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HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART
Healing After a Loved One?s Suicide
Host: Dr. Gloria Horsley
With guest: Bill Ritter
August 10, 2006

G: Hello. I?m Dr. Gloria Horsley with my co-host Dr. Heidi Horsley. Each week, we welcome you to Healing the Grieving Heart, a show of hope and renewal for those who have suffered the loss of a child or a sibling and as always our message is others have been there before you and made it and you will, too. Well, Heid, this morning I wanted to discuss a couple of emails that we got. One of them was regarding our show a couple of weeks ago with Coralease Ruff. It?s from Barbara, and Barbara said that the show was going to be on health and Coralease is an expert in that area, taught at Howard University and does a bereavement course on health, and Barbara complained a bit saying that we didn?t spend enough time on health. I really appreciate these emails and comments because it does help us direct the show. We will try to have somebody else on, maybe Coralease again, and we discussed this with Coralease so, Heid, do you have any comments on that? Read the rest of this entry »

HEALING THE GRIEVING HEART
Surviving a Sibling
Host: Dr. Gloria Horsley
With guest: Scott Mastley
August 3, 2006

G: Hello. I’m Dr. Gloria Horsley with my co-host Dr. Heidi Horsley. Each week, we welcome you to Healing the Grieving Heart, a show of hope and renewal for those who have suffered the loss of a child or a sibling or a grandchild and the message for us is always that others have been there before you and made it and so can you. You do not walk alone. Well, good morning, Heidi. I thought we’d start the morning by covering a couple of emails. One of the things I wanted to say before the show starts, if any of you have been really frustrated because the archives aren?t on our website, www.healingthegrievingheart.org, I noticed last night that we’d lost the link for the archives and that should be up this afternoon. Also, Heidi and I wanted to tell you that if you?d like to listen to this show live, you can go to our website, www.healingthegrievingheart.org, and hit on live show and the show will be replayed at 3:00 East Coast time if you want to hear it today. Otherwise, it?ll be archived by probably tomorrow. So I wanted to start out with an email from Barbara from Brooklyn, New York. Barbara says:
Drs. Horsley,
Thanks so much for your show. I listen weekly and am making my way through the archives. I agreed with your guest last week.
And our guest last week was Dr. Coralease Ruff and we talked about health.
I agreed with your guest last week saying you need to take care of your health. Two years ago when my daughter died in an auto accident, my husband, who is in the police department, was first on the scene.
Wow, Heidi, that must have been incredible.
H: Yeah, wow, that’s awful.
He got such heart pain that they thought he was having a heart attack. His doctor actually said that you could die of a broken heart.
H: Wow. I was wondering about that because I’ve heard that before and I didn?t know if that was an urban myth or if it was true.
G: Yeah. There was actually an article in the New York Times about three or four weeks ago, I think, saying you can die of a broken heart and talking about a similar situation to this so our listeners might want to take a look at that and certainly you need to take care of your health. Barbara goes on to say:
I?m trying to walk and eat right in order to take care of my family. Thank you again for your show and for reminding me to take care of myself.
Well, thank you, Barbara, that’s great, and that certainly is something we need to do is to take care of ourselves.
H: And like you said, yes, we have to watch for those signs.
G: Okay, could you do the second email, Heidi?
H: Okay, the second one, and you know what, Scott, feel free to come in if you have any advice for the second email Read the rest of this entry »