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When Kids Can’t Remember: Am I Like My Daddy?
Back in early April, Eleanor posted about the results of a survey in which people were asked if they would trade a year of their life for one more day with their loved one. My mom, and avid reader of our blog (thanks Mom!) and I had a discussion after that post about her dad ...
Missing Moments & Letter Writing: A Journal Exercise.
I still feel a small tinge of excitement when the mail comes. It’s a fleeting feeling, one left over from the days when receiving a handwritten card or letter was a reasonable expectation. I still hold out a small bit of hope that I’ll find one such envelope sandwiched between Target mailers and credit card ...
Coping with Pregnancy Loss: One Mother’s Perspective
I’d like to welcome Hannah Mirmiran, today’s guest blogger. Hannah Mirmiran is a therapist who found What’s Your Grief a few months ago and has since become a great supporter (Thanks Hannah!). Because of her personal and professional link to grief work as it relates to pregnancy loss, we asked if she might be willing ...
Weekend Edition: May 19th
In truth, I’m running out of creative ways to introduce the ‘Weekend Edition’. You see, it happens every Sunday. This means every 7 days I have to come up with a clever way to tell you the following post contains the distillation of anything timely, topical, or interesting we encountered throughout the past week. Meh…I’ve ...
Sesame Street: talking about grief before it was cool
Sesame Street was talking about grief before it was cool. Okay, so talking about death and grief still may not be cool (wait, do people even say “cool” anymore? Am I showing my age?). Let’s just say this: Sesame Street was tackling this topic long before the internet was full of tools and activities for supporting grieving kids. As early as 1983 ...
Therapist Credentials: What do all those letters mean?
Sometimes I feel like I need a decoder ring to understand therapist credentials. You too? Seriously, who knew? Should you even care about all those letters? Are they important? Is it just a way to make therapists feel important? Good questions! Basically, those letters are just identifiers to let you know what kind of education, ...
