Posts Tagged ‘Dr. Mari Dias’
GriefSPEAK: A Love Letter of pet loss on this Valentine’s Day – Mari Nardolillo Dias
by Mari Nardolillo Dias, EdD, contributing writer on grief and grieving As told to Mari Dias by Maggie Dias: Hi! I’m Maggie. I also answer to: Mags, Maggie Mags, Magadoo and Magster. I am 9 years old. I crossed the rainbow bridge this week. My cousin Gracie greeted me at the gate, and there are so…
Read MoreGriefSPEAK: Gift or Burden? How Survivors Interpret Suicide Notes in a Changing World – Mari Nardolillo Dias
By: Mari Dias, EdD, contributing writer on grief and grieving Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down today. Nothing gold can stay (Robert Frost, 1923) Thirty to Thirty…
Read MoreGriefSPEAK: Two Truths and a Lie – Mari Nardolillo Dias
by Mari Nardolillo Dias, EdD, contributing writer “We wanted to confess our sins, but there were no takers” (Milosz) Dear Readers- I suspect that many of you are familiar with the game, “Two Truths and a Lie.” Each person in the group (or individual) states three facts and the audience needs to determine which statement…
Read MoreGriefSPEAK: Completion. Finished. Done. The Meaning We Give Our Lives. – Mari Nardolillo Dias
by Mari Nardolillo Dias, EdD, contributing writer, grief and grieving I’ll admit it. I have a penchant, no perhaps an obsession with completion. I often find it almost impossible to begin a task unless I can guarantee that I will finish in total. When grading assignments, the logical approach might be a few at a…
Read MoreGriefSPEAK: What would you do if you weren’t afraid? – Mari Nardolillo Dias
by Mari Nardolillo Dias, EdD, contributing writer I recently revisited the iconic, allegorical parable from the book “Who Moved My Cheese”? by Spencer Johnson. Often used as a “motivational business fable” (New York Times), the 4 characters display varying reactions to change and pitfalls. The characters, two mice (Sniff and Scurry) and two “littlepeople” (Hem…
Read MoreGriefSPEAK: Collectively, we grieve – Mari Nardolillo Dias
By: Mari Nardolillo Dias, EdD, contributing writer We board a bus we board a plane. In some cases, we have only a name. Of the one behind the steering wheel. With only a voice we know that they’re real. On faith we’re in their capable hands Not really knowing all of God’s plans. Safe travels…
Read MoreGriefSPEAK: The Mortician’s Daughter – Mari Nardolillo Dias
by Mari Nardolillo Dias, EdD, contributing writer The month of June, regardless of the years gone by, will always be the month my dad died and I received my doctoral dissertation. This article is an homage to our relationship. (Names and locations have been changed) It’s complicated when you’re a girl; even more so when…
Read MoreGriefSPEAK: The living Anne Frank – Mari Nardolillo Dias
by Mari Nardolillo Dias, EdD – contributing writer It seems like a minute ago that I was cast in the role of Mrs. Van Daan in “The Diary of Anne Frank”. Our director required us to become immersed in our roles and read not just the script and the diary, but the historical articles. Anne…
Read MoreGriefSPEAK: Does knowing the details ease our grief – Mari Nardolillo Dias
by Dr. Mari Nardolillo Dias, contributing writer Grievers often need an explanation of a sudden death. The belief (although perhaps irrational, in many situations) is based on that “knowing of the details” will ease the numbness, the surreality. Help them exhale. Manage their grief. The woman who believes that the “knowing” all the details of…
Read MoreGriefSPEAK: Beyond a pain too beautiful – Mari Nardolillo Dias
By Mari Nardolillo Dias, contributing writer She “wears her pain like diamonds” (Alpha), although she told me that she feels like she is on fire, and drowning, simultaneously. She wears a little black dress interrupted only by the glare of the jewels: the cabochon drops like a single tear from a fragile filigree chain around…
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