Welcome~
Welcome to the Disaster Grief and Recovery Blog. My name is Dr. Terrie Modesto and I’ll be your principal blogger for this site. Thank you for visiting.
If you are experiencing disaster grief and recovery issues, I hope that you will find this blog f help and support. Please let me know if there are topics that you would like for me to address it the very near future.
How do people get over disasters?
Numerous people have been asking me questions about disaster grief recently. The biggest question asked is “How do people get over disasters as Hurricane Ike, Tropical Storm Hanna etc. and all the others?” I wish there was a simple and quick answer or a list of things that could be done. It would be nice if there were words that could be magically said that instantly cure the grief, loss, pain and anguish of a devastating event like a hurricane or flood.
Those who help with disaster grief and disaster recovery
When a disaster happens, there are a number of people who have wonderful hearts and want to help. Without such caring hands and kinds gestures of empathy and love disaster victims would have an even harder time their disaster recovery.
There are also a number of people who are not trained or well train in disaster grief support and grief counseling services that mean well and who come to the aid of those in need and are not equipped to meet the numerous needs and concerns of the disaster victims. It is important to offer care and support to those who hurt but the vulnerability of such grief stricken individuals also need the well trained both professional and volunteer to assist in many disaster grief situations.
Others come to the side of grief stricken families for all kinds of reasons and motives. Many of those motives are good and notable yet the information and services offered are not sound based in well established professional grief and bereavement practices and support care. For others, the reasons for helping are less noble and honorable. There are those who have little or no qualified training disaster grief services who are looking to make quick money off the heavy laden hearts of those who grieve and over whelmed by the tasks of emotional, physical and financial disaster recovery.
No quick way to get over disaster grief
What is known is that there are no quick or sure-fire ways that can help a person through the tears and sorrow related to disaster grief. No one, no matter how powerful they are or how much they want to remove the pain of disaster grief are ever able to take away the sorrow and loss of a such a catastrophic event. Only time, compassion, hope and tears can alleviate some of the most painful sting of a disaster.
Even with that all that said, there are ways to help in the emotional journey and process of disaster recovery. On this blog we will be looking at the numerous issues that confront an individual, a family, a business and even a community that faces the pain of and the emotional grief work of disaster recovery. We’ll also examine how people grieve after a disaster. No two people grieve the exact same way over the exact same disaster.
Intention for Disaster Grief and Recovery Blog
Just like grief recovery itself, this blog will be a journey filled most likely with most every possible emotion from sadness, tears, fear, sorrow, anger, frustration, to moments of laughter, hope and success in various tasks of grief work and disaster recovery. These are just some of the emotions one can experience while in the midst of a disaster event
There is so much that confronts a person when dealing with a disaster. This is a place that can be an emotional storm shelter and support niche out of the raging chaos of disaster grief. Here is a place where individuals from all kinds of disasters and all walks of life from individual house fires to mass disaster fatalities can read about various issues and ideas concerning different aspects of disaster grief recovery and to also share their stories, ideas, suggestions and incident concerning their disaster experiences.
Disaster grief will have a significant influence in how individuals, families and communities will reconstruct their lives in their disaster recovery journey. Needless to say it is important to have the best possible disaster grief and support information and care possible. That is the intention of this blog. Disaster Greif and Recovery Blog will give the highest quality information and resources that we possibly can.
From time to time recognized and established thanatologist, grief counselors and grief therapists as well as others in the related fields of disaster grief care services will also be invited to post informative and helpful blog articles on this site as well. Thanatologist and grief specialist who wish to post articles on this blog are invited to contact me at the email listed to discuss this possibility further.
About Dr. Terrie Modesto
So who is Dr. Terrie Modesto? Why does she think that she can offer well informed disaster grief and recovery to all those who experience grief and loss issues caused by a natural disaster or human inflicted terrorist attack?
Those are good questions that you SHOULD ask yourself as you read this introductory blog. All who are dealing with disaster grief personally or know someone who is dealing with disaster grief and recovery need to ensure that the information receive is sound and accurate.
To answer that question: I am a ‘thanatologist’ a specialist in dying, death, bereavement and grief. I earned my PhD in Thanatology from The Union Institute and University in Cincinnati Ohio in 2001 and have been a full member of the Association of Death Education And Counseling (ADEC) since 1997 which is the leading professional association internationally in the specific area of death education and counseling.
I specialize in disaster grief and bereavement care support for individuals and communities. So far I have written over 60 books, academic courses and training manuals and lecture extensively nationally and internationally. In 1999 I was appointed Chief Thanatologist and evaluator for the OCEMEX 2000 critical incident exercise Ft. Walden, FL involving national and regional emergency response agencies and organizations. This was the first time that a critical incident thanatologist was assigned to an emergency response exercise associated with unconventional concepts in weapons of mass destruction.
Personally I have lived through my Grandmother’s flooded home, tornados, blizzards and hurricanes including Hurricane Isabel that flooded out part of my local community I was just moving into. I have also worked with those affected in numerous natural disaster situations and human afflicted terrorist events.
Please join me at my website Train For A Hurricane http://trainforahurricane.com
and Blog Hurricane Preparedness
http://hurricane-prepared-ness.blogspot.com/
COMMENTS WELCOMED!
Please share your thoughts, disaster grief and recovery tips and stories here on this blog.
All I ask is that everyone be respectful and sensitive of each other and that identifying information about a person who is not the author be limited to protect their privacy.
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