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Children’s Grief Awareness Day: 64 Six-Word Stories
Today is Children’s Grief Awareness Day! No worries if you have never heard of it, we are here to keep you in the know about this sort of thing. If you visit the Children’s Grief Awareness Day...
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Surviving Thanksgiving: 6 tips for grievers
You hoped and prayed, you wished on a star, you stuck your head in the sand, you ignored your calendar, and despite all your best attempts, the holiday season has still rolled in. Good effort, but...
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Thinking About Thinking (and grief): Volume II
A while back I wrote a post about how your brain can’t always be trusted. Sadly your brain can process information in ways that aren’t always helpful or accurate. It can distort reality in ways that...
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A Griever’s Pocket Guide To Spending The Holidays Alone
The other day I did a Google search looking for articles about spending the holidays alone. What I found was a shocking number of articles written by people spending the holidays alone by choice and...
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Help us keep What’s Your Grief going
Dear Grief Friends, Today is our blogiversary. It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since we posted our very first article on What’s Your Grief. Back then we were averaging about 27 page-views a...
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8 Tips For Supporting A Grieving Friend This Holiday
Most people don’t intentionally set out to be unsupportive of their grieving family and friends. We know you may disagree, but let’s be generous and give people the benefit of the doubt. It is the...
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Hang in there…
We want to take a minute (really, this will only take a minute) to remind you to hang in there. Hang in there when you struggle through making their favorite, most special recipe. Hang in there when...
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We Remember in 2016: Reader Remembrance Gallery
Litsa and I thought about writing an obligatory New Years post. Maybe ‘Top ten posts to motivate you in 2017‘ or ‘WYG’s most popular posts of 2016’ or something like that. We thought about it, we...
View ArticleCoping with Self-Doubt in the New Year
This morning Litsa and I ran our usual Thursday morning workshop at an emergency shelter in Baltimore City. We’ve been visiting this particular shelter for almost three years now, so from start to...
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Understanding The Two-Track Model of Bereavement
Today we want to fill you in on the Two-Track Model of Bereavement. Why, you ask? Because we love talking about grief theory! Why, you [emphatically] ask again? Because we believe that grief theory...
View Article12 Things Harry Potter Taught Me About Grief
If you hang out here regularly you may already know that Eleanor and I are both pretty big fans of Harry Potter. You may have been tipped off when we wrote our very own Harry Potter Grief Theory. That...
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Coping with the Conflicting Emotions of Grief
How are you feeling today? Yes…you. It’s a simple question. You’re asked a version of it every day. You know how to respond. Keep it simple. Choose a one to three word answer. Bonus points if you...
View ArticleGrieving Someone You Didn’t Like (because it happens)
Let’s be honest, sometimes people die who you…well…hated. That sounds really harsh, but sometimes it’s true. Or even if you didn’t hate the person, maybe you really didn’t like them…or you had a...
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“I should have known…”: Understanding Hindsight Bias in Grief
People have a natural tendency to sift through the ashes of tragedy in search of explanations. To quote Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl, “Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure...
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Valentine’s Day grief, in six words
We asked and you answered (as you always do!). We challenged you to share your six-word story about Valentine’s Day grief over on griefinsixwords.com. We were incredibly moved by the flood of replies...
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Using Defense Mechanisms in Grief
Defense mechanisms refer to behaviors used to protect oneself from unpleasant thoughts and emotions like guilt, anger, shame, and jealousy. Some people find these yucky emotions so unacceptable that...
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When Grief Gets Physical: dealing with physical grief symptoms
There is simply no way to anticipate what grief feels like. It is one of those experiences that you can describe to someone, but it is impossible to really understand it until you are forced to live...
View ArticleWarning: Grief Side-Effects May Include Building Emotional Walls
We’ve been a little quiet on WYG this week, but hopefully you have been keeping up over on photogrief, where we posted our posted our March challenge! In that post we challenged you to post your...
View ArticleYearning in Grief and Loss
I’m a yearner; always have been and always will be. I ache for days and moments that exist only in the past. Childhood moments mostly, the majority of which involve my mother. These memories are...
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The Grief Coaster: Understanding stress in grief
Stress is a given, whether it’s experienced in response to major life events or minor everyday occurrences. When life is going okay, your stress ebbs and flows. It’s kind of like one of those little...
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