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Grief Chambers

Day 57: How Does a Therapist Grieve #9? I let myself fall apart in the car and on the airplane. Cars and planes can be grief...

Anything Could Happen

Day 43: Anything Could Happen When our people die, anything could happen. In early grief, I am finding a pattern of death awareness to...

Grief & the Pause

Day 40: Grief and the Pause In the grief world, there is a lot of talk about how important it is to FEEL the grief, to have it, to be...

Grief as Stubbornly Suspenseful

Day 39: Grief as stubbornly suspenseful The maddening and confusing and relentless and stubborn nature of grief is something I hear about...

Grief is a Learning Process

Day 38: Grief is a Learning Process Learning can be brutally hard. Think of how difficult it can be to learn a new language, a new sport,...

A Grief-Shattered Heart

Day 71: Anatomy of Grief-Shattered Heart In this work, I continue to be floored by how we can be at once shattered and whole, raw and...

We Miss in the Everyday Moments

Day 69: We miss people in the everyday moments We miss people in the everyday life moments, in the ordinary, not in the extraordinary. We...

"Positive" and "Negative" in Grief

Day 67: “Positive” & “Negative” in Grief Let’s be careful about the use of the words “positive” and “negative” to describe our own...

Grief is its own Entity

Day 68: Grief is its own entity. And it is not depression. I can get on a soapbox about how different grief and depression are. I admit...

Meaning & Sense & Grief

Day 67: A Hard Truth in Grief Finding meaning in the how or the when or even the fact that someone died is something our brains are...

Grief: It's bigger than you

Day 65: “It’s bigger than you.” Elizabeth Gilbert’s words on grief after losing her beloved partner come to mind, especially for those...

Grief is a Way Forward

Day 64: Grief is a Way Forward When I meet with folks, I inform them that my primary jobs are 1) to make sure that I assist them in...

Rituals: A Way to Hold On

Day 63: Rituals: A Way to Hold On Sometimes we just need something to hold on to, to get to the next day, the next hour, the next...

Grief Changes Us

Day 61: Grief Changes Us Megan O’Rourke wrote ‘The Long Goodbye’ which tells the story of the loss of her mom. As a poet, she accesses...

Anger is Part of Grief

Day 60: Truth: Anger is Part of Grief Anger shows up as a wise adaptation to loss. It is a fierce protector. It is active when all else...

Grief is Not the Problem

Day 59: Grief is Not the Problem When I have my initial calls with folks looking for grief support, I try to be very clear about my...

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