Understanding The Two-Track Model of Bereavement
Today we want to fill you in on the Two-Track Model of Bereavement. Why, you ask? Because we love talking …
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Grief and Regrief (aka growing up with a grief monster)
So there‘s this thing called grief. You’ve probably heard of it. You probably wish you hadn’t heard of it. There …
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Ongoing Relationships With Those who Have Died
I cling to scraps of my mother. I’ll take anything I can get. I’ve extracted all that I can from my …
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Grief and Gender: Intuitive and Instrumental Grief
We are usually pretty hesitant to even hint at categorizing, labeling or classifying grief. There are so many different grief …
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Grief Theory 101: The Dual Process Model of Grief
Those of you who love love LOVE WYG’s grief theory posts have probably been a little frustrated lately. After scouring …
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Grief Work: the grief theory of Erich Lindemann
If you have been following along with our series on different grief theories you may be wondering what the rhyme …
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16 Tips for Continuing Bonds with People We’ve Lost
With decades of grief theory that focused on closure, acceptance, and moving on, it is no wonder that so many …
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Continuing Bonds: Shifting the Grief Paradigm
Last week we got a request for the next installment in our series on different grief theories. I have to …
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Before the Five Stages were the FOUR Stages of Grief
As you may or may not be aware, we’ve been covering some grief theory stuff around here for the past …
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The 8 Horcruxes of Grief: The Harry Potter Grief Model
Disclaimer: The grief model outlined below is completely unsubstantiated. The opinions expressed by the author in no way reflect the …
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Rando’s Six R Processes of Mourning
If you follow along here regularly you know we have been featuring different grief theories every few weeks. Wait, don’t …
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Worden’s Four Tasks of Mourning
We try to keep a good mix here on WYG of concrete, creative, practical, and outside-the-box thinking about grief. We …
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