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TIM MADIGAN: Anything Mentionable — ‘I Don’t Know What To Do’: A Coronavirus Conversation With Grief Therapist Dr. Patrick O’Malley

Posted on May 8, 2020May 28, 2020 by Tim Madigan ,Leave a Comment

As doctors, nurses and first responders have tended to the physical devastation wrought by the pandemic, my friend, the Fort Worth, Texas, grief therapist Dr. Patrick O’Malley, and his colleagues have been working to help us cope with the profound emotional, psychological and spiritual challenges of this moment. I was Patrick’s co-author of the 2017 book “Getting Grief Right: Finding …

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TIM MADIGAN: Anything Mentionable — Write This Down

Posted on March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 by Tim Madigan ,Leave a Comment

A few days ago, I opened a purple, college-ruled composition notebook, noted the date on the first page, March 23, 2020, and launched into what I am calling The Coronavirus Journal. “What else to call it?” I began. “We are living through one of the most cataclysmic moments in the history of man, or so it seems. Could the wackiest …

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TIM MADIGAN: Anything Mentionable — A Surprising Hunger …

Posted on August 30, 2018August 30, 2018 by Tim Madigan

It’s an experience most can relate to, especially if we are of a certain age. The call comes, or the text or the email, and we find ourselves on the way to the home of a friend or loved one who has just suffered a loss, or to a visitation or a funeral. Then comes an almost universal anxiety and …

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TIM MADIGAN: Anything Mentionable — A Grieving Son Named Scott And An Unlikely Turning Point

Posted on June 20, 2017June 20, 2017 by Tim Madigan

By the mid-1980s, my friend and co-author, Patrick O’Malley, had started to suspect that the stages of grief were a harmful fallacy. But as a grieving father himself, and a therapist who worked with the bereaved, what would take their place? An excerpt from our new book, “Getting Grief Right: Finding Your Story of Love in the Sorrow of Loss.” The …

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TIM MADIGAN: Anything Mentionable — The Therapist Grieves

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Tim Madigan

As I’ve written here before, I think my collaboration with therapist Patrick O’Malley on his new book is as important as any work I’ve done in a 40-year career. It is our belief and fervent hope that the book, “Getting Grief Right: Finding Your Story of Love in the Sorrow of Loss,” will bring comfort to untold numbers of bereaved people, those whose pain …

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TIM MADIGAN: Anything Mentionable — A Coming Comfort To Those Who Grieve

Posted on May 5, 2017May 5, 2017 by Tim Madigan

Is there anyone out there who is grieving? Or maybe the better question is this: Is there anyone out there who is not — to some degree, about some loss? That’s why I believe my latest book might be the most impactful of my career. The title is “Getting Grief Right: Finding Your Story of Love in the Sorrow of Loss,” …