Insights on Sleep and Grief: Some suggestions
I have heard a lot about difficulties with sleep from my clients, some fighting to get a few hours each night, others sleeping way too...
We are built to grieve and survive, and even thrive, after loss
There are three things that we don’t learn until life delivers a blow: 1. Loss of the ones we love is inevitable, a sure thing, gonna...
Risk and reward: After loss, do you want to remember or forget?
There are many things that people fear about grief. One is that they will forget their loved one, the voice, the details of their face,...
You know more about grieving than you think you do
When hit by a major loss, many people feel cast off into an unfamiliar land. But it may help to know that under the surface, each of us...
Tiny Beautiful Things, a play about grief, among other things
You know those times in life when you are in between your defining events – like for author Cheryl Strayed, a devastating loss, a...
How to remember your lost loved one in a way that keeps him alive
In my counseling office, when a bereaved person came to talk, I would ask to hear about their loved one. The answers came in many forms –...
Music after loss: What is the soundtrack for your grieving?
In a time of grieving, we need all the help and comfort we can gather in. A phone call from the right person, a passage from a loved...
So Many Books, So Much Power to Help: Today, grief books for children
In counseling grad school, I had to take a course called Bibliotherapy. I was skeptical, high as I was on the electricity in the therapy...
