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April 29, 2007
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Association of Prof. Chaplains

January 30, 2007 Westside Council of Bereavement Facilitators 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Susan Whitmore presented and showed Portraits of Hope. For more information, please contact Susan Whitmore at swhitmore@griefHaven.org. April 26, 2007 Association of Professional Chaplains 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. 2007 Conference Burlingame, California Susan Whitmore will be co-presenting at this special and unique four-hour workshop for chaplains and hospice caregivers from all over the world. Her co-presenter, Reverend Pamela Washburn, is the Director of Spiritual Care at Cottage Health Systems in Santa Barbara, California. For more information regarding this event, please contact the Association of Professional Chaplains, 1701 E. Woodfield Road, Suite 400, Schaumburg, IL 60173 (847) 240-1014. Their web site is www.professionalchaplains.org. April 29, 2007 Association of Professional Chaplains 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 2007 Conference Burlingame, California Susan Whitmore will be co-presenting at this 1.5-hour presentation for chaplains and hospice caregivers from all over the world. Her […]
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May 27, 2020
Self Acceptance

Self Acceptance Is The Key To Happiness

Happiness is more than just a feeling; it is something we can all practise on a daily basis. But people are better at some 'happy habits' than others. In fact, the one habit that corresponds most closely with us being satisfied with our lives overall -- self-acceptance -- is often the one we practise least. 5,000 people surveyed by the charity Action for Happiness, in collaboration with Do Something Different, rated themselves between 1 and 10 on ten habits identified from the latest scientific research as being key to happiness.
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February 19, 2017
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Interview With Marc Klaas, Founder KlaasKids

President and Founder, KlaasKids Foundation, Inc. and Beyond Missing Interviewed by Susan Whitmore S: Please tell us a little about you and Polly. M: My name is Marc Klaas, and I am the father of Polly Klaas. Polly was 12 years old when, on the evening of October 1, 1993, a bearded stranger wielding a knife broke into her room while she was having a slumber party with two of her girlfriends. He threatened the girls’ lives and told them that if they made a noise he would slit their throats. And then he kidnapped my daughter. We spent 65 days searching for Polly before learning that a recidivist violent offender, only recently paroled, had kidnapped and murdered her within two hours of her abduction. He told his cell mates before getting out of prison that he would avoid AIDS by getting “a young one.” That was his form of “safe […]
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November 14, 2017
Dick Riordan

Interview With Former Mayor of Los Angeles, Richard Riordan

Richard Riordan Interviewed by Susan Whitmore My name is Dick Riordan , and my former wife, Genie, and I had five children—four daughters and a son. My son was killed in a scuba diving accident picking up shellfish to cook for his friends 21 years ago, and my daughter died of a heart attack when she was 19 about 19 years ago. My daughter’s name is Carol, and my son’s name is Billy. Billy loved to cook. So he would go out in the early mornings in a shallow bay and pick up shellfish to take home and cook for his friends. One morning 21 years ago, he went out in this bay, in about 15 or 20 feet of water, and he died there. Even so, we buried Billy at sea because he wanted to have his body recycled if anything ever happened to him. Of course, we never […]
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May 25, 2020
When My Dog Died

When My Dog Died

No one ever tells you that begging for a dog as an 11-year-old could affect you deeply as an adult. They just make you promise to clean up after the animal. But when Rainbow was 10, my parents moved abroad, and she came to live with me in New York. At first, she couldn’t figure out how to pee on concrete; she cried a lot, so I cried a lot. Eventually we learned how to communicate, even as she lost her vision, her hearing, her continence.
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December 16, 2022
Remembering Loved Ones

Ideas for Remembering Loved Ones

For many of you, planning for the upcoming holiday brings a sense of excitement and is something you look forward to. For others, not so much, and that includes those who have had a significant person in their lives die—a person whose presence is so blatantly missing that the holidays become a time to "get through" rather than a time to enjoy.
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September 20, 2022
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Children School Shootings

Sadly, school shootings, such as the one in Uvalde, Texas, are not a rarity here in the United States. Neither are mass shootings in other public places, such as entertainment venues and grocery stores. When they occur, news about them blankets news media and social media, and often features in conversations among friends and family. Children hear about these tragedies.
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