Healing Grief in the Midst of a Busy Life
Ungrieved losses take a toll on our hearts and deaden us to life. We think we can avoid the pain of loss if we keep busy or close our hearts. However, the losses accumulate, and we shut down from life, from one another, and from ourselves.Suppressing our grief affects our relationships and compro...
COVID-19 World Grief: A Healthy Way to Embrace It
With the emergence of COVID-19, we have gone through massive changes in our world and a deep collective experience of loss. As the Coronavirus emptied our streets, closed our businesses, threatened our lives, and isolated us in our homes, we have experienced profound losses; now we struggle with ...
The Power of Grief to Inspire Your Marriage
Grieving is an intensely emotional and unstable process in marriage. As one or both partners grieve a loss, couples tend to downplay the extent of the stress it places on their partnership. They might not even recognize that escalation of fights or tension has its underlying source in grief.Marri...
Four Surprising Gifts of Grief
Grief is one of the most humbling and challenging experiences we go through as human beings. It is also one of the most transformative. Grief changes us. We are no longer the people we were before that loss. We see through new eyes. Since grief works so deeply and slowly within our psyches, we of...
The Gift of Embracing Our Daily Losses
Over a lifetime we will experience many losses. In every stage of life, losing, leaving and letting go are essential parts of our ever-changing world. We cannot save ourselves, nor those we love, from the sorrow that is part of life. Family members die, friends drop away, cherished possessions ar...