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The Dissonance of Things Left Unsaid
I want you to imagine you’re listening to a child playing the piano. This particular child is relatively new to piano and has just started learning the complicated business playing chords. As you...
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Grieving the Death of a Grandparent
My last memories of my grandmother are from my wedding in November of 2005. To be honest, I wasn’t thinking very much about her at the time because (1) I was getting married and (2) I was still coming...
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Reconnecting with Life After Loss (One step at a time)
If you prefer to listen to your grief support, check out our podcast on this same topic. ———————————————————————— You’ve been there before. Heck, we’ve all been there. It’s been a long week, you’re...
View ArticleHow Do I Use A Belt Sander & Other Questions For My (Dead) Dad
You love someone who’s died, right? I mean, if you read or follow What’s Your Grief that seems like a safe assumption. Whoever that person is who died – your mom, son, daughter, father, grandparent,...
View ArticleYour Guide to Assessing Online Grief Support
The Internet can be an amazing source of information, inspiration, and community for people who are grieving. One can turn to the Internet, day or night, and connect with people half way across the...
View ArticleGiving Back In Grief
“We rise by lifting others” –Robert Ingersoll There’s an endless number of quotes floating around the internet about the value of helping others. Which seems like a good thing, right? They inspire us...
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What is Normal in Grief?
Here’s a test question for you: Which of the following grief related behaviors is abnormal? A. A father who visits his son’s grave every morning B. A widower who continues to wear his wedding ring 5...
View ArticleBeing there for Grieving Friends and Family: Support vs. Comfort
First and foremost, please allow me to explain what’s happening with this post. For those of you who don’t know, we’ve been doing audio podcasts for about a year now (you can check those out on...
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Lessons My Mother Never Taught Me
I’m writing this post from my front porch where I’m watching my almost nine year old daughter, Evelyn, teach my six year old daughter, Virginia to ride a bike. This afternoon has been all bad moods and...
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15 Posts to Help you Cope With Mother’s Day Grief (and 2 Announcements)
We’ve written quite a few posts related to Mother’s Day. I guess because Mother’s Day relentlessly happens once or year and because my mother died 10 years ago; I’m a mother myself; and we meet a lot...
View ArticleWhere is my Hollywood ending?: When death isn’t peaceful, serene, or good
You know I love Hollywood as much as the next person, but I’m beginning to think I can’t trust everything I see in the movies. Examples… 1. The average woman is 5’10” and weigh 110lbs, no matter their...
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Grieving a Suicide Death
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2013 there were 41,149 suicides in the United States. This rate is equal to 113 suicides each day or one every 13 minutes. Surveys have...
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Grief Landscapes
Something VERY exciting happened yesterday. VERY exciting. Okay, maybe not exciting for everyone, but exciting for us. Yesterday was day one of our first ever e-course: Exploring Grief Through...
View ArticleRelief After A Death: the unspoken grief emotion
Whenever we ask people about the emotions of grief, whether it is here on the blog, in a workshop, a group, or a class, the word relief inevitably comes up. We’ve listed it off a time or two on WYG...
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Questions of Life, Mortality and Grief
Existential angst and death anxiety run in my blood. I think I get it from my Dad’s side of the family, although it’s hard to be sure. Several of my immediate relatives have it and I’m pretty sure my...
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Grief Is More Than Sadness
There are a lot of things we love about writing a grief blog, but if I had to pick one of my favorite things about the work we do it is meeting new grief friends – lots of new, fabulous grief friends....
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An Open Letter From A Grieving Friend
Dear close friend who disappeared after someone I love died, Hey there. It’s been a while since we talked, a long while in fact. I have been thinking about it and it seems time we catch up. Let’s...
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Death, Grief, and Shattered Assumptions
“Some people’s lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That’s what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can’t process it because it doesn’t fit with what came before or...
View ArticleThe Smart Parent’s Guide to Supporting Grieving Children
Eleanor and I have been sitting around sulking because our shoestring budget prevented us from attending the National Alliance for Grieving Children conference this year, which happens to be going on...
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5 Reasons Why it Can Be Hard to Cope With Loss
A few months ago we received an email asking us to explain the difference between “grieving” and “coping”. Although these are two distinct and different undertakings, they do intertwine so I can see...
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