Spotting Emotional Manipulation in your Support System
Today we want to talk about dealing with people who are maybe not so good for you in your grief or, oh say, life in general. These people come in all shapes and sizes, but mostly we’d like to...
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6 Things to Consider Before You Skip the Holidays
So, you are grieving and thinking about skipping the holidays altogether. Let me assure you, you wouldn’t be the first and you won’t be the last. When you are struggling with grief the prospect of...
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Life with a Grief Monster
This is my grief monster. He was born the day my mother died. I was really frightened of him at first and I thought the best thing I could do was fight him. For a long time I tried really hard to keep...
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16 Ideas for Creating New Holiday Tradition After a Death
Someone you love has died and now the holidays will never be the same. I’m sorry to put this so plainly, but it’s true and you need to acknowledge it. Too often people stumble into the holidays after...
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10 Times Grief Made you Cry this Holiday Season
It seems like the older I get, the more happy-sad life becomes. Happy-sad is my new favorite grief saying and hence forth it shall be used any time something is simultaneously beautiful and...
View ArticleHoliday Grief: When The First Holiday Is NOT The Worst Holiday
Eleanor and I had been feeling like we had said just about everything there was to say about grieving at the holidays and then yesterday our facebook page blew up with people discussing the first...
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Grief and Nutrition: Tips From A Wellness Guru
It is officially 2016. Hard to believe, right? Congrats on making it to a new year, since I am sure there were moments you struggled to imagine getting here. Now that new year is here many of us...
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Ongoing Relationships With Those who Have Died
I cling to scraps of my mother. I’ll take anything I can get. I’ve extracted all that I can from my memories; turning each one over in my mind, carefully searching for something I might have...
View Article9 Reasons It Is Not Crazy To Grieve A Celebrity Death
Raise your hand if David Bowie’s death hit you harder than you expected. Okay, I can’t see you; you can’t see me, but I assure you, my hand is raised. I had a plan for today’s post, but I can seem to...
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Grief After Traumatic Loss
Recently a reader emailed us and asked if we’d write a post about grieving a violent death. She’d been looking around the Internet for resources and information on the topic and had noticed the...
View ArticleWhen Your Best Friend Dies
We got an email last week from someone who lost a friend. Not just any friend, her best friend. The kind of friend that is family. You know the kind of friend I mean. Here is a little clip from her...
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The Truth about Posttraumatic Growth After Loss
Litsa and I have long had a bee in our bonnet over the rhetoric around grief self-help. Not all grief self-help of course, but specifically that which puts forth the notion that, with the proper...
View ArticleThe Reality of Growth and Grief: where the hell is my rainbow?
If you regularly read WYG you might have noticed that Eleanor and I can be a wee bit pessimistic from time to time. Okay, maybe a little more than a ‘wee bit’. Actually, get me and Eleanor in a room...
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Grieving the Death of a Spouse or Significant Other
Death, regardless of the details, is capable of devastating those it leaves behind. Brother, sister, son, daughter, mother, or father – all losses are significant. Although commonalities exist...
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“Maybe, someday”: Staying open to possibility in grief
It’s disgusting out today. Yesterday I sat at my window and watched charming white snowflakes fall gently from the sky, today all I see are sloppy wet raindrops pelting the ground and turning...
View Article64 Songs About The Death of a Friend
This post has been weeks in the works, a promise ever since I wrote a post a few weeks back on the death of a friend. Sorry, we have been pretty busy and I have just gotten my head back above water....
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64 Things Our Readers Would Tell Their Younger Selves About Grief
We’ve been engaged a bit of a dialogue over on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram about the things our readers would tell their younger selves about grief (either before they experienced the death of...
View ArticleHurting the Ones we Love in Grief
Confession time. Sometimes, I’m kind of a jerk. Actually, I’ve been an especially large mess during some of the years you’ve known me on this website. I don’t want to call it a mid-life crisis,...
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64 Six Word Stories About Grief
A while back we wrote a post about the six word story, the well-known writing exercise made famous through the legend that Ernest Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write a short story in six...
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Making Time for Grief During Pregnancy
Today we’d like to welcome guest author Dana Schwartz to discuss what she has learned from her experience grieving during pregnancy. As some of you know, this topic is close to my heart because I lost...
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