#griefwriting

What to Expect in Grief

Grief impacts us in every way: physical, emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual. There is a huge range of normal reactions depending...

Feelings in Grief

We now know that people can feel a huge range of feelings when grieving. This can include everything, not just sadness, longing and fear,...

How to Grieve

There are as many ways to grieve as there are people on earth. In fact there are more because each loss is grieved differently...

Models of Grief

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, who created the Five Stages of Grief, was a groundbreaker. She didn’t assume that dying people only felt one...

Self-care

Self-care is extremely important during grief. Self-care can increase your resources while grief drains them. What does self-care mean?...

Naming Losses

When you lost your loved one, you didn’t just suffer one loss. Each death contains multiple losses to be grieved. You can think of each...

Remembering

Writing or thinking about the person you have lost is an important part of grief. Sometimes it is easy to get stuck on the same thoughts...

When to Get Professional Help

Grief is a natural process and most people make it through without professional help. While things will never be the same as before...

Loss of Child

Those parents who have lost a child know that it may be one of the hardest experiences on earth. You will survive this death and go on,...

Loss of Partner

The death of a partner is many losses in one because a spouse or partner plays so many different roles in our life. One of the biggest...