My latest article “Mother’s Day with a Newly Widowed Mother or Father,” has just been published in the April 2010 issue of Living With Loss™ Magazine.

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Family dynamics especially in dysfunctional families can create emotional and physical stresses for all family members. One great resource is the book Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family by Monica McGoldrick and Froma Walsh. This classic book on family dynamcis examines the effect on death on families and offers therapeutic guidelines for improvement. the book discusses spirituality, traumatic deaths and stigmatized losses, and well-known family therapists tell their own storeis of loss and its effects. You can read the entire Family Dynamics section in my book for more resources and ideas..