Coping/Grief

Strategies for dealing with the pain that comes with living, prescriptions for managing loss, and lessons on how to move on. Coping lessons can be effective or ineffective. Coping also includes resourcefulness, resilience, and making a way out of no way. “Just pray about it.” Also examines the ways in which grandmothers help grandchildren deal with trauma they’ve experienced. It also explores the ways grandmothers and grandchildren have experienced trauma or inflicted it on each other.

TESTIMONY: JUANITA SIMMONS

By RBGM Staff • Coping/Grief, Testimonies

“I’m a scrub the black off you!”

As a child I spent weekends at my paternal grandmother’s house But not because I wanted to Actually, I dreaded it But, I …
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2 years ago

TESTIMONY: HOWARD PAYTON

By RBGM Staff • Coping/Grief, Testimonies

“The Real Help”

Emma Williams (1912-1998) was my maternal grandmother and her mother was Irish American. You remember the movie “The Help?” Well, that’s what she did for …
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2 years ago

TESTIMONY: REAGAN JACKSON (ELIZABETH JACKSON)

By RBGM Staff • Coping/Grief, Testimonies

2 years ago

TESTIMONY: KATHY B. MCCAMMON

By RBGM Staff • Coping/Grief, Testimonies, Rituals

Black Grandmothers Need Warrior Angels Too

6 years ago

TESTIMONY: ASHA ALI

By RBGM Staff • Gratitude/Happiness, Coping/Grief, Wisdom/Perspectives

AYEEYO MACAAN (SWEET GRANDMOTHER)

“I remember the scorching sun hitting my back while tears strolled down my eyes. I was eight months pregnant and was holding my two boys’ hand …
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