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Does Your Partner Understand Your Grief?

We’ve finally made it to February after the longest January ever! And with Valentine’s Day around the corner I’m thinking about how grief impacts our romantic relationships. In all the years that I’ve...

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A Few Tips for Managing Anxiety

As someone who has been through a lot of loss, I tend to get anxious about things like the coronavirus. In case you do too, I wrote up some quick tips on managing that anxiety. For starters, it’s...

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Helpful Grief Resources For You

My basic advice is to always seek out support for grief because it can be very overwhelming and also lonely and isolating. Finding online support groups, reading books and connecting with others who...

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Hard Times Don’t Last Forever

  Every week of Covid has felt like its own year. Whatever was happening last week is different this week. I remember thinking early on that this would be an important time in our lives to learn a lot...

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Discovering Your Safe Place to Grieve

Summer is almost over and fall will be here soon. This change in season marks a transition for many of us – sometimes it’s back to school, or a change in work temp, an end to languid summer days and...

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The Conversation of a Lifetime

If you lost someone you loved today, would you feel like you’ve had as many meaningful conversations as possible with them? Of course, we could never have enough meaningful conversations with the...

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Planning Intentional Time To Sit With Your Grief

As a therapist specializing in grief, people often ask me how they can process their loss the “right” way. I understand why they want a formula for how to move through loss. Death is so disorienting....

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Getting Started With Keeping A Journal

As a writer and a therapist, I’ve always believed in the importance of journaling during the grief journey. Simply keeping a journal can help regulate emotions, provide an outlet for all the big...

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6 Things About Mother Loss That Every Therapist Should Know

  Too often, I’ve heard from women that their therapist does not understand mother loss. They feel that their ongoing grief is frequently dismissed and that the wide-reaching effects of losing a...

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Books for the Holiday Griever

Books for the Holiday Griever If you’re grieving this season, you’re not alone. Below is a curated list of books that offer comfort, understanding, and companionship through the holidays and beyond....

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