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What's New
♥ The AskMaryMac Facebook page is now up. Go visit, become a friend, and remember to join her favorite cause, The Foundation for Grieving Children which you will find profiled on her page. Please help her achieve our goal of welcoming 10 new Facebook friends to the cause each day.
♥ On Friday, June 12, 2009, MaryMac received The Frank J. O'Hara Award from the University of Scranton, her undergraduate alma mater. The O'Hara Award is presented in recognition of distinguished service in one's field and is the highest award the University bestows on its alumni. As the University is so close to her heart, MaryMac is especially honored to have received this award. She shared a wonderful weekend with her fellow classmates during their reunion weekend.
♥ MaryMac received The Healing Hands Award on Thursday evening, April 30, 2009 in New York City from A Caring Hand, the local center for grieving children in Manhattan for her lifelong work with bereaved children and families. Started by Susan Esposito Lombardo with the help of her mother Stevie and brother Craig, she took finances she received as a direct result of her father's death on 9/11 and began this center. We honor her accomplishments. To learn more about the event, visit here. Additionally, Miss USA, Kristen Dalton of North Carolina joined us at the Gala.
♥ Our National Grief Support Teleseminar is now available to help those grieving a loved one's death. Weekday evenings at 10:00 pm Eastern Time, MaryMac speaks on a different topic surrounding the grieving process. If you do not wish to participate in face-to-face local support groups, are geographically too far from them, or would prefer to learn from the privacy of your own home, this service would work well for you.
♥ Jonathan Vatner's article on Disenfranchised Grief appeared in Oprah Magazine in February's edition. This type of grief concerns those who feel their pain is socially unacceptable, such as the death of a pet, the loss of a married lover, the death of an ex-spouse. Read Mary's comments on this by clicking to the right.
♥ Sign up to receive Mary's article 21 Things You Must Know About The Grieving Process by completing the box to your right. If this is your first deathloss, you especially need to read this so your pain will be validated and you won't think you're going crazy!
♥ MaryMac's Blog- sign up by going there. It will automatically come to your inbox each time she writes on a particular issue of interest to her readers. You will get a unique perspective about how individuals approach the grieving process, as well as how society treats those in pain.
♥ To welcome you into our family, join MaryMac's Grieving Hearts forum through Yahoo Groups. This will put you in touch with other similarly bereaved individuals who support each other day and night. Read, contribute by telling your story, make friends, feel welcomed, feel heard, feel safe.
♥ If you haven't read about the Myths surrounding the Grieving Process, you must. It will clear up many misconceptions about what you may experience on this journey.
In The News
♥ MaryMac comments on the need to remember the pain of military families in her lastest blog "Can't We Bury Our Heroes in Peace?"
