https://drsusanblock.com Dr. Susan Block's Journal Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:43:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://drsusanblock.com/max-collage-stroke-death https://drsusanblock.com/max-collage-stroke-death#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:39:05 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=175832 by Dr. Susan Block. Now tumbling down the hill of time in an avalanche of emotion is the first anniversary of Max’s death. It’s been a year of immeasurable loss, bottomless grief, sleepless nights, vivid memories, strange and somewhat comforting rituals – ashes to ashes, stroke to smoke – Bonoboville gatherings and art therapy since […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/max-collage-stroke-death/feed 22 https://drsusanblock.com/cremating-max https://drsusanblock.com/cremating-max#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:32:52 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=175202 by Dr. Susan Block. We cremated my beloved Capt’n Max’s beautiful body last week. I was not ready for that. I wasn’t (and still am not) ready for anything – certainly not for life without my darling husband of 33 years, a friend of 40, my witness, my partner, my great love, my Prince Maximillian […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/cremating-max/feed 50 https://drsusanblock.com/birthday-healing https://drsusanblock.com/birthday-healing#comments Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:45:34 +0000 https://drsusanblock.com/?p=111941   by Dr. Susan Block.   Capt’n Max had a stroke. I wish it could say that’s a joke. Or the good kind of stroke – a stroke of luck, a soft caress, a pleasure stroke. But no, unfortunately, Max had a stroke of seismic – or “ischemic” – pain… which is, in a way, a very […]]]> https://drsusanblock.com/birthday-healing/feed 42