record rainfall in that region, and my heart breaks to witness the death toll that is quickly climbing into the hundreds, along with the unbelievable scenes of destruction of whole towns and neighborhoods. Many of us […]

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A Veteran and a Partner’s Suicide

By Dr. Robert Neimeyer | November 11, 2024 | 0 Comments

Editor’s note: we are reprinting this post in honor of all who have served their country, veterans and those currently serving. Dear Dr. Neimeyer, My partner committed suicide in front of me last February. He asked me to hold his hand. I always promised I’d be there for him, regardless. But this was something I […]

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The Roller Coaster of Grief

By Dr. Robert Neimeyer | November 4, 2024 | 0 Comments

Dear Dr. Neimeyer. Today marks eight months since I lost my husband. He was only 46 years old. I still am having a difficult time realizing he is not coming back. The first few months after he was gone, I had to leave work every single day at lunch to cry in my car and […]

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