Articles
Grief impacts us on all levels--physically, emotionally, cognitively, mentally, spiritually. How do we navigate this new normal?
Explains how grief changes your life and creates a challenge in putting the pieces back together ... into a new puzzle
How the practice of yoga and chant helped one mother find peace in the pain surrounding the death of her child
Describes the emotions when people ask us "what's wrong" after the death of a child
Validates a father's grief, even though it may look different than a mother's
A child's death shatters us, like the shards from broken glass
Sometimes time goes slowly, sometimes it passes quickly... and sometimes, it's just about surviving each day
"Easier" is a tricky word. The death of a child is always going to be "hard". But, grief does change and evolve over time
Coming Out of the Closet I and Coming Out of the Closet II
Two back-to-back articles about the clearing out of physical space with your child's old belongings -- and the emotions that surface as a result
Describes the ebb and flow of the emotions that grief includes -- and how those feelings "dance" with one another to create the choreography of healing
Shows the need to find others who have walked this path - for comfort, validation, support, and compassion
Poem about how grief has changed us as parents
Grief Has No Closure (Fortunately)
Demonstrates that it's possible to find comfort in the fact that grief will always be a part of our new normal; and for the bereaved to see the potential of grief as a companion rather than enemy
A Letter to People in Pain: The Early Days of Grief Are a World of Their Own
Shares a beautiful and realistic analogy of what it feels like when tragedy strikes you, and when the rest of the world seems to just continue
The 5 Stages of Grief and Other Lies that Don't Help Anyone
Explains the "real" intention behind Elisabeth Kubler Ross' stages of grief theory and validates the cyclical nature of the complex emotions of being a bereaved parent.
Solving the Problem of Grief: The Solution is not What you Think
The "solution" is to not think of grief as a "problem" in the first place
5 tips to keep in mind when talking with children about death based on how well the writers of Sesame Street handled Mr. Hooper's death on the show
How to Talk to A Parent who has Lost a Child. From Someone who's Been There
Offers advice for family and friends in order to be more sensitive and understanding
A bereaved mother shares the emotions surrounding the one-year anniversary