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...

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...

It’s a thing in grief. In fact, most people, no matter if they are atheist or deeply religious, ache to remain connected with the person...

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...

Young children teach us adults so much about grief. As long as children are provided the space to feel their emotions (and yes, that can...

Grief comes in waves is an age-old adage and from what I’ve come to observe is this is still truth. In its natural, uninterrupted state,...

We grieve for what we hoped could be, for what we hoped was possible. Grief arises with force when our hope for what was possible is no...

Our grief is deeply shaped by the nature of our relationship to the person or situation we are grieving. In fact, as hard as it might be...

Along with a proper grief name tag to wear, I’ve always wanted to have a grief-appropriate prescription pad. In acute grief, which is the...

Grief is the ultimate swim upstream. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I learned from an early age about the wonders of salmon. What...