A Teen Grief Guide – What They Need (and What They Don’t)
Grief isn’t always loud, especially in teenagers. It often arrives in unexpected ways: a slammed door, a sudden silence, a burst of lau...
GRIEF COACHING
A Pack of Big Red – When Grief Finds You in the Kitchen
I wasn’t looking for a memory.
I was just cleaning the kitchen when I spotted it, tucked behind the medicines in the “miscellaneous ...
Grief Is Not a Crisis of Confidence: Reframing Loss as Love, Not Weakness
Throughout our life experiences, we are often taught to respond to grief as though it were a crisis—something to be stabilized, soothed...
Four Years Without Daddy – Walking This Grief Journey Together
Today, July 7, 2025, marks four years since Daddy went to Heaven.
It’s a day that comes with a deep heaviness—a weight that settles ...
Grief Insurance: Why People Say the Wrong Things After Loss
Navigating Hurtful Responses in Grief
When we find ourselves sharing the news that we’ve lost someone we deeply loved, the responses w...
How to Cope with Grief When the World Moves On
There’s a strange silence that settles after a loss. People return your calls less often. The meals stop showing up. The house feels fu...
The Myth of Closure in Grief: Why Love Never Truly Ends
Love’s Eternal Connection
In grief counseling, we often hear about the idea of closure — that elusive state where we “move on” and f...
The Difference Between Grief and Depression: Symptoms, Causes, and Support
When someone we love dies or a life we imagined suddenly unravels, pain follows. It’s heavy. It’s consuming. And it can feel like somet...
Stages of Grief in Adults: Emotional Healing After Loss
Grief doesn’t send a calendar invite. It barges in, sometimes quietly, sometimes like a thunderstorm, and it changes everything. If you...
I’ve Travelled a Long Way Through Life, and Some of the Roads Weren’t Paved.
I have always loved this kind of humor. Yet, years ago, I would have thought it funny because it goes against so much of the culture. ...