It’s a grizzly bear that knocks us off our feet. If we fight back, it claws us across the chest. Grief is a wolf that stands on our throat and stares in our eyes as it devours our heart. It’s a
A good therapist is a wonderful thing: They know that there is nothing about you that's wrong. They know their role is to listen and validate, to come up alongside you and provide support.
Grief is one of the few truly universal experiences. Regardless of how lucky we may be in other areas of life, all of us lose a loved one eventually, and while everyone handles it in different ways, it helps to know that others have gone through…
Rather than try to compare or minimize a loss, let's recognize that each person's grief is his or her own. Let's be that listening ear when someone wants to talk about the pain of loss. Let's validate feelings, rather than minimizing them.
For those who are struggling with infertility, pregnancy loss or child loss, Mother's Day can be a complicated holiday.
"This too shall pass."
"I'm like an alcoholic who doesn't drink anything but worst case scenarios..." In the aftermath of trauma, Emily Rapp struggles to give up being "on call" for grief.
Wounds do not heal simply with the passing of time, but time does give us the tools to endure them. Omid Safi on learning to live with the unimaginable.
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." ~ Carl Jung
The process of mourning and grieving is hard for everyone, but there are elements of the losing a loved one than can feel especially difficult when you're an introvert.
A guide for managers and coworkers on navigating the tough transitions stemming from loss.
We should stop hiding pain and emotion in public and accept that we cannot always be OK, writes opinions columnist Kelsey Connors.
If we don’t let our feelings in, they find ways to invade. They become bad dreams, broken relationships, physical or psychological symptoms.
What to Do if You're Still GrievingThe author of Getting Grief Right—a grief counselor and grieving father of a child who died in infancy—shares his strategy for surviving deep, intimate loss.
An excerpt from Option B, a new book about grief, loss and joy, by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and psychologist Adam Grant
When a colleague returns to work after suffering the loss of a loved one, it’s hard to draw the line between what’s helpful and supportive, and what puts your coworker in an uncomfortable position. Saying the wrong thing can be painful, but simply ignoring the issue isn’t the solution. In order to support a grieving colleague, you need to strike the right balance between doing, offering specific tasks that you can help with, and being, showing empathy. In order to position your support correctly, keep in mind these six don’ts when reaching out to a grieving coworker: don’t ask questions; don’t compare experiences; don’t rush your support; don’t track their progress; don’t expect it to be one and done; and most importantly, don’t ignore them.
"I live my sadness every day, but I don't resent it any more," Zelda Williams recently wrote in an Instagram post about depression and grieving her father, the late Robin Williams. "I do it now so that the wonderful moments of joy I do find are not…
After my friend’s suicide, I realized something: We ask people to reach out. But we never explain how.
I'm listening to a man tell a story. A woman he knows was in a devastating car accident, and now she lives in a state of near-permanent pain; a paraplegic, many of her hopes stolen.I've heard it a million times before, but it never stops shocking me: He tells her that he thinks the tragedy had led t...
