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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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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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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It's Your Life, So Follow Your Dreams
It was 1992. Four years had lapsed since my daughter Katie's diagnosis of a brain tumor. She was now healthy and back working in New York City. Because my mate al stress levels were greatly relaxed, my professional dreams began to reemerge. It was time to think about making them come true.
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Summer Love
We simply cannot get enough love, especially summer love. Maybe it's because summer love feels friendlier when we are walking to the beach carrying a chair, a favorite book and an iPod to keep our own delicious thoughts company. Seriously, don't your olfactory sensibilities become completely engaged with fresh suntan lotion? The smell of Coppertone and I'm 13 all over again.
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Happy Mother's Day to Every "Good-Enough" Mother
For many of us, Mother's Day stirs something deeply loving. For others, ambivalent feelings abide. You see, after thirty-three years in the counseling field and drying the tears off many faces, I can accurately say that not every woman feels she had, was or is the "good-enough mother."
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Autumn Calls Us To Change
In my younger days I thought I could control change. I learned, and not quickly I would add, that no one can control or stop change anymore than one can hold back the tides or halt the autumn leaves transforming from green to gold. This brings me to today's topic of change and how to understand it and accept its daily invitation. First, change is inevitable. Think of those individuals you know who, despite painful adversity, have been able to go on even after their world changed and fell down around them. These individuals accept - sometimes hourly - the inescapable reality of change.
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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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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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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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Six Steps for Managing Job Search Stress
Millions of people have lost their jobs in this economy so let's talk about managing the stress of a job search. Anyone who is in this situation, or loves someone who is, might consider these six suggestions…. Step One - Do not internalize a job loss or job search into your personal identity. Whether you are a new graduate or a semi-retired person whose 401K was cut in half this year, you are not in this situation because of your personal failure. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in May, 2009 that 7.0 million people have been out of work since December 2007 in the US alone.
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College Bound Blues for Parents
It's August, let's talk about your child leaving for college. Yes, I know it brings up many feelings. One minute you're laughing with them at a Blue Light Special, the next minute you're dissolving into tears. The thing about being a parent is that when we finally master one stage of development with our kids, they catapult into the next. Leaving for college is a big transition for a family. For many parents it feels like a little death. In a way it is - death to the original family construct.
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My Grandmother: A Model for Positive Psychology
My grandmom was a model for positive psychology and she taught me a valuable lesson: it’s easier catching bees with honey than with vinegar. I was given the name “Mary” because of her and her devotion to The Blessed Mother. My mother, father, brother, sister and I lived upstairs in her roomy old Victorian house until she died in 1957. She did not die alone - her ten living children surrounded her bedside praying the rosary. In my Catholic upbringing, Grandmom’s death was referred to as “a happy death” because she was in the state of grace when God took her back.
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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