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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson

Grief and loss can take a terrible toll on the body. We stop eating, we eat too much, we eat empty calories instead of nourishing our bodies. We can’t sleep, we don’t want to get out of bed, all we do is sleep. We can’t bear to leave the house, much less go to the gym, take the dog for a walk or go for a run.

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Meghann Crane-Russ in Sweat

Woman with blue eyes and dark brown hair and eyebrows holding a piece of dark teal fabric in front of the bottom part of her nose and mouth

EMDR-XYZ? A Introduction to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy

Meghann Crane-Russ, LCSW, PMH-C is a therapist in private practice in California who works with individuals struggling with traumatic grief, medical trauma, parents navigating childhood illness, and bereaved parents. Prior to private practice Meghann was a medical social worker caring for families in hospice, Pediatric Intensive Care Units and Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

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Margo Fowkes in Sweat

Molly and Dan standing with their backs to the camera overlooking the ocean near Santa Monica. Molly is making a muscle with her left arm and carrying a red Nike Stanford backpack. Dan is wearing a green shirt and red baseball cap and is making a muscle with his right arm.

Rising

I want to know what else sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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Margo Fowkes in Sweat

Four canvas beach chairs in the sand with four gulls circling above them. Two are green and white stripped; two are navy blue and white striped

Rest

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief .. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Wendell Berry

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Max Carter II in Sweat

Max and Karen. Karen is on the left wearing a red top with long hair parted on the left side. Max has a pepper and salt handlebar mustache and beard and is wearing a cream colored collared shirt

Love + Grief can = Growth

From a childhood of horses, shooting, tomahawk throwing, mountain man rendezvous, abuse and violence; to a loving marriage, three amazing sons, three truly special granddaughters and great plans for retirement that all came crashing down with one traumatic event; I am finding that there just might be life after loss.

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Tamara Grand in Sweat

Clara taking a picture at Yellowstone of a geothermal pool, pale blue in color with white steam rising from it. Clara is wearing a royal blue long sleeve jacket and a knit cap with v shaped stripes of turquoise, light purple, white and deep purple

Let love be the thread

In 2015, I lost my 13-year-old daughter, Clara, to a combination of cancer and congenital heart disease. In 2016, having never picked up a paint brush before, I began making art.

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Margo Fowkes in Sweat

green and blue gel pens on the right forming a 30 degree angle with the green on the top. On the left, two notebooks. The top one has green stripes in the shape of "v"s.

The Alchemy of Words

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. William H. Gass

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