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How to display compassion

The Best Gift You Can Give Yourself: Forgiveness

Stan Goldberg
December 22, 2016
Aging, Grieving and Recovery, Life
5 Comments
In this holiday season, we are obsessed with what to give people we love. Few of us think about what we can give ourselves. So here is a suggestion....

Letting Go: When Losses are Inevitable

Stan Goldberg
July 29, 2016
Grieving and Recovery
15 Comments
As the Soberanes fire in Carmel, California comes closer to our vacation home, I’m devastated knowing the source of wonderful memories will most...

Brain Cancer: Five Suggestions for Compassionate Caregiving

Stan Goldberg
June 1, 2015
Cancer, Thoughts of the Day
The death of Beau Biden resurrected memories of caring for my brother-in-law who had a form of brain cancer called Glioblastoma. My wife, two adult...
Putting meat on compassion

Compassion and Cancer: Part III-Putting “Meat” on Compassionate Behaviors

Stan Goldberg
February 27, 2015
Cancer, Thoughts of the Day
4 Comments
We want to be helpful to whose living with cancer, but often we don’t know how to transform compassionate intent into helpful behaviors. I...
A goodbye kiss

Thought of the Day: Part 3 Grief Hierarchy- Reducing Grief

Stan Goldberg
January 22, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Thoughts of the Day
2 Comments
In Part 1 of Grief Hierarchy, I presented the idea grief shouldn't be evaluated in terms of whose is greater. In Part 2, I introduced the notion...
Grieving woman

Thought of the Day: Part 2 Grief Hierarchy- The Nature of Grief

Stan Goldberg
January 21, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Thoughts of the Day
2 Comments
THOUGHT OF THE DAY. In the first installment of this series, I presented the idea grief shouldn't be placed on a hierarchy of importance. I...
Grief

Thought of the Day: Part 1 Grief Hierarchy- It Shouldn’t Exist

Stan Goldberg
January 20, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Thoughts of the Day
Everyone has lost a partner, friend, parent, job, ability, pet, or object that created joy. It is something viewed as irreplaceable by the person...
Repeating what doesn't work at stopping violence

A Lesson from Terrorism: Violence and The Grayness of Life

Stan Goldberg
January 16, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Life, Thoughts of the Day
2 Comments
THOUGHT OF THE DAY. Each day’s new violence makes people want to retreat into a 1950’s bomb shelter, or buy a home in a gated and guarded...
Terrorism

Charlie Hebdo Tragedy: Bad Guys Who Were Willing to Act

Stan Goldberg
January 8, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Thoughts of the Day
4 Comments
THOUGHT OF THE DAY. I wrote an article on January 6, 2015 how thoughts are theoretical unless there is a conviction to act (Selma: Why I Write About...
Woman Alone

Grief and Recovery: Whatever Gets You Through the Night

Stan Goldberg
January 2, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Life, Thoughts of the Day
THOUGHT OF THE DAY.  "Whatever Gets You Through the Night," is the title of John Lennon's 1970's hit single. The phrase, credited to Reverend Ike, a...
Compassion and grief

Compassion for Those Left Behind: A Holiday Wish For Those Who Are Grieving

Stan Goldberg
December 23, 2014
Grieving and Recovery, Thoughts of the Day
3 Comments
I received a wonderful LinkedIn invitation to connect this morning from the CEO of After A Loss. It is a Canadian service organization I wish...
Anticipating your death

Anticipating Your Death: A Transformative Exercise

Stan Goldberg
December 4, 2014
End of Life, Thoughts of the Day
2 Comments
In 1998 Steven Levine Wrote “One Year to Live,” where he asked readers to think about what they would do if their death occurred in one year. I...
dying in a Puccini opera

La Bohème: A Old Lesson in Living and Dying

Stan Goldberg
December 3, 2014
End of Life, Thoughts of the Day
7 Comments
Last night with my wife I attended La Boheme, an opera by Puccini showing how little attitudes about dying changed since 1896 when the opera was...
Does personality or illness contribute to caregiver abuse?

When a Friend Wants to Talk About Something Uncomfortable

Stan Goldberg
November 19, 2014
Chronic illness, Thoughts of the Day
06/09/14  A friend I know for more than 20 years asked to speak with me about a life-threatening illness. He didn’t want medical advise. He was...

The Importance of Ritual

Stan Goldberg
November 19, 2014
Grieving and Recovery, Thoughts of the Day
3 Comments
06/08/14  I had the wonderful experience yesterday of performing the marriage service for the daughter of my friend of 45 years. My contribution to...
being contented as one ages

Aging and Identity: Part I-The Perfect Storm

Stan Goldberg
March 12, 2014
Aging
11 Comments
In 2010, I wrote Top 10 Insults for Old People, a tongue-in-cheek article about an insensitive young couple I watched making fun of an older man as...

Now the Bad News:Living With Chronic Illness

Stan Goldberg
June 10, 2013
Chronic illness
18 Comments
I was asked to join Thich Nhat Hanh, Jane Goodall, Norman Fischer, and other writers I have long admired in contributing to Shambhala Sun’s July...
Grieving can be overcome

The Melody of Our Lives: A Lesson in Grieving

Stan Goldberg
March 31, 2013
Grieving and Recovery
18 Comments
Choosing the appropriate instrument to stop grieving When I attended a workshop on the Native American flute (NAF), I didn't realize that the...

Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work: And How to Change It

Stan Goldberg
January 1, 2013
Aging
7 Comments
I look at my aging body and resolve to get in shape, lose weight, eat better, listen without judging, and practice my flute more often. They are the...

Why We Grieve: Sandy Hook and Other Deaths

Stan Goldberg
December 15, 2012
Grieving and Recovery
16 Comments
On news shows and press conferences about the Sandy Hook Elementary School, I repeatedly heard things such as ----Our hearts go out to the...
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