| Peggy Waterfall |
| Launch Coverage Mind Body Spirit Radio KAOI Maui, Hawaii June 12, 2008 Launch Press Release PR News Now October 27, 2005 PRWeb.com emediawire release 10/27/05 Author Spotlight Self-Publisher News Vol. 2 No. 2 February 2006 SPN |
| Published Articles by Peggy Waterfall Grief Digest, April 2006 "Permission to Grieve Freely" Grief Digest, July 2006 "The Need for Responsibility-Free Time" |
| 2009 Events April 15-18, 2009 Attendees: Receive a free copy of the book 31st Annual ADEC Conference Living Beyond Loss: Mending Body, Mind and Spirit Hyatt Regency Dallas 2008 Events June 12, 2008 "Mind Body Spirit" Inspirational Talk Radio Guest Author 2007 Events April 14, 2007 Author's Reception ADEC Conference, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Events March 29-April 2, 2006 Meet the Author ADEC Conference, Tampa, FL |
About the Author
| Peggy Waterfall was once in the corporate world of high tech. After she experienced the loss of 3 loved ones, she moved to Hawaii, where she started a jewelry business, put together a new life and is now happily remarried. She is the author of two books for grieving individuals: Rainbows and Rain: Finding Comfort in Times of Loss, October 2005, and GRIEF QUEST, March 2006. |
A Message from the Author:
In our culture, we are a grief repressed
society. When we avoid discussing
death , when we look the other way
when death is in the news, when we put
off making a will or an estate plan, when
we find reasons not to visit a terminally
ill friend, we are unintentionally setting
ourselves up for the nastiest wake-up
call of our lives. Death happens.
Unfortunately, whether expected or
unexpected, it happens. And when it
happens to someone dear to us, our
minds, bodies and souls go through a
series of reactions which are as natural
as breathing itself. But since no one
ever TALKS about it, we think there is
something inherently wrong (or weak)
about us, so we bury the emotions, and
suffer in silence.
There is a not nearly enough material
written on this subject by people who
have experienced significant loss. In
doing research for this idea, I concluded
that the need for such a book is clear,
the subject timeless.
Why me? Why do I feel I know enough
to write books about grieving?
society. When we avoid discussing
death , when we look the other way
when death is in the news, when we put
off making a will or an estate plan, when
we find reasons not to visit a terminally
ill friend, we are unintentionally setting
ourselves up for the nastiest wake-up
call of our lives. Death happens.
Unfortunately, whether expected or
unexpected, it happens. And when it
happens to someone dear to us, our
minds, bodies and souls go through a
series of reactions which are as natural
as breathing itself. But since no one
ever TALKS about it, we think there is
something inherently wrong (or weak)
about us, so we bury the emotions, and
suffer in silence.
There is a not nearly enough material
written on this subject by people who
have experienced significant loss. In
doing research for this idea, I concluded
that the need for such a book is clear,
the subject timeless.
Why me? Why do I feel I know enough
to write books about grieving?
www.adultsiblinggrief.com
Adult Sibling Grief supports
those who have suffered the
loss of an adult sibling
Adult Sibling Grief supports
those who have suffered the
loss of an adult sibling
Includes information
about hospice care and
bereavement support for
families using hospice
about hospice care and
bereavement support for
families using hospice
| Light a candle or develop a memorial website to honor your loved one |
Recommended Resources
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After all, I’m not a social worker, making my living helping bereaved families at the
local hospice. I’m not a trained psychologist or medical professional of any kind.
I don’t run the nearby grief support group and I’ve never written a book before.
But I have experienced great loss, and I survived. The analogies I speak about in
this book are drawn from my own personal experience. In the span of just over a
year, I lost my father, an exceptionally healthy 77 year old man with everything to
live for (he’d been married to his new wife just 3 weeks before he dropped dead
of heatstroke), then Jack, the man I loved and shared my life with for nearly 2
decades, who fought the good fight before succumbing to colon cancer, then my
mother, who was diagnosed with bladder cancer a week after Jack died, and
passed away in hospice care herself, just three months later. This series of death
blows rocked me to the core and threatened to finish me off as well. The decision
to write these books came out of my own sorrowful longing for answers and
peace in the face of unspeakable sadness and bewildering emotional turmoil.
I was fortunate to have a gifted and compassionate bereavement counselor to
guide me through the difficult process of my “grief work” (and believe me, done
correctly, grieving is very hard work). I've always felt that the ultimate credit for my
recovery is hers. Peggy (we found we had lots in common, including our name) is
a licensed clinical social worker whose specialty is bereavement counseling for
hospice. I had the unfortunate distinction of being the only client she had ever had
who was admitting a loved one for hospice care twice in just 3 months’ time.
While I don’t pretend to have “seen it all”, or even experienced the most tragic of
losses, I do hope that my personal stories will lend credibility and reality to a very
sensitive and difficult topic. In the end, I hope that when a grief stricken reader
scans the bookshelves or the Internet, as I did, searching for a book that “gets it”,
they will know in an instant that Rainbows and Rain is the book they have been
searching for, and that somebody truly understands what they are going through.
Aloha, Peggy
local hospice. I’m not a trained psychologist or medical professional of any kind.
I don’t run the nearby grief support group and I’ve never written a book before.
But I have experienced great loss, and I survived. The analogies I speak about in
this book are drawn from my own personal experience. In the span of just over a
year, I lost my father, an exceptionally healthy 77 year old man with everything to
live for (he’d been married to his new wife just 3 weeks before he dropped dead
of heatstroke), then Jack, the man I loved and shared my life with for nearly 2
decades, who fought the good fight before succumbing to colon cancer, then my
mother, who was diagnosed with bladder cancer a week after Jack died, and
passed away in hospice care herself, just three months later. This series of death
blows rocked me to the core and threatened to finish me off as well. The decision
to write these books came out of my own sorrowful longing for answers and
peace in the face of unspeakable sadness and bewildering emotional turmoil.
I was fortunate to have a gifted and compassionate bereavement counselor to
guide me through the difficult process of my “grief work” (and believe me, done
correctly, grieving is very hard work). I've always felt that the ultimate credit for my
recovery is hers. Peggy (we found we had lots in common, including our name) is
a licensed clinical social worker whose specialty is bereavement counseling for
hospice. I had the unfortunate distinction of being the only client she had ever had
who was admitting a loved one for hospice care twice in just 3 months’ time.
While I don’t pretend to have “seen it all”, or even experienced the most tragic of
losses, I do hope that my personal stories will lend credibility and reality to a very
sensitive and difficult topic. In the end, I hope that when a grief stricken reader
scans the bookshelves or the Internet, as I did, searching for a book that “gets it”,
they will know in an instant that Rainbows and Rain is the book they have been
searching for, and that somebody truly understands what they are going through.
Aloha, Peggy
www.centering.org
Comprehensive collection of
resources for grieving children
and adults. Publishers of Grief
Digest magazine.
Comprehensive collection of
resources for grieving children
and adults. Publishers of Grief
Digest magazine.
Photo by David Sinson, NOAA
Copyright 2005-2011 by Peggy Waterfall
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