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ANNOUNCEMENT OF SERVICES

For information on retreats upcoming and services available, please call me at 813-451-1818 or email at goodgrief13@YAHOO.com.

My mission is to share what I have learned along this fierce path of healing and resurfacing. I can come to your group and speak, offer readings from my book, and help you to set up and facilitate a grief support group. 

Our retreats will be small groups and on weekends. There will be guest presenters and events. We will explore common ground and find ways to connect the differences. From meditation to nutrition, we will learn ways to grow and heal.

I am happy to spend time with fellow travelers and to light a little candle in this dark and oft times frightening awakening.

Thanks.

Linda

Dealing with Grief

This is the beginning. I have decided to branch out of amateur status and become published. My book, Taming the Dragon: Dealing with Grief, is available at The Book Patch - just search the bookstore titles.

Here is a short excerpt from the book. It is during the time that Alzheimer's was overtaking my mother and I could do nothing to stop it.

 "Mom is lying face down on the table in front of her wheelchair and she is neither dancing nor singing. The gathering, meant as a cheerful little insert into the lives of the people there, has gone sour. It is a scene of carnage now, in my mind. My heart is continuing its slow, painful crumble.

I am quite literally overcome, paralyzed even, with the knowing and the feeling.
I have tried so long to force the doctors and the staff and everyone caring for her that she is sinking. They will not listen. Even friends and family do not seem to get the impact. I cannot move. I cry outside the room; for her and for me.

Later that month, I called in hospice. It was a monumental act of will to pick up the phone and share with people whose business is seeing folks, comfortably, out and over the rainbow. To tell them my mom was on her way and I needed help as much as she did.

Staff and friends alike responded oddly, in my opinion. They were almost angry that I had called in the troops. This was a kind of battle and I had no one else to help fight it. But they frowned and said how they wished I had not done that; not called in hospice. She was going and all were in denial now. I seemed to be the only one aware of the truth."

Grief Class

TAMING THE DRAGON: DEALING WITH GRIEF

a book by Linda Crear

We will be using my book as a guide for the upcoming class on grief and grieving at Agape' MCC.

Meetings will begin soon. To keep abreast of dates and details please see Agape' News. 

   You can order your copy at the Book Patch.