Chaplain Arthur - Grief Recovery Specialist

29/06/2025

What NOT today to someone who is grieving.

22/06/2025

Grief does not come with an expiration date. Yet many people feel confused or even ashamed when the pain of a loss lingers for months, years, or even decades. If you have ever wondered why you still feel the weight of a loss that happened long ago, you are not alone, and you are not doing anything wrong.

Read more: griefrecoverymethod.com/blog/2025/06/what-if-youre-still-grieving-years-later

20/06/2025

Consoling someone in grief can prove difficult when words feel insufficient or are hard to find.

Still, there are ways to express your sympathy and support, especially when you are unable to attend the funeral.

Let this guide help you craft a heartfelt and sincere condolence letter to offer solace to a loved one.

Thanks to: Michigan Memorial

11/06/2025

Morphine doesn’t kill people. Pain does.
But in hospice, fear often wins.

Families whisper:
“Won’t it speed things up?”
“Can’t we wait until the very end?”
“I don’t want them to sleep through the goodbye.”

We get it. You’re scared. You love them.
But withholding morphine doesn’t preserve life.
It prolongs suffering.

Here’s the truth:

• The standard starting dose of liquid morphine (Roxanol) is 5mg—roughly equivalent in effect to one tablet of Norco 5/325 (hydrocodone + acetaminophen).
• Sublingual morphine begins working in 15–30 minutes, peaks at ~1 hour, and lasts 2–4 hours.
• When appropriately dosed and titrated, morphine rarely causes respiratory depression—even in frail, terminal patients. In one study of 27,000, the risk was

03/06/2025

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03/06/2025

Contact me to learn the skills to contextualize your thinking which aids in processing grief.

03/06/2025

I may never go viral, be monetized, or have a million followers but I am succeeding in helping people dealing with their grief. Had a great class today!

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30/04/2025

Feeling like you don’t belong anywhere is in grief. If you feel disconnected from others, from yourself, from the world in general, if you don’t recognize your life anymore — you are not alone. Grief is a profoundly disorienting and isolating experience.⁣
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After a life-altering loss, the seemingly ordered universe is split open into a big yawning chasm, and no reality makes sense anymore. For a time, we are unhinged from the cultural forms we’ve laid down in human life. Things we agree to as a culture — like pieces of paper as fair trade for groceries, or lunchtime happening at noon — are revealed as empty symbols, unrelated to anything intrinsically...real.⁣
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Grief strips life down to its irreducible essentials. In that visceral state, your distance from the “normal” world can feel insurmountable. There’s an uncomfortable truth here: you are not like other people. Not right now.⁣
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The world has been split open. Things “ordinary,” non-grieving people do as a matter of course will not always make sense, or feel meaningful, to you. Things you enjoyed doing Before may now feel hollow, or make you feel worse because they highlight how much your life has changed.⁣
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Whether it lasts a moment, or feels interminable, confusion and disconnection is very common. It does tend to ebb and flow, in relation to other stressors in your life, emotionally heavy tasks you have to complete, and how well you’re eating, staying hydrated, and sleeping.⁣
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This is why we go back to tending your physical body as bedrock: supporting the body can help reduce the signs of grief’s effects on your mind. If you’d like some help with this, ⁣there are tools and exercises in my guided journal, , for keeping track of & tending your physical self-care. Find it wherever you buy books.⁣⁣⁣⁣

More info & ordering links at https://refugeingrief.com/books
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How about you? Do you now or have you felt completely disconnected from your own life and/or the rest of the world? Let us know in the comments.
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26/04/2025

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22/04/2025

Today's group grief recovery class was very productive. Our brave students faced the unresolved emotions from their loss and are ready to write it down. Send me a message if you'd like to be in the next class!

22/04/2025

With The Grief Recovery Method – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉