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A Timely and Short Discourse on Grief
I’m not one to get weepy very often, but between the death of my aunt and two men from my circle of friends with spinal cord injuries, 11 weeks of isolation, the current racial tensions ravaging ou...
Frozen Grief: Why it Matters to Global Nomads
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...
When Grief is Stirred and Re-Stirred … and Re-Stirred …
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 ...
When Grief Gets Complicated
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...
An Empty Ocean and the 10 Things We Must Remember About Grief
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...
Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint
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 ...
7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Grieving Muscles
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
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…
Refuge in Grief : grief support that doesn't suck.
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.
Holiday Grief: An Unwelcome Guest Deserving of Radical Hospitality
Grief is an emotional, mental, and spiritual wound — and this is precisely because it is a relational wound.
Stillbirth: I am a mother without a baby
BBC journalist Fiona Crack writes about her year of grief and healing after her longed-for baby daughter was stillborn