It’s everywhere, it’s in the air. We don’t know quite what it is. Sadness? Disappointment? Pain? People have asked, do the stages apply to this type of loss? As...
“If I don’t make it I want you to know that I lived a happy … life with you and would never have traded it for all the riches...
I don’t think there is anything that can prepare you to lose a parent. It is a larger blow in adulthood I believe, because you are at the point...
A troubling percentage of adults believe that miscarriages are rare and caused by a woman’s negative lifestyle choices, stress or physical activity, according to a study published in the...
When I went through a breakup a few years ago, what helped me the most wasn’t ice cream or vodka. It was spinning. When I awoke before dawn during...
People believe that grief is an obstacle when it’s anything, but instead, grieving is the pilgrimage by which you create the conditions such that you are able to face...
You spend some time curled into tiny spaces. They are useful for this. Big, open rooms give you too much space for your wild thoughts to tangle and knot....
The process of mourning and grieving is hard for everyone, but there are elements of the losing a loved one than can feel especially difficult when you’re an introvert....
I lost my daughter a year and half ago, and I still consider my grief to be very new. But every time I meet up with a friend or...
Six years inside complicated grief taught me many things. Five of them I can put into words and onto paper. I have a feeling I will be learning from...