Coping with Grief Over the Holidays

Joliet Area Community Hospice offers two-part class entitled Help with the Holidays

For most of us, the holidays are a time of joy, time filled with family and friends, good food and often, presents. It is a time of year we look forward to. For someone who has lost a loved one, though, it can be a time they dread. It's okay to say no to parties or even to events that you always attended because you are just not feeling up to it. "(Those grieving) need to say what do you need what is it you would like from us," Mary Ann Burns, Joliet Area Community Hospice Bereavement Counselor said. The person who is grieving needs to be the one to decide what he or she wants to do. For the other family members who know someone is grieving, though, it is appropriate to ask. Families have to decide what the new normal is now that a loved …

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