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...
GRIEF REFRAMED: LIVING YOUR JOURNEY, NOT SOMEONE ELSE’S
Something we often forget is that Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's familiar five stages—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—we...
LOVE AND GRIEF: THE UNSEEN ENERGY OF LIFE
Expanding on the idea that love is energy brings to mind Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a framework that categorizes human requirements f...
LOVE: THE ESSENTIAL ENERGY, A UNIVERSAL FORCE!
Albert Einstein’s profound insights about love as a universal force resonate deeply with our lived experiences. Love is not just an abs...
LOVE IS AN ENERGY!
We grieve because we don’t know what to do with the love that we still have.
Grief is a natural expression of love that has no immedia...
STRENGTH IS NOT A CHOICE!
After my husband passed, people kept telling me how strong I was. It was infuriating, exasperating, frustrating, and every other synony...
MAY 1st – HONORING LAUGHTER, REMEMBERING LOVE
Some people have a laugh that fills the whole room. Bob had that kind of laugh. It started deep in his chest, rolled up like thunder, a...
ABSENCE IS A VERB: THE ACTIVE ROLE OF WHAT’S MISSING
Absence is often thought of as a static state — the mere lack of presence. But what if we reconsider absence as an active force, someth...
FINDING BALANCE IN THE VALLEYS OF LIFE
This balance is especially true when we go through the valleys. Grief has a way of making us yearn for the “old me,” the person we were...