![]() ![]() All the time she was walking, she was crying. She wrapped her sorrow around her like it was a shawl and began walking. ![]() She didn’t want to talk to anyone, didn’t want to be around anyone. The caterpillar woman mourned the loss of her husband. Long and long ago, there were two caterpillar people who loved each other very much, but as with all living things, one of them died. He is a New York Times and USA Today Best Selling Author. His book, Coyote Still Going: Native American Legends and Contemporary Stories, received the 2014 BP Readers Choice Award for Short Story Collections and Anthologies. Trained as a traditional Native American Storyteller, Ty Nolan studied with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in working with the various aspects of Death and Dying. Widow As Butterfly also examines the unfortunate similarities of what is now happening with the Ebola Virus and the fear-crazed days of the early AIDS epidemic. ![]() It has been shared nationally and internationally with mental health professionals and hospice programs. The latter was done for the American Psychological Association and the APA’s Project HOPE. It combines traditional Native American legends and ceremonies dealing with grief and bereavement, systemic family therapy approaches of healing, and a research project on the coping skills of those who lost loved ones to AIDS. Widow As Butterfly (Dealing with Grief and Loss) is an outgrowth of a keynote presentation for the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam and over thirty years of working with bereaved families and children. ![]()
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