Archive for Non-death Loss

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

I remember exactly where I was when I first heard the Jason Isbell song Elephant. It was late at night.…

From a very young age, we begin to develop expectations about the world around us. Our brains create rules to…

Life is constantly changing, sometimes subtly and slowly, and sometimes on a seismic scale. As the world around us evolves,…

We are so glad to welcome a guest author, grief counselor and former hospice chaplain, Rev. Anne-Marie Zanzal. At fifty…

Breaking up is really hard to do. Most of us know what it's like to suffer a broken heart. Many of us…

The loss of a living friend can be incredibly difficult. The degree to which conflicts and disagreements bend or break…

The death of a loved one isn't just one single earth-shattering loss. In reality, it's a tremendous loss, followed by…

A while ago, we wrote an article on 'ambiguous grief' aka grieving someone who is still alive. To keep it…