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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Healing in the New Year

I love a new year, a fresh start, and a welcomed beginning. But new years are also tinged with sadness and nostalgia for me. Each new year marks another without my mom, my dad, and other beloved...

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Telling the Story of Loss

In my work, I’ve come to understand that one of the significant reasons anxiety manifests after the death of a loved one is from not allowing ourselves to fully examine the story of our loss. Some...

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A Season of Change

Hi Friends! 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...

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Meditation for Grief

Grief is an inescapable experience. Yet our first impulse to it is usually to run away from it. Facing all the painful feelings that come along with a loss can be overwhelming. Often we are...

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Summer Grief Support

Happy Summer, friends. This time of year is often relaxing, but can be stressful as well. Routines are thrown off and it’s easy to feel off-center. That’s why I want to share some Summer Grief and...

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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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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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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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Healing in the New Year

I love a new year, a fresh start, and a welcomed beginning. But new years are also tinged with sadness and nostalgia for me. Each new year marks another without my mom, my dad, and other beloved...

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Telling the Story of Loss

In my work, I’ve come to understand that one of the significant reasons anxiety manifests after the death of a loved one is from not allowing ourselves to fully examine the story of our loss. Some...

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