Day 40: Morale Boost I’ve noticed the heaviness of my posts over the last few weeks. Even though this is reflective of a grief process,...

Day 38: Grieving and Living Many of my clients arrive worried they are either 1) not getting grief right or not grieving enough or 2) not...

Day 37: The Mornings In grief, I often hear about that moment one wakes up to a pleasant fuzziness or comforting unknowing. This...

Day 36: Guilt in Grief There are many ways we humans complicate our grief experience, and one that I see often is in our tendency to have...

Day 35: Grief PSA Knowing what to say and even more importantly, what not to say, to grieving people can be tricky. Even as a grief...

Day 34: Grief is Physical I have been searching for years for a worthy description of the physicality of grief. I have finally found one...

Day 33: Simply put, grieving at each developmental stage means grieving at each life transition. Such transitions might include marriage,...

Day 32: Where does my grief belong? With the current horrors and terror in Afghanistan, I have been asking myself a question that I hear...

Day 31: Something to Hold On To The reality of deep grief is that it often leaves us in a surreal fog, in which the world is...

Day 30: In grief, the unknown evolves Living during a pandemic has highlighted for me how much we humans don’t know, and how we have...

Day 29: Grief Bursts What distinguishes grief from depression and anxiety (and truly any other experience) is the oscillating ups and...

Day 27: Grief Terminology When we have a have a name for something, it can help provide a sense of control, especially in a time of...

Day 26: We Don’t Get Over Grief While this may sound terrifying and pessimistic, the adage that we don’t get over grief is a truth I...

Grief naturally places us in the rawness of life, begging us to reorient, reprioritize, and discern what fits and what does not. I...

Fatigue in grief is like no other tiredness. It sits deep in the bones. I believe it is not the same as depression’s downward pull...

Since grief does not show up as an outward, physical wound, grieving isn’t allowed the same grace or time that other physical ailments...

In grief, words fail us. Often. They can fail us when you are the one grieving, as the intensity of grief is both so unique AND like...

Grief is hard to define and describe because it is directly shaped by our relationship to what or who we are grieving. And our...

Day 19: Grief is not a Disorder Grief is many things AND it is not a disorder. Grief is our innate biology working to navigate life...