Today, I drove past my parents’ old house.  I was in my hometown visiting my best friend from high school and she needed to make a quick stop at her sister’s house.  Her sister happens …

Let me enjoy Christmas
I want to feel the sparkle
The white of the lights
The colors of the season.
Let me enjoy Christmas
I want to get beyond
The crowds at the mall
For all the right seasons.
Let me enjoy Christmas
I …

I often use visualisation when working with my clients. I talk with them about the feelings that they are holding in, feel unable to share, or in some cases feel pressure either spoken or unspoken …

After losing an only child, surviving each day is so very painful and difficult for single parents, and holidays make it even more excruciating.  It may seem that there is no one with whom you …

I wrote this poem over and over in my head for almost two years. I did not write it down on paper until this past August. I was with my mother, holding …

There are many obstacles that impede our ability to heal from grief. Some of these are self-imposed and others are a result of how our society handles this subject. Here are three things to keep …

Writing has always been very therapeutic for me. I enjoy writing and especially enjoy writing poems. Writing allows me to express my fears, my sadness, my anger and yes, my happiness.
Shortly, after my …

Deborah writes in: My infant grandson passed away on the day of his birth, and the anniversary is coming. Do you have any suggestions on how to celebrate this day? Mom and Dad are sooo …

Deborah writes in: My infant grandson passed away on the day of his birth, and the anniversary is coming. Do you have any suggestions on how to celebrate this day? Mom and Dad are sooo …

I Wonder
By Genesse Bourdeau Gentry –
When did sadness stop covering everything?
I don’t know.
It must have first been for moments,
then maybe hours,
days eventually.
Then for a long time
no longer ever-present,
but just below the surface
waiting for a thought …

By Pamela Prime –??
Easter and the days leading up to it are a sacred time for many. In some ways ,this is an extraordinary time, a time filled with mystery. It was a time I …

By Tom Zuba –
I believe that the death of someone we love cracks us open.? I believe it’s supposed to.
Death shatters us.? It breaks us into a million tiny pieces.? And as the minutes turn …

By Gloria Lintermans & Marilyn Stolzman, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. —
The pain of grieving is there for all losses, whether spouse or lover. A partnership transcends labels and roles and one?s partner is primary when a …

By Byron Katie –

Grief therapist Bob Baugher suggests that we not judge a man’s grief by how much — or even whether — he cries.