Author: Cathy Carphin
Understanding grief, a healthy response to trauma
Let’s Talk Together about grief. First, let me share some of my own experience with you. In the last eight years I have been through a sequence of challenging life situations from home care and subsequent death of my husband, cancer, COVID and retirement. My response to radical events like these is to take action.…
Ladies Fancy Shawl Dance
Stories for June – Canada’s National Indigenous History Month INTRODUCTION This article was posted on Facebook in March 2024. It is reproduced here by the kind permission of Drum Circle Harmony. I wanted to share it with you because it is a beautiful tale about the grief journey from the deep sadness of the loss…
Breathe
The Road To Recovery And Healing A number of years ago I was doing resistance training. The key thing that the instructor emphasized was to breathe consistently throughout the activity. My physiotherapist taught me proper breathing when doing my muscle-relaxing stretches. Works for me! “Don’t Hold Your Breath” Whether straining to push or pull a weight,…
1001 Little Things
In the months following the death of my husband, I continued to go to the office. It helped normalize my life in the wake of probably THE most devasting experience of my life. I was numb to the grief that was building inside me. As I drove to and from work and around town to…