Items Tagged With “Grief”

After a death in the family, the time comes when grieving family members begin to re-enter the routines of everyday life.

There are three types of emotional responses that can seem similar but are, in fact, quite different. 

The loss of a loved one is life’s most stressful event and can cause a major emotional crisis. After the death of someone you love, you experience bereavement, which literally means "to be deprived by death."

The death of a loved one is always difficult. For children, the death of a loved one can affect their sense of security. Like adults, children express loss by grieving. Yet children may not demonstrate the grief in the same manner as adults.

A few decades ago, children often didn’t attend funerals. The thinking was that they should be sheltered from the pain of losing a loved one. And as Americans started living longer, the need to even broach the subject of death was delayed because many grandparents survived deep into their golden years.

Some might think knowing of a loved one’s impending passing in advance somehow eases the pain, but anyone who’s experienced it would tell you it’s one of the most difficult challenges a person could ever face.

For once, we had our big dance affairs in order. Then COVID-19 changed everything. In the face of crisis, my daughter and I are realizing how parents can help their children find strength and resiliency.

After losing one of my best friends, Jason Klefisch, to suicide in June 2018, I was left with a type of grief I had never experienced before. 

Christmas mornings will never be the same.

Grief holds a brimming bucket of emotions and symptoms that go far beyond sad feelings. When Joyce suddenly lost her father last year, she learned to navigate the ups and downs of grief.

It started out like any other Saturday morning, but one phone call changed everything...forever.

Losing a loved one under any circumstances is always devastating, but an abrupt loss of a loved one to a drug overdose can be especially difficult.