Dr. Delores D. Gulledge, Ph.D, FT, CCR
Learning to manage grief and to dance after the mourning requires wholehearted, intentional effort. (Based on Psalm 30:11)
“Reconstruction of life after loss is more than coping; it is gathering the shattered and scattered pieces of life to make meaning from the loss experience.”
- Dr. Delores Gulledge
Dr. Gulledge, Thanatologist, is an educator and grief specialist. She encourages the use of expressive arts as a method of intervention for intense emotions often associated with loss and grief.
She established the grief practice, Arts As Medicine and ICARE Resources, Inc. a crisis and grief training and response organization.
"The scientific study of death, its causes and phenomena.” - Oxford English Dictionary
Thanatology. (2006). In The encyclopedia of aging.
Learning to manage grief and to dance after the mourning requires wholehearted, intentional effort. (Based on Psalm 30:11)
“Reconstruction of life after loss is more than coping; it is gathering the shattered and scattered pieces of life to make meaning from the loss experience.”
- Dr. Delores Gulledge
Elegantly weaving scholarly study with her own narrative, Dr. Gulledge encourages us not just to survive the grief experience, but to actually thrive as a result of doing the “hard work” of grief. Loss and grief affect every aspect of life – the way we think, the way we feel, and our physical, spiritual, and relational well-being. Learning to acknowledge and express the change in our lives, and to release the painful experience, is instrumental in re-creating life after loss.
Dr. Dee is intimately acquainted with grief. The dawning of her life dance, explored in this book, was born out of her search for meaning in the death of her daughter. The age-old questions of the grief-stricken lay strewn around her like shards of shattered pottery: Who am I now? Why her, and not me? What am I supposed to do with this apparently empty life? Will I ever emerge from this darkness? How? Even if I do, will I recognize myself or my world? Where is the miracle I expected?
“While others sidestep the issues of unanswered sorrow and grief, Dee intentionally walks into the middle of it. She takes you by the hand and exposes a larger and deeper world in which we all must travel sooner or later. She allows you to stand with her in that ‘in-between’ place where you look toward heaven with hands outstretched while life is not what you want it to be. The struggle, pain, honesty and eventual road to survival are documented with the hope that others might find their way too.”
-Dr. Ed Carney, Senior Pastor, Riverland Hills Baptist Church, Irmo, S.C. and Trustee Anderson University
In Loving Memory of Melanie Delores Gulledge
July 28, 1973 - August 29, 1990
"I'm Dancing and I'm Free"
Given by: Mr. Van S. Gulledge- Trustee & Dr. Delores Dalrymple Gulledge
Bronze Sculpture
by: Mark Hopkins
Please come by the Thrift Library to view this inspirational sculpture located at at the foot of the stairs next to the Front Desk.
Psychology of Grief and the Miracle of a Re-created Life
Based on the Book: A Mourning Miracle ~ the Dawning of my Dance
Lecturer and Author: Dr. Delores Gulledge, presented February 7, 2014
Sponsored by the Thrift Library, Psychology Club, CHR Department, Counseling Center
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Autographed copies will be on sale before and after the lecture.