Archive for Your Evolving Relationship With Grief

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…

There are things that you get over in life. For example a cold, your first breakup, or an argument with…

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