Tag: family
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Reentry or Acceptance: Is moving forward after loss about reentry or acceptance?

It has been five years since Scott’s mother was killed, and two years since my spiritual mother passed, but the hole in my heart remains. I have accepted they are gone, yet I still struggle with how they left our lives with this hole, the gaps we had between visits, the calls, the letters, and…
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Is it a Meltdown?

I see many tantrums in the residential where I work. These tantrums are designed to receive something like a prize or attention, or to avoid something like a consequence. Children who have tantrums begin to “turn it up” when they cannot have the item or thing they want. They may begin throwing things and become…
