Grief and Loss
Ordinary Magic: Rituals for Grief and Gratitude
Magic: the power to apparently influence the course of events by using mysterious powers. Did you believe in magic when you were little? Did you ever stop? When we were […]
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Ongoing Study of Grief
Why should we turn an eye to grief as a formal study? Grief is the most universal human experience, and we live with it every day in many forms. You’ll […]
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Rising From the Ashes
Today, in our country we have several obstacles to natural grieving. First, we have distanced ourselves from it enough that we don’t recognize it. Because we can’t name it easily, […]
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10 things NOT to say to someone who is grieving
People often say careless or ignorant things that they hope will help people in loss, but instead they make it harder for those who are grieving to feel cared for […]
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Death Cafés bring surprising lightness to heavy topic
What is a Death Café? I’m honored to be quoted in the Considerable.com article, How to die the way you want, by Randi Hutter Epstein. What is a death café, you ask? Death […]
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Beyond Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
In 1969, psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross published her seminal book On Death and Dying. She brought into popular consciousness the model of the Five Stages of Grief, gleaned from conversations she […]
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Why Study Grief?
Why don’t we understand grief? Why isn’t it easy to just admit we’re grieving and help each other? Today we often don’t recognize it for what it is – even […]
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After the Holidays
How do you cope after the holidays? When the din and press of the holidays have died down, sometimes it’s wonderful to just collapse on the couch and have the […]
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Coping with the Holidays – checklist
Although the holidays can demand a lot of us, we do have the right to make decisions about how we cope with those demands. We can decide what things we’ll […]
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