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Jessie Haviland lives in Baltimore, MD with her husband, cat and two dogs. She’s a lover of secondhand shopping, former…

Well-known developmental psychologists like Erik Erickson and Jean Piaget say that our ability to trust begins to develop in infancy.…

One of my favorite grief memoirs is Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala. Fair warning: this is not a book for the…

Do complicated hardships require equally big and complex ways to cope?  Not always, especially not with something like grief. Grief…

I had the most disturbing dream when my mom was sick. She was sleeping in the big reclining chair that…

I’m operating under the influence of fall. It’s a subtle disorientation that knocks me off kilter just enough for things…

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

If you're still in the first year after a loss, I imagine the title of this article alone might have…

If ever there were a time you'd expect to cry, it's after the death of a loved one or other…