Archive for Your Evolving Relationship With Grief

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

I look at grief as more of a frienemy than anything else. To be honest, it's been this way since…

My mother died twelve years ago on October 23rd and, though my actual memories of the days and weeks that…

"Together we will cry and face fear and grief. I will want to take away your pain, but instead I…

What is grief in relation to love? Quite often I think they're the same thing. When people think of love…

So there‘s this thing called grief.  You’ve probably heard of it.  You probably wish you hadn’t heard of it.  There…

It's disgusting out today. Yesterday I sat at my window and watched charming white snowflakes fall gently from the sky...…

Litsa and I have long had a bee in our bonnet over the rhetoric around grief self-help.  Not all grief…

This is my grief monster. He was born the day my mother died. I was really frightened of him at first…