Handling New Year’s Alone

Many people feel that holidays such as Christmas, Hanukah, Thanksgiving, etc are the hardest to handle when experiencing grief.  Personally, I think New Year’s is one of the most challenging.  I think this is especially so if your partner has died or your relationship has ended.
Here are 3 reasons why:
New Year’s is generally talked about [...]

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Intangible Loss

Most often, when we consider grief, we associate it with something “bad” or “negative.”  Someone we love died or left.  We lost a job.  Some sort of natural disaster took our home.  We experienced a loss of health or ability.
What we don’t often consider is that grief can also occur with something we deem “good” [...]

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Weariness and Grief

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.  ~Kenji Miyazawa
When we think about the grief process, we all have different things to come immediately to mind.  Sadness and tears, rage, loneliness, confusion – just to name a quick few.
For me?
Utter exhaustion and overwhelming weariness.
For me, grief can seem like a giant [...]

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Grief Rituals for the Holidays

This title is just a tad misleading…
This article is about grief rituals.  It’s just not necessarily strictly about grief rituals during the holidays only.  It’s often discussed how painful the holiday season can be for those experiencing grief.  And that’s great – and needed!
What’s often not discussed are all those other dates throughout the year [...]

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Book Recommendation

I recently read a book titled “the gift of grief: finding peace, transformation, and renewed life after great sorrow” by Matthew D. Gewirtz.  “the gift of grief”” has its basis in the Jewish faith but anyone, regardless of their religious or spiritual beliefs, could easily relate to and connect with this book.
It is rare for [...]

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