The animal folk have always shown us the way. If you've ever lived with a dog during a difficult season, you know they have an uncanny ability to sense when something shifts in the household. They feel the tension, the sadness, the weight of what we're carrying—even when we think we're hiding it well.

We're thrilled to announce the launch of Moving Grief Together—an outdoor walking support group starting January 2nd at Meadowbrook Local Park in Maryland. If grief has been sitting heavy lately—from loss, change, loneliness, or simply carrying too much—you're invited to walk with us.

The holidays are here. And for many of us, they're not exactly merry and bright. Maybe you're grieving a loss. Maybe you're navigating a breakup. Maybe you're just feeling the weight of loneliness or the general global angst that seems to be everywhere right now. Whatever it is, you're carrying something heavy into this season, and the pressure to be joyful about it all can feel suffocating. So we're doing something a little different this year.

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?

One of the hardest things about grief is how it can feel like it’s getting worse, seemingly out of the blue—a rawness that strikes a few months out.