Day 6: The True Waves of Grief = The Layered Waves of Grief This metaphor for grief—waves and oscillation from moments of ok-ness to ...

Day 5: Grief can Bring Great Clarity I’ve had some people tell me that when they look back to the initial months of their grief, while...

Day 5: In Grief, Feeling More Raw When You Have More Capacity is a Thing One of the most maddening and disappointing aspects of grief is...

Day 4: The Symbiotic Relationship of Grief and Trauma There are a myriad of opinions about whether grief and trauma are separate ...

Day 3: A Trauma Response I am nervous that the word “trauma” may be on a path towards dilution. This word is used more casually than...

Day 2: Hope is Heavy to Hold When You’re Grieving We aren’t supposed to be able to hold hope alone in challenging times. Truly, we...

Day 1: Want your Child to become an Emotionally Healthy Adult? I’ve noticed many weigh in on what it means to raise “emotionally healthy”...

Day 100b: 100-Day-Project. Check. Thank you. For following. For reading. For the encouragement to keep this up. This 100-day project was...

Day100a: Healing in Grief is not a Matter of Time The brutal truth in grief is that the widely accepted definitions of healing, such as...

Day 99: Holiday Reminders I wish this could be standard holiday etiquette. And this is certainly not comprehensive. What would your list...

Day 98: Grief is an Act of Expansion You Never Wanted The more years I do this work, my conceptualization of what grief truly is and...

Day 97: This Holiday Season is Different I believe that the pandemic has extended the experience of acute grief, that initial phase of...

Day 96: No Time for Bullshit in Grief When socializing was more of the norm, my job was a reliable conversation stopper. And still, many...

Day 95: Sometimes the Lead-Up is Worse As the holidays are now upon us, we are entering the week when plans solidify (if they haven’t...

Day 94: Grief is a Learning Process Grief is many things. And yet what I see so often is how much learning is involved. And let’s be...

Day 93: Let’s Expand the Definition of Grief I find that much of my early work with people is helping them expand their own definitions...

Day 92: Grief Begs for Quiet, Stillness When a loss occurs, there is typically an outreach, even a deluge (if you’re lucky) of support....

Day 91: Antidepressants Will Not Medicate Grief I have come to believe that when properly dosed, antidepressant medication DOES NOT...

Day 90: Let’s get this straight I’m happy to report that it is less often that I hear from clients that someone has offered up the...

Day 89: Healing in Grief is Confusing Many of my clients report that their experience of grief is not like anything else—that it is...