Archive for Dealing with Friends and Family

Reading that title, you might be thinking that there are approximately a zillion reasons grief makes you angry. And you’d…

Boundaries can be helpful in grief, but they can also just be helpful during the complicated and draining holiday season.…

Dear close friend who disappeared after someone I love died, Hey there.  It's been a while since we talked, a…

Confession: Sometimes, I'm kind of a jerk. Actually, I've been an especially large mess during some of the years you've…

Today we want to talk about people who are maybe not so good for you in your grief or, oh…

Part of my self-care regime is reading The Onion articles whenever possible.  I don't know what it is, their headlines just…

Ahhhh, family. Family, family, family. Family can be great, but that's not what this post is about.  This post is…

A couple years ago (almost exactly two years ago, in fact), the mom of one of my best friends died. …

64 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Grief, #57: Grief re-writes your address book. I lost my dad…