Archive for Is this Normal?

Grief is complex. I think we all can agree on this. Grief twists, turns, changes, and evolves. A number of…

It sounds almost absurd to ask, doesn't it? And yet the moment people experience a loss, one of the first…

I have a baby. She's ten months old. She was a late-in-life baby, so her only siblings—both sisters—are 10 and…

"When will I ever use this?" is a timeless refrain. Kids have been saying it since the invention of geometry. And,…

Hello to the newly bereaved. I'm sorry to meet you here in the place where loved ones leave you —…

Written and shared with us by our grief-friend, Cara Jeanne. Sharing with all of you, because we have a feeling…

Never have I ever heard a bereaved person exclaim, "Grief is just as expected it to be!" Grief is full…

When we wrote about why, for some, grief feels worse in the morning, we knew that we would immediately have…

In the early days of grief, every day can feel like you were crushed by steam roller – morning, noon,…