Archive for Disenfranchised Loss

I want to petition the internet, nay, the world, to stop defining, measuring, or comparing people's grief based on title…

As a funeral director, you can find yourself facing both sides of suicide: a family left to grieve the loss…

Disenfranchised grief is a term coined by one of our favorite grief researchers, Ken Doka, about twenty years ago. He…

When you saw the title of this post my guess is you had one of two reactions: Ah, finally WYG…

We got an email last week from someone who lost a friend.  Not just any friend died, her best friend…

There are posts that we write here on WYG that travel like wildfire.  In the course of a day or…

At work the other day I found myself in a conversation about drug overdoses and, as usual, I disturbed more…

Working in grief and mental health we see the complexity of suicide: the need for prevention and mental health treatment,…

Saturday was International Overdose Awareness Day (I am sure you got that memo if you follow us on social media,…