A person who is gone can live on in memory as an active agent in one’s life, not just as someone you love and miss, not just as a nostalgic sadness. – Elizabeth Harper Neeld, …

Mother Agonizes Over Pet’s Burial
Question from a reader:  I am writing in hopes that you may be able to provide advice or support that I can give my parents who just had to euthanize their 12-year-oldd …

Have you ever had an experience where you said, “Wow, what a coincidence.”  Maybe it was more.  Maybe it was actually a “synchronicity.” Let me explain through a Jungian perspective.
Carl Jung, the prominent Swiss psychiatrist, …

After my four-year-old died, I was certain my family would never be the same again. It is true and has been proven over and over that we will no longer be the typical family living …

I suppose my high school English teacher would like to think he made the biggest impression in my life. He loved to quote Shakespeare, Bryon and Keats. He could whip up a gourmet French dinner …

I Salute You
A little boy
Taken by the hand,
His father said
You will be a soldier,
A man.
Sent away
To a distant land,
He fought with courage
To prove to his father
He can.
He flew with the best,
Killed with
Tears in his eyes,
Until …

More than 10 years ago, I saw a black and white photograph by Richard Avedon that I still vividly remember. It was taken of a young boy in 1947 in Sicily. He was in the …

By Suzy Yehl Marta –
Josh was a quiet kid, a seventh grader in a mid-size, Midwest city whose parents’ divorce left him bereft. Fortunately, his school offered a peer-support group for students struggling with family transitions, …

By Anne Dionne –??
It was Mother’s Day, 2001.? The boy whom I cherished the most, my son Michael, was 19 years old and slipping out of my grasp too quickly.
Where was that little boy with …

Reviewed by Mitch Carmody –
If I were to recommend a movie to someone who is processing their loss, I would suggest ?Rumors of Angels” with Vanessa Redgrave. This movie is based on the book, ?Thy …

By Reg Green –
It may seem like?the ultimate in narcissism, but my choice for best grief film is a TV?movie that was made about my own family. It is called “Nicholas’ Gift” and is the …

Poet/writer Fran Dorf gives voice to the experience we often have when we see someone who looks like a loved one who has died. It’s a haunting, healing reminder of how grief works.