Grief Support Articles & Insights

A Podcast Episode with Juniper Wong On Ambiguous & Ancestral Loss Sometimes, grief is obvious. Other times, we might not recognize our experience as grief until a major life transition shifts our perspective entirely. We are incredibly proud to share that Grounded Grief’s own Juniper Wong, MSW, LICSW, was recently featured on Episode 365 of The Dougy Center’s renowned podcast, Grief Out Loud. In this beautiful, vulnerable conversation with host Jana DeCristofaro, Juniper open

Insights from Alyssa Rose on the Breaking Patterns Podcast | When we think of grief, we often think of an endpoint—a loss we are supposed to "get over" so we can return to our normal lives. But what happens when we shift that perspective? What if, instead of something to outrun, grief is actually a profound reflection of our capacity to love?

When I joined Grounded Grief I was excited to be part of a team looking to expand its support for youth and families in the Portland area. During a flurry of enthusiastic brainstorming, our Founder & Practice Lead, Katherine Hatch, and I landed on what seemed like a simple idea: a monthly blog dedicated to childhood bereavement.

My Updated Coping Plan as of February 2025 I admit that since November, I have coped by keeping my head down, not writing much, frenetically adding activities to the schedule, eating way too much licorice and cheese, and not carving any time to be still, to read, or to look up. Sound familiar? When the Universe Gifts You a Pause Three weeks ago, my 8-year-old fractured her ankle. She earned herself crutches and a boot. I earned myself hours of cancelling all of our activities

With the current horrors and terror in the Middle East, the death and destruction from hurricanes in the Southeast, and countless other world events and states that deserve our attention and action, many of us are asking ourselves a difficult question: Where does my grief fit in when others are suffering so immensely in such extreme ways?