Losing a partner can be one of the most devastating griefs one can experience. Surprisingly, it’s quite common that when older adults lose a spouse, they die shortly after. Researchers…
Finding Healing Through Compassion: The Therapeutic Power of Kindness While Grieving
“I don’t know what to do with all the love I have for her. I don’t know where to put it now.” These poignant lines from the 2016 miniseries Fleabag…
A Year After My Mother Passed
Losing a parent hits you in a way that words can hardly define. It’s a deep, all-encompassing ache that settles into your core and steals the breath right from your…
When Kids Grieve: Compassionate Ways to Help Children Cope
The grieving process is complicated for all of us. It can be especially challenging for children to navigate. A multitude of factors can play into your child’s grieving process such…
Ways to Take Care of Yourself While Grieving
Experiencing grief is an inevitable part of our lives, but that doesn’t make this task easy. Grief can be overwhelming, messy, and confusing. We can feel angry, sad, lost, or…
Navigating the Waves of Grief
Grief has often been compared to the sea. Some days the waves crash all around you, requiring you to fight to survive. Other days the sea is choppy, and though…
Navigating Grief in the Workplace: Balancing Professional and Personal Loss
One of the unfortunate realities of losing a loved one is that life around you goes on as normal. While you want to grieve, there are still bills to pay,…
Finding Light in the Darkness: Moments of Joy and Hope Amidst the Stages of Grief
Grief affects everyone differently. For some, it manifests as physical torment such as a deformity or injury; for others, it can be an emotional and spiritual setback such as the…
Why Grief Isn’t Linear: Embracing the Ups and Downs of the Journey
Grief is an incredibly complex series of emotions that one can feel when they have lost a loved one. It is not a simple process that one goes through in…
The Myth of Closure: Why Acceptance Doesn’t Mean ‘Getting Over’ Grief
According to the Swiss-American psychiatrist Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, individuals cope with grief in five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. This theory has since been adapted and now includes seven stages,…
