We grieve for what we hoped could be, for what we hoped was possible. Grief arises with force when our hope for what was possible is no...

Our grief is deeply shaped by the nature of our relationship to the person or situation we are grieving. In fact, as hard as it might be...

Along with a proper grief name tag to wear, I’ve always wanted to have a grief-appropriate prescription pad. In acute grief, which is the...

Grief is the ultimate swim upstream. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I learned from an early age about the wonders of salmon. What...

C.S. Lewis wrote A Grief Observed after his own experience of losing his partner. This small book has always stuck with me. His...

I wish any of us could actually know and prepare for our grief journey. Here are some truths I’ve come to believe about grief timelines:...

In grief, we are growing in two [seemingly] opposite directions. One growth direction is towards accessing our own strength and power and...

When we are grieving, we tend to remember how we felt in someone’s presence (if we are seen and heard OR not) instead of the exact words...

Disloyalty in grief is that experience of feeling badly for feeling ok. It tends to happen in those moments that you chuckle at something...