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Happy New Year of 2025! It’s that time of year again, when I invite you to join me in a word (or a phrase) that can guide your year. The...

Consider today’s post a public service announcement: Say the name of the person who died—as often as you can and to the people who most care

In Part 2 of this blog, I begin by sharing some of the truths that I learned from Abbot Aidan, a Benedictine Monk who I cited in Part 1.

Mexico City is close to running out of water; much of what they do have is undrinkable. Water is trucked in with armed guards. Intense...

Grief can lead us into a rabbit hole of pain. More precisely, what we see around us that reminds us of our loved ones can send us into...

In my last blog post, I featured an interview with pet mom, Jackie Burke, whose precious kitty Timmy died unexpectedly from lymphoma....

There’s no doubt that the death of a precious pet can lead to ongoing grief for many pet parents. People we call pet parents may be...

When a family death occurs or when the family suffers a loss such as a health crisis or moving from one home to another, the children may...

Do you always like the way your body feels and looks in your clothes? Do you ever wish you could have different hair or just more of it?...

In my last blog, I explained what a Word of the Year is and urged you to take up this practice as one way to see life through new...

Happy New Year of 2024! The new year always brings a sense of anticipation, and we hope that the things we’ve grieved in the past...

Many of us love our pets like they’re little children. For some people, our pets are our children in that we don’t have human children to...

When we were little children, we learned about the four seasons of the year: spring, summer, fall, and winter. Depending on where we...

In everyone’s life, there are incidents that are completely unforgettable. They are so stunning that they mark a before and an after that...

Labor Day originated as a federal holiday in 1882 to honor working people. Its inception was part of a movement to give people an...

Yoga, acting, and other body movement work can be good for grief, especially griefs that stem from traumatic experiences. Some...

I’ve had many opportunities to support bereaved parents, who suffer greatly from the unnatural losses of their children. Sometimes their...

There are times in our lives when we strongly feel the deaths of others around us, the deaths of people we never knew but of whom we...

As Dr. Francis Weller points out, we also grieve for our world—for the hurt done to others, for unnecessary pain, for war, for human-caused

I like to share with other bereaved people different ways to think about their grief. One way to look at grief is to compare it with a...