Editor's letter
Welcome to Kota Loss & Compassion Journal
ISSN 1931-342X
2010 Calendar of Events Now Posted!
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From the Editor
Please know that you are not alone. Know that it is okay to feel exactly how you feel in the moment. Grief can be fully felt along side joy. Grouching can happen in the same moment as gratitude. There is no one way, one emotional state, to the exclusion of other emotions or ways of being in the world. Grief knocks us for a loop and puts everything we once knew into a state of flux. It's okay. Give yourself time to questions, re-learn, find your way. It can take a lot of time. This is normal. Give yourself what you need to re-create your world. You have permission to grieve.
If you have a need that feels immediate, please call for help:
hopeline.com at 1-800-442-HOPE
or
suicidepreventionlifeline.org at 1-800-273-TALK
As always be gentle with yourself. Know you are not alone. Nuture your health and self-care.
And many miracles to you,
k-
:
*Breaking the Gender Barrier: effects of grief on marriage & partnership
*Looking for support, resource, education about dealing with life after the death of a child? Check out the Bereavement Conferences listings... soon to be updated for 2010 listings. If you have a 2010 event you'd like to see on this list, please contact Kara.
*We've made updates to our Dictionary of Loss. And we are proud to say the Babies Remembered Magazine featured our Dictionary in their Winter Holidays 2009 issue!
*See the KOTA blog the series Ask Kara... and Creative Art Therapy Prompts.
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Free eBooks
several KotaPress books are now available free in PDF ebook format...
Bone Marrow Boogie by Janie Starr
Mrs. Duck & The Woman, expanded edition, by Kara L.C. Jones
Poetry Anthologies Vol. 2 and Vol. 3
The entire archive of A Different Kind of Parenting
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KOTA: Knowing Ourselves Thru Art - blog submissions
If you have artwork, article, reflection, poem, song, video, book review or anything you'd like to share via the KOTA blog, please send your submissions to editor@kotapress.com for consideration.
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Post Script
Byron Katie Addresses Grief After Death of a Child...
If you've read any of my eNews or zine writings, you know that I find Byron Katie's "The Work" to be an amazing tool for meeting people exactly where they are in the moment! In an eNews from "The Work" there was a link to a YouTube video of Katie working with a man who thinks he's frustrated because his sister won't get over her daughter's death. Wow. How many of us have heard that from friends or family? How many of us have had that thought about ourselves, wondering if the grieving ever ends? Katie leads this gentleman through "The Work" so that he comes to his own experiential epiphany about his neice's death. It's an epiphany I came to about my own son, a conjunction where love is more than the grief, an epiphany that brought me to the idea for "A Different Kind of Parenting" back in 1999. Seeing Byron and this uncle work it through so quickly is very powerful! Check it out at:
byronkatie.com/2007/07/video_my_sister_wont_let_go_of.htm
