Archive for Secondary Loss

It bends my mind to consider how universal and common the experience of losing a loved one is. How could…

I wish I could say I remember the last Christmas my mother was alive. I should remember. I should have…

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

Identity is a funny thing.  The way we think of ourselves, how we define ourselves, the story we tell ourselves…

I just realized my birthday is tomorrow. Seriously, I totally forgot. Although I’m always bad with dates, truthfully I think…

Any loss can trigger a domino effect of secondary losses that one needs to adjust to. In the case of a death…

When we experience death the grief associated with the loss itself is excruciating.  There are the obvious things we “expect”…