Life is Loss: To Live is to Lose
In 1800, nearly half of all children died before age 5.Let that sink in for a moment. I remember when…
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Feeling Pressure to Grow from Grief
- General
- Litsa
If you've internalized values like personal growth, productivity, and self-improvement as your measures of self-worth, that doesn't suddenly disappear after…
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The Reality of Growth and Grief: where the hell is my rainbow?
- Understanding Grief
- Litsa Williams
If you regularly read WYG you might have noticed that Eleanor and I can be a wee bit pessimistic from time to…
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The Truth about Posttraumatic Growth After Loss
- Coping with Grief
- For Professionals
- Understanding Grief
- Eleanor Haley
Litsa and I have long had a bee in our bonnet over the rhetoric around grief self-help. Not all grief…
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Growth from Grief (and a Journaling Exercise)
- Coping with Grief
- Creative Coping
- Eleanor Haley
There is a lot of pain in this world. This is a truth that’s impossible to ignore. It’s everywhere—in our…
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