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I am a mother, partner, and social worker. I lived in DC for 56 years and now live in rural eastern Oregon, known as the high desert Oregon Outback. I provide psychotherapy in a primary care clinic. I knit, crochet, and garden. I worship in a progressive Episcopal parish in a sea of otherwise evangelical Christians. I am bisexual, and do workshops on LGBTQ lives and ways of being.
Area of knowledge and what I know well:
psychotherapy, caregiving, social service systems and how to be an advocate within them, LGBTQ mental health, psychosocial aspects of physical challenges.
Bio
Social worker living in eastern Oregon. I provide psychotherapy in a primary care clinic. I'm bisexual, and do LGBTQ workshops. Very knowledgeable in Caregiving – come find me there!
Hi there, boofiepie,
Loss of a spouse of so many years is HUGE. And for you, so recent and raw.
I've never lost a spouse to death, so I don't really know what this is like for you. I've lost my parents, and my sister's first child died of SIDS at 3...
Hello there, dear js16... Fifty years is more than half a lifetime. Most likely you were his wife and now his widow. (There's a small chance that you are also a man and his husband.) Regardless of anything, you are bereft. Four months is not a lot of...
Hello, Veronica.
Grief is the gift that keeps on giving. It is SO HARD. You know that already. I wonder if finding a grief group might help you. Is there a hospice near you? Many hospices welcome other people who are grieving to their bereavement g...
Hi Sherree. Gosh that's a tough one. And it feels like the last chapter of our lives is adjusting to these losses. I used to work as a social worker in various oncology settings, including an inpatient unit and different chemotherapy clinics. One of ...
I have a book called “Every moment holy” and there is a volume on death, grief and hope. I will paraphrase the part about the “Loss of a loving parent”:
I have lived my life till now with a sense there was a strong, buffering wall between myself an...
Hi there, boofiepie,
Loss of a spouse of so many years is HUGE. And for you, so recent and raw.
I've never lost a spouse to death, so I don't really know what this is like for you. I've lost my parents, and my sister's first child died of SIDS at 3...
Hello there, dear js16... Fifty years is more than half a lifetime. Most likely you were his wife and now his widow. (There's a small chance that you are also a man and his husband.) Regardless of anything, you are bereft. Four months is not a lot of...
Hello, Veronica.
Grief is the gift that keeps on giving. It is SO HARD. You know that already. I wonder if finding a grief group might help you. Is there a hospice near you? Many hospices welcome other people who are grieving to their bereavement g...
Hi Sherree. Gosh that's a tough one. And it feels like the last chapter of our lives is adjusting to these losses. I used to work as a social worker in various oncology settings, including an inpatient unit and different chemotherapy clinics. One of ...
I have a book called “Every moment holy” and there is a volume on death, grief and hope. I will paraphrase the part about the “Loss of a loving parent”:
I have lived my life till now with a sense there was a strong, buffering wall between myself an...
Hi there, boofiepie,
Loss of a spouse of so many years is HUGE. And for you, so recent and raw.
I've never lost a spouse to death, so I don't really know what this is like for you. I've lost my parents, and my sister's first child died of SIDS at 3...
Hello there, dear js16... Fifty years is more than half a lifetime. Most likely you were his wife and now his widow. (There's a small chance that you are also a man and his husband.) Regardless of anything, you are bereft. Four months is not a lot of...
Hello, Veronica.
Grief is the gift that keeps on giving. It is SO HARD. You know that already. I wonder if finding a grief group might help you. Is there a hospice near you? Many hospices welcome other people who are grieving to their bereavement g...
Hi Sherree. Gosh that's a tough one. And it feels like the last chapter of our lives is adjusting to these losses. I used to work as a social worker in various oncology settings, including an inpatient unit and different chemotherapy clinics. One of ...
I have a book called “Every moment holy” and there is a volume on death, grief and hope. I will paraphrase the part about the “Loss of a loving parent”:
I have lived my life till now with a sense there was a strong, buffering wall between myself an...