Making Grief Friends
Prefer to listen to your grief support? Check out our podcast: All About Grief Friends —————————————————————————– 64 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Grief, #57: Grief re-writes your address...
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A Holiday Gift Giving Guide for Grievers
Whether you are shopping as a griever or for a griever (or both!), shopping at the holidays can be tough. You are surrounded by all those happy people at the mall, struggling to find the motivation to...
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The Unprecedented Nature of Individual Grief: Trading answers for understanding
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard someone say they like ambiguity, I’d be pretty broke. Studies show that making ambiguous decisions (based on little or conflicting evidence) actually...
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The Role of the Acute Stress Response in Grief
I want you to think about the worst moment of your life. When was it? What was happening? Personally, I can think of two. When I found out my mother had terminal cancer. The morning my father...
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Grief Support Groups: Positives and Pitfalls
The suggestion to “check out a grief support group” seems to be indiscriminately offered to people after the death of a loved one. People generally consider support groups to be a reliable and valid...
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The State of Good Grief Support: Impressions from the ADEC annual conference
This past week, in a Grand Hyatt a quarter of a mile from San Antonio’s River Walk, hundreds of professionals from the fields of death, dying, grief and bereavement converged for the Association for...
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What Not to Say to a Griever: Illustrated
People mean well (usually), but sometimes well wishers choose the worst possible things to say after a death. So many of the commonly used platitudes aimed at providing comfort actually have the...
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64 Myths About Grief That Just Need To STOP
Grief myths . . . they drive me crazy. There are just so many of them, they come out in so many ways, and they make our grief so much more difficult. Friends and family have unrealistic expectations...
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Grief Myths: Illustrated
A few weeks back we published a post called 64 Myths About Grief that Just Need to Stop. Today, I’m going to illustrate a few of these grief myths because my brain is too fried right now to compose...
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Supporting a Grieving Child: The Importance of Modeling
Readers with children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews, or any child-age friend or family member, I want you to envision the following scenario: You are flipping through the television channels with...
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Are you there yet? The pressure to get over grief
Don’t you guys just love taking road trips with little kids? Without kids, who would make you stop to go to the bathroom every hour? Who would loudly argue just two feet behind your head as you...
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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“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...
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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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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How to Support a Grieving Family Member or Friend: 6 Principles
It’s common to feel anxious and intimidated in the “grief support” role. This is one of the reasons why otherwise caring people sometimes say hurtful, minimizing, or unhelpful things to their bereaved...
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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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A Holiday Gift Giving Guide for Grievers
Whether you are shopping as a griever or for a griever (or both!), shopping at the holidays can be tough. You are surrounded by all those happy people at the mall, struggling to find the motivation to...
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The Unprecedented Nature of Individual Grief: Trading answers for understanding
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard someone say they like ambiguity, I’d be pretty broke. Studies show that making ambiguous decisions (based on little or conflicting evidence) actually...
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