Archive for Your Evolving Relationship With Grief

What does "being okay" after loss mean to you? Not happy or healed, not successful or self-actualized — but okay.…

The finality of death is one of the harshest and most severe realities one must come to terms with after…

Before discussing grief years later, we need to get on the same page about a few things first. Most importantly,…

The year after my mother's death, I lived mostly an "in spite of" life. I got up and went to…

Not too terribly long ago I was working with a bereaved dad. I was the second grief therapist he'd seen;…

For a decade, I've been saying to any griever who would listen - "When someone you love dies, you grieve…

Dr. Lois Tonkin, in her 1996 article Growing Around Grief: another way of looking at grief and recovery, tells the…

The anniversary of my mother's death, or her "deathiversary", is closing in on me. I usually count on the foliage…

After some discussion with our insightful readers, we're adding a brief preface to this article.  We feel it's important to…