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	<title>The Center for Loss, Bereavement and Healing</title>
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	<description>Susan A. Berger, Ed.D., LICSW</description>
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		<title>Widowhood and Sudden Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have four women in my private practice whose husbands died during the past year.  Each of them has a poignant story about the life they had shared together, the way they died, and how they are dealing with their loss.  
The causes of their deaths were all very traumatic. One man died [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanaberger.com/2010/widowhood-and-sudden-death/</link>
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		<title>PETS AS HEALERS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have to be an animal lover to appreciate the wonder of animals and especially our household pets – whatever they are – cats, dogs, hamsters and guinea pigs, ferrets, parrots, canaries and finches.  They bring love and beauty into our lives.  They arouse our senses – touch, scent, sight, hearing &#8212; remind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanaberger.com/2010/pets-as-healers/</link>
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		<title>PETS ARE MORTAL, TOO.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took my beloved Phoenix to the vet this morning. He was due for his annual check-up. He’s fourteen – a handsome blue-eyed Siamese seal point and looks in the peak of health – skin, teeth, ears, fur – all beautiful! 
The vet probed around his soft and supple body and found that his kidneys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanaberger.com/2010/pets-are-mortal-too/</link>
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		<title>THE LIFELONG IMPACT OF A LOVED ONE’S DEATH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I attended a wedding in Asheville, NC.  It was for the daughter of my first cousin, Lenore, who has lived there for thirty years. It was a very happy wedding – aren’t they all? – but especially because it was also a reunion with Lenore after more than fifty years!  Why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanaberger.com/2010/the-lifelong-impact-of-a-loved-one%e2%80%99s-death/</link>
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		<title>WEEKLY REFLECTION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tragedy of the BP oil spill in the Gulf continues to be on the minds of many Americans.  This man-made disaster has challenged the families and businesses whose lives have been disrupted to face their fears of losing everything they have valued – their livelihoods, their homes and businesses, their  unique and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanaberger.com/2010/weekly-reflection/</link>
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		<title>“LOST” AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF  SURVIVOR IDENTITY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I thought about the layers of meaning in the “Lost” series, one of the final questions was whether the survivors felt they belonged on the island.  Many of the survivors wondered why they were there, whether they wanted to stay or leave as fast as they could.  One of the mysteries was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanaberger.com/2010/%e2%80%9clost%e2%80%9d-and-the-transformation-of-survivor-identity/</link>
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		<title>MORTALITY AND MORALITY in “LOST”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most obvious themes in the “LOST” series was the battle between the good guys and the bad guys. The survivors we first met were the good guys (and girls!), though within the group, questions soon arose about who was who.  As the series unfolded, we learned that the island’s inhabitants, “The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanaberger.com/2010/mortality-and-morality-in-%e2%80%9clost%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>DEAD OR ALIVE on “LOST”?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the many questions raised during the series was whether the survivors really were alive or not.  When the series began, we were led to believe that this small band of  diverse characters were survivors of the horrific crash.  As I wrote last week, traumatic events tend to challenge our sense of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanaberger.com/2010/dead-or-alive-on-%e2%80%9clost%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Lost about &#8216;LOST&#8217;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest news stories in recent days has been the final episode of “Lost,” the epic TV show of the past six years.  Infused with symbolism, each weekly story focused on several characters who were struggling with problems in their lives that culminated in the disastrous plane crash that brought them together [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanaberger.com/2010/lost-about-lost/</link>
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		<title>Lost in transition?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a presentation today to a group of professional colleagues interested in updating their knowledge of grief and loss in order to help their clients deal with loss more effectively.  Most people still believe in Dr. Kubler-Ross&#8217;s research that proposed &#8216;five stages of grief&#8217; as the way the dying and the bereaved adjust [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://susanaberger.com/2010/lost-in-transition/</link>
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