If your emotions have been all over the place, and you’re scrambling to cope well with change, uncertainty, and disappointment, a helpful solution is to formally acknowledge all these feelings as loss. And since you’re experiencing loss, it’s appropriate to feel grief. And since you’re feeling grief, it’s emotionally mature to move through loss and…

It happens a lot. You’re not the only one to feel like you just said the worst possible thing to someone grieving because you felt so awkward and emotional. It’s so hard because you want to say the perfect thing, but then your mouth opens or your fingers start typing and next thing you know…

Grief in teens and kids is felt and processed somewhat differently than in adults. This is okay; their thoughts and emotions are in developmental progress. So, when youth are grieving the loss of “one of their own,” some of them may attempt to isolate from adults, feeling that their grief is too different for you…

You’ve heard about the high incidences of married couples whose marriages become strained or even end when they endure something tragic, such as the loss of a child. It really isn’t surprising that men and women grieve, process, and experience emotion very differently from one another, and hardship is certainly a time the differences are revealed.…