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207.713.0674 (please leave a message).Our hours will be variable in the foreseeable future. Please check the blog for updates, and feel free to stop in at 189 Main Street in Lewiston for information.
Note: Presently The Warrior Project is only open Tuesday and Saturday evenings when our support groups are available. The entrance is at the back of the building, off the alley on the Park Street side. (189 Main Street is the entrance to Heritage Collectibles, our antiques shop, which is at the intersection of Main & Park streets. 189 B Main Street is entered from the rear of the same building.)- Follow The (Grief) Warrior Project on WordPress.com
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Category Archives: Coping Skills & Resiliency
The More You Hang Out With Mom, The Longer She’ll Live…
Not quite a decade and a half ago, when my daughter was still a teenager, I promised her I’d live to be 97 years old. I no longer remember what prompted the conversation, but that age – 97 – has stuck … Continue reading
Posted in Coping Skills & Resiliency, Loneliness
Tagged children, grandchildren, grandmother, grandparents, Loneliness, lonely, mom, mother, quality of life, Warrior Project
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The Gray Area of Being Suicidal
The following blog from The Mighty (https://themighty.com) describes the passive, habitual, long-term suicidality that too many people live with. The thoughts are always there, lurking in the background. If something negative happens, no matter how minor it is, the immediate … Continue reading
Posted in Coping Skills & Resiliency, Grief, PTSD, Suicide
Tagged passive suicidality, Suicide, thoughts of suicide, Warrior Project
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Choices
I’m a member of several support groups on Facebook for those of us grieving the loss of a spouse, child, parent, or other loved one to suicide. Too many of the members question “Why? Why did s/he do it?” Some … Continue reading
Posted in Coping Skills & Resiliency, Grief, PTSD, Suicide
Tagged alcoholism, chronic pain, Grief, grieving, Suicide, Warrior Project
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Saturday, Dec 31 – Living with Emotional and/or Physical Pain, PTSD and Hopelessness Support Group – at The Warrior Project
Support Group: Living with Emotional and/or Physical Pain and/or PTSD, Complicated by Hopelessness Tonight, from 6:00-7:30 pm. For those who are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired of their emotional, psychic and/or physical pain, and are feeling hopeless … Continue reading
Posted in Coping Skills & Resiliency, PTSD, Support Groups
Tagged alcohol, chronic pain, coping skills, depression, discussing suicide, hiding depression, hiding pain, hopelessness, isolation, lethal, lethality, physical pain, resilience, resiliency, save a life, substance abuse, Suicide, suicide risk factors, support group, support understanding healing, the warrior project, troubled man, Warrior Project
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Surviving Successfully – Developing Healthy Habits
Surviving successfully – whether it’s our grief over the death of someone we love, or our own chronic pain and hopelessness – means taking good care of ourselves even when we don’t want to or when it doesn’t seem to … Continue reading
Resilience in the Face of Extreme Challenge
My life has not been easy. Over the past 60 years, there have been very few periods of time when I haven’t been faced with some kind of major adversity (or too often, several at once): a parent dying when … Continue reading
Posted in Coping Skills & Resiliency
Tagged american psychological association, APA, bounce back, perspective, recover, regroup, resilience
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Breathe
View post on imgur.com There have been too many moments in the past nearly three weeks when I have felt unable to breathe… and moments when it seemed all I was capable of was to breathe. **************** In memory of … Continue reading
