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Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” and invented a new field within psychology to name the reality that every loss does not hold a promise of anything like resolution. Amid this pandemic,...

Frozen Grief: Why it Matters to Global Nomads
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

I was not aware of the concept of frozen grief until I stumbled across an article by Marilyn Gardner of Communicating Across Boundaries. All of a sudden pieces of the puzzle started falling into pl...

Whats your Grief - A Grief Website for the Rest of Us
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

What's Your Grief is a grief website and online community for grieving people and grief support professionals. We honor all types of loss and grief.

When Grief is Stirred and Re-Stirred … and Re-Stirred …
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Welcome to our second “Grief Week.” If you missed the first, you can read the posts here and here. COVID-19 has come with so much loss and change; Katie helps explain how your grief stirs up other ...

Grieving an Unfulfilled Dream
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

The reality of living overseas is that you are going to grieve multiple things, deeply. Anyone moving out of their passport country has a dream. Some want to help HIV patients o…

An Empty Ocean and the 10 Things We Must Remember About Grief
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Walking alone at a park, a friend of mine saw a woman busily walking towards her, dictating something into her phone. The woman looked earnest and concentrated. She came closer and closer, and as h...

When your last goodbye was your last goodbye: Processing death and life abroad
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

“Jesus looked up in the tree and said, ‘Zacchaeus, you come down . . . and I’ll give you a Snicker bar.'” -ME: circa 1976   Mary Musgrave loved that story. Not the Zacc…

Refuge in Grief : grief support that doesn't suck.
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

If your life has exploded into a million little bits, you don’t need platitudes. I made this for you: Grief support that doesn't suck.

Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

If you are going to buy only one book on grief, this is the one to get! It will validate your grief experience, and you can share it with your children. You can leave it on the coffee table so othe...

Outlawed Grief, a Curse Disguised
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Living abroad is an amazing adventure, but it comes with some baggage. And sometimes, the baggage fees are hidden, catching you by surprise, costing more than you planned.  You thought you had...

Stillbirth: I am a mother without a baby
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

BBC journalist Fiona Crack writes about her year of grief and healing after her longed-for baby daughter was stillborn

A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

An expanded edition of this classic book on grief and loss―with a new preface and epilogueLoss came suddenly for Jerry Sittser. In an instant, a tragic car accident claimed three generations of his...