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Things a Family Should Always Look for in a Great Cemetery
Locating a cemetery near Broken Arrow, OK is easy. There are going to be plenty of options in the area when you’re in the market for one. But locating a great cemetery? That can be a bit more challenging since not all cemeteries are going to fit this description. One of the best ways to…
Read MoreHow to Find the Best Cemetery for a Loved One’s Burial Services
Finding a cemetery in Tulsa, OK to lend a hand with a loved one’s burial services shouldn’t be too difficult to do. There are lots of options scattered throughout the area. But when you’re in the process of laying a loved one to rest, you shouldn’t simply pick the first cemetery you can find and…
Read MoreHelping Your Family Heal After Stillbirth
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Few events in life bring about such warm and wonderful feelings of anticipation as the announcement of a pregnancy. As soon as you and your family learned you were expecting, you naturally began to have hopes and dreams for the future. These hopes and dreams take on a life of…
Read MoreHelping Yourself Heal When an Adult Sibling Dies
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. “To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.” —Clara…
Read MoreMustering the Courage to Mourn
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. “Whatever you do, you need courage.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Loss brings uninvited pain into our lives. In opening to the presence of the pain of your loss, in acknowledging the inevitability of the pain, in being willing to gently embrace the pain, you demonstrate the courage to honor the…
Read MoreLove and Grief: In Communion and Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. “We are all mirrors unto one another. Look into me and you will find something of yourself as I will of you.” — Walter Rinder Love is a sacred partnership of communion with another human being. You take each other in, and even when you are apart, you are…
Read MoreHelping Yourself Heal When Someone Loved Dies
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Someone You Love Has Died You are now faced with the difficult, but important, need to mourn. Mourning is the open expression of your thoughts and feelings regarding the death and the person who has died. It is an essential part of healing. You are beginning a journey that is…
Read MoreWill I Befriend My Feelings Or Will I Deny, Repress, Or Inhibit Them?
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. “I don’t have to go in search of the pain of grief—it finds me. It’s when I deny or insulate myself from the pain of the loss that I shut down. Ironically, it is in being open to the pain that I move through it to renewed living.” —Alan…
Read MoreYou Must Go Backward Before You Can Go Forward
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. A paradox is a seemingly self-contradictory statement or situation that is in fact often true. The paradox of mourning we will consider together in this article might, at first glance, seem self-contradictory, but as I will reveal, it is actually a forgotten Truth with a capital T. It’s a…
Read MoreHelping Yourself Heal When Your Spouse Dies
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Few events in life are as painful as the death of your spouse. You may be uncertain you will survive this overwhelming loss. At times, you may be uncertain you even have the energy or desire to try to heal. You are beginning a journey that is often frightening, overwhelming…
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