The sorrow of loss comes to all of us. That’s universal. But how we experience it varies with remarkable diversity ...

Losing a loved one represents one of life’s most challenging experiences, with grief following unpredictable patterns that defy simple categorization into neat stages. Mental health professionals at ...

Whether one leaves a role voluntarily, is laid off, or transitions to a “better” opportunity, the experience often feels like ...

A preschooler's loss resurfaces differently as a teenager, and adults must understand that grief evolves over years, ...

Struggling to see the light after a traumatic experience? A psychologist explains the stages of grief and offers 8 practical tips to rediscover the joy of living and find peace.

When a family grieves a loss, a barrage of different emotions, reactions, and coping mechanisms will emerge, likely at different paces. The process of grief may include shutting down, crying, sleeping ...

A family gathers around a photo of the child they lost to a life-threatening illness. Friends of Karen is a non-profit that provides vital financial, advocacy, and emotional support to families ...

For much of the early twentieth century, grief was framed as a process of detachment. Healing meant “letting go,” “moving on, ...

Grief doesn’t move in straight lines. Understanding common psychological models can help you recognize where you are, and why ...

How do we mourn what we’ve lost? To the Ancient Greeks, the answer lay in elegy. Derived from the Greek word “elegos,” meaning a song of lament, elegy was a form of poetry to commemorate the loss of a ...

J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a person is dying, and how to reckon with uncomfortable feelings about death ...