GriefSPEAK: Retirement. Fear of freedom – Mari Nardolillo Dias

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by Dr. Mari Nardolillo Dias, contributing writer Retirement: “Act of retreating, act of falling back.” act of withdrawing into seclusion”  Why does everyone congratulate us when we announce our retirement? For many, it is bitter, for some sweet, and for others, bittersweet. I find retirement sad, a sign that I am winding down in life.…

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Meet Dr. Mari Nardolillo Dias, “The Grief Whisperer”, on January 12th

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by Nancy Thomas Join Dr. Mari Nardollllo Dias for an informal conversation about grief. If you believe in signs… If you  feel overwhelmed, directionless, confused or stuck in your grief… If you or someone you know has experienced the loss of a spouse, parent, sibling, child…  If your loss is due to a sudden, traumatic…

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GriefSPEAK: Life of sighs – Mari Nardolillo Dias

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By: Mari Nardolillo Dias, contributing writer “There are few things in life more telling than a sigh. There is the sigh of resignation or relief, the sigh of exasperation or exhaustion, the sigh of deep peace and relaxation, the dizzy sigh of inebriated love, and the sigh that lies at the bottom of the well…

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GriefSPEAK:  Beauty too beautiful – Mari Nardolillo Dias

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GriefSPEAK:  – Mari Nardolillo Dias By: Dr. Mari Nardolillo Dias  “I embrace moments while simultaneously grieving the thought that they will soon be over.” (Dias, 2022)  Botticelli died in 1510 and yet his art can literally still make someone have a heart attack more than 500 years later. “Can art be so beautiful that it…

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GriefSPEAK: Beyond a pain too beautiful – Mari Nardolillo Dias

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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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GriefSPEAK: Losing your human – Mari Nardolillo Dias

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by Mari Nardolillo Dias, contributing writer Tilly – I know you know that I’m a grief therapy dog. You might remember me running the fence with you at the dog park.  We never spent a lot of time hanging out one-on-one because you mostly sat at your human’s feet or under the bench where he always…

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GriefSPEAK: Ambedo, one with a teardrop – Mari Nardolillo Dias

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By: Mari Nardolillo Dias  Updated May 17, 2024 Ambedo:  “a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details…briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake…”  Erin often experiences ambedo yet finds it disturbing. Rachel experiences ambedo on a weekly basis…

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