Waves of Grief

What will you leave behind for your loved ones?

When we lose someone we love, we are left with their legacy to inspire and guide us. We begin to think about our own. How do we want to...

Nancy (not her real name of course) came to see me at my counseling office almost a year after her father died. It was expected, as he’d...

Grief is all around, once we have a reason to start looking for it. Usually, that reason is a loss of our own, when we seek to know that...

Recently, I shared here two pieces of wisdom to aid grieving: a guided meditation from Belleruth Naparstek and a practical TED-X talk by...

After a suicide, Amy Biancolli tells us, “Grief is a monster.” Having lived through the suicide of a loved one, twice, she knows. A...

Of all that we need when we are grieving, among the most immediate and rewarding is to find calm in the turbulent waters of grief. It...

I go around saying that every good story is a story about grief, without knowing if it is actually true. I’m no academic, not one to...

Once a year, a group of slow-moving people gathers in my driveway to accomplish a major feat – walking across the street. They have...

Conventional wisdom suggests that there is not much you can do about grief but sit back and suffer through it. Newer thinking disagrees,...