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We think about grief a lot around here... We write about types of grief, grief theory, personal reflections, creative expression for coping with grief, practical ideas for managing grief, and on and on and on. But there are some days that
Back in October, I wrote a post of 64 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Grief. I wrote it on a whim when I was having some writer's block, and never in a million years did we expect
It's not just you dreading the holidays. The holidays after a loss are always hard. Holiday dread (or at least holiday ambivalence) is incredibly common. You have survived other hard days. You will survive this hard day. It might be
Recently, going through some boxes that had moved with me, unopened, over several moves, I found a stack of cards. It was every sympathy card that I received after my father's death. I was only 18 when my dad died,
"Meet them where they're at" is a common (and sound) suggestion for how to support a grieving friend or family member. Apologies if you don't like sentences that end in prepositions, it's just what we're doing today. It's a suggestion I
August 31st is Overdose Awareness Day. With overdoses going up year after year, it's easy to focus on the statistics. In 2019, there were 71,999 overdose deaths... We see the numbers everywhere. But those numbers, they are people. 71,999 people.
Now, we know we are a little late to the game on writing a post on Coco, seeing as it came out last November. To be fair, we did do a podcast episode called Grief Themes in Pixar's Coco. That
Today is Children's Grief Awareness Day! No worries if you have never heard of it, we are here to keep you in the know about this sort of thing. If you visit the Children's Grief Awareness Day website, you can get
Grief myths . . . they drive me crazy. There are just so many of them, they come out in so many ways, and they make our grief so much more difficult. Friends and family have unrealistic expectations about what