Mary Jane Hurley Brant
Master in Science, Cert. Group Psychotherapist
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"Grief Therapist" Specializing in Loss of a Child Expert
Mary Jane Hurley Brant Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Grief, Loss, Bereavement
- Best Sellers
- When Every Day Matters: A Mother's Memoir on Love, Loss and Life (Simple Abundance Press, Oct. 1, 08) Foreign Rights St. Pauls & Better Yourself Books, Mumbai, India
- Career Focus
- Practicing Psychotherapist and Published Author
- Affiliation
- Open to Hope Foundation,American Group Psychotherapy Asso., Kappa Delta Pi, Cert. Leader Simple Abundance, Expert Grief Author EZineArticles & OpentoHope
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Hello March, Goodbye Fear
Fear is big these days and, like wildfire, it spreads easily and quickly. Fear is a primal emotion; it triggers our reptilian (more primitive) brain to fight or flee. When the reptilian brain is engaged it overrides rationality. Therefore, whatever our fear is about - our safety, our ...
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What it Means to Grieve a Loss
When you open yourself up to love, you open yourself up to loss. When you suffer a loss, you will experience the painful emotion we call grief. It's a natural response to loss yet to the person going through this afflictive emotion, the experience feels overwhelming. I would like to help you understand that going through it means it is a process not an event and, depending on the personal connection you have to the loss, it is very individual.
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Hello March - Goodbye Fear
Fear is big these days and, like wildfire, it spreads easily and quickly. Fear is a primal emotion; it triggers our reptilian (more primitive) brain to fight or flee. When the reptilian brain is engaged it overrides rationality. Therefore, whatever our fear is about - our safety, our ...
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When You Are Grieving, Thanksgiving Day Feels Painful
When you lose someone you love and are grieving, Thanksgiving Day feels burdensome and painful. When a brain tumor took away our precious Katie’s life I dreaded that holiday. For seven years we served no rutabagas because they were Katie’s favorite vegetable. The thought of their seasonal aroma wafting through our home without her in it was too much to bear.
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Grief Has Its Own Timetable
After the death of someone we love our grief experience and overall healing has everything to do with our relationship to the deceased, the intensity and depth of the love we felt for them and our degree of faith in a hereafter. In the immediate aftermath of a person's death, it's hard to breathe and everything hurts. We feel shattered, bewildered and frightened. Sometimes, however, grief shows us its own timetable and can be delayed or complicated. I experienced a long delay in time sequence when my father died. I was thirteen years old; it was the springtime of my life.
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Elizabeth Edwards Embodied The Hero Archetype
Many are mou ing the death of Elizabeth Edwards. I would like to share some thoughts of my own about why we are gripped by her life's story. I believe Elizabeth Edwards embodies two archetypes: the mother and the hero. I will focus on the hero archetype believing it is the more prominent. Just as Odysseus was asked to leave his routine life because something serious occurred, we also may be called to do something heroic.
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The Four Seasons of Marriage
Let's talk about the four seasons of marriage: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Usually we think of marriage as a relationship with our partner but it can also be the state of marriage solely within us called "the inner marriage." The inner marriage is an intimate relationship with ourself. ...
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Happy Family at Holidays? Not So Fast
For many people, family gatherings during the Happy Holidays aren't so happy. While most of us enjoy getting together at holidays, mixed feelings of love, anxiety and confusion often collide. But why in the world would family holidays cause conste ation or anxious feelings? Why would family be other than a supreme source of joy? Are not our families the portals in the storm and our safe refuge? Sadly, not always, and the reason is that some families just aren't safe and their communication style is often a big part of the problem.
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Are You A Hero?
Some say we don't have anymore heroes but I say we do. Let's take a look at what a hero is and decide if you are one. A hero travels the hero's journey. That's when regular people such as you or me are asked to leave our routine life because something serious has occurred and we are asked to do something about it. We are "called to help." We are called to save our king, our country, our friend, or ourself. And because the task is arduous, we really don't want to accept it.
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The 10th Anniversary of 911 - How You Can Help
On September 11, 2011, we remember the 10th anniversary of the day when nearly 3,000 victims were killed after two airliners were crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City, another plane hit the Pentagon and a final plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. This devastating number of causalities included fire fighters, police officers from NYC, the Port Authority, private emergency medical technicians and many paramedics who came to help.
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Five Areas of Healthy Change
There is something wonderfully reflective about a new year: it's another chance to get it right. At the beginning of each calendar year I separate my life into five important areas: physical, emotional, professional, familial and spiritual. I analyze honestly how I'm doing in each category - well, of course I do; it's my business! Today let me help you to analyze your life.
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Synchronicity is More than a Coincidence
Have you ever had an experience where you said, "Wow, what a coincidence." Maybe it was more. Maybe it was a synchronicity. Let me explain through a Jungian perspective. Carl Jung, the prominent Swiss psychiatrist, believed synchronicity meant 'more than a coincidence.' Jung, the thinker and founder of analytical psychology, connected synchronicities to the bigger world: the collective unconscious.
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MaryJaneHurleyBrant.com
Describes Mary Jane Hurley Brant's psychological background, blogs, her interests, numerous published articles, philosophies and how to get in touch with her. Links to her recently published book by Simple Abundance Press on Amazon.
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When Every Day Matters
Facts about Mary Jane Hurley Brant. Interview recordings on radio and internet radio. Newspaper articles. Description of MJ's memoir, When Every Day Matters: A Mother's Memoir on Love, Loss and Life (Simple Abundance Press, Oct. 1, 08) Foreign Rights, St. Paul's, Mumbai, India and chapter samples...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Mary Jane Hurley Brant
"When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe. But...that is not what great ships are built for." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes ~
"All you have is all you need." Sarah Ban Breathnach
"All trials force the question, who are you, really? ....It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.'" Oprah Winfrey
"God tempts us to desire heaven more than earth." Mary Jane Hurley Brant
"The stretch marks to give my life purpose are not just on my body, they are on my soul." Mary Jane Hurley Brant
Contacting Mary Jane Hurley Brant
Mary Jane Hurley Brant can be contacted maryjanebrant@gmail.com
Further information at her website http://www.MJHB.net
Info. about her book at http://www.WhenEveryDayMatters.com
How to get started
There are times in our lives when we need extra support and help sorting through our problems, sorrows, stresses. Sometimes we even need someone to help us identify our feelings. I'm strong in these areas. I can help you find your way again. I am a Human Relations Counselor who specializes in grief and loss with a particular strength in loss of a child by virtue of my own personal loss.
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20 Minute free private consultation by phone or in person - please e-mail me at maryjanebrant@gmail.com