Instead of thinking about healing from grief, think about integrating grief.

If you want the fullness of emotions like joy, gratitude, and wonder, you also have to allow in the fullness of emotions like sadness, anger, and disappointment. Noticing where you feel resistance is one of the first steps toward making room for your sadness.

Finding meaning after loss may look different than you think.

If you sometimes feel like you’re living in two different worlds, in many ways, you are.

What are grief bursts, and how can you manage them?

The problem isn’t you.

How the passage of time both helps and hurts

When my grief was so palpable that I could barely remember how to breathe, I wrote what I needed to hear. As we honor the Winter Solstice, I offer these words to you. Perhaps they might hold something that you need to hear too.

It’s normal to have feelings of guilt and even betrayal when happiness finds you, but that is different than believing that you don’t deserve good things or pushing away joy.

Naming and understanding ambiguous loss