Everyone suffers deep losses. But no one suffers our losses. Grief is a life-shattering, profound experience in all of our lives. Yet in its haze, we often don’t understand what […]
Walking With Our Grief
November 7 — Surviving the Holidays, When You’re Supposed To Be Happy…
But you’re not. Surviving the holidays when you’re living with a painful loss is difficult. For anyone living with a painful loss, regardless of your culture or faith, the expectations […]
My Mother’s Grief
At the age of 48, after 28 years of being a high school teacher, a mother and a wife, my mother was alone. She jumped into redecorating our house and […]
WHEN FAMILY TIES ARE BROKEN
Each person in a family may feel shattered when a loved one dies, but death can also shatter a family. People grieve very differently. Some may be highly emotional. Others […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]