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Me, Myself, and I: Staying Grounded While Single and Living Abroad
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

 Taking Route is a group of expat women who want to reach out to other expat women around the globe and encourage them to take root, right where they’ve been planted.

One of the best...

Helping Children Deal With Grief
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

You can't protect your kids from the pain of loss of a loved one, but you can help build healthy coping skills which will serve them well in adulthood.

Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. –Elie Wiesel Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share ...

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,...

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...

The Center for Complicated Grief
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is a form of grief that is persistent and pervasive and interferes with functioning. It’s characterized by persistent intense yearning, longing and/or pre...

7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Grieving Muscles
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Those of you who lift weights will be familiar with “lower body” and “upper body” days. The thinking is that by targeting the lower body one day, you can rest the upper body, allowing the muscles t...

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…

When Grief Gets Complicated
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

One may ask when grief is not complicated?! The essence of grief is that it is complicated. Grief impacts many aspects of life and your sense of stability; the core of who you are is displaced.&nbs...

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 ...

God of Loss
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

COMMUNICATING ACROSS BOUNDARIES

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.