Trouble with the positives?

  • Birth of a child
  • Promotion
  • Graduation
  • Retirement
  • Marriage
  • Sudden success/wealth
  • Recognition/fame

Facing a major life change?

  • A death
  • Divorce
  • Bankruptcy
  • Illness
  • Disability
  • Trauma

Are you asking:

Are you depressed? Or is it grief?

How do I master grief?

Who holds your hope?

What is the place of spirituality in grief?

What can help?

  • Books/literature
  • Movies
  • Music
  • Creative expression
  • Restorative justice
  • Inspiring stories



Another place for validation and support: www.integraonline.org

Seasons Press and Integra are companion organizations both promoting a greating understanding of the transformative potential inherent in normal, healthy grieving.

Seasons Press is the personal website of John Schneider, PhD. John is a retired professor of Psychiatry from Michigan State Univesity who has devoted much of his career to study the grieving process and how it differs from depression and traumatization. John is a clinical psychologist with a special focus on people with physical illness and facing other major life transitions such as divorce, dying and retirement, to name a few. In private practice for the past ten years after an early retirment, he consults with various organizations around the world, and lectures and conducts workshops. For more information about John, click on John M. Schneider, PHD.

 Integra is a non profit organization John helped to create along with Susan Zimmerman, its current president. Integra’s mission is to

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